2002 riots News

The Ministry of External Affairs also issued a statement reacting to the BBC documentary, calling it a "completely biased copy".

Bilkis Bano was a 21-year-old pregnant woman who was gang-raped while fleeing the 2002 Gujarat riots In January 2008, a special CBI court in Mumbai sentenced 11 men to life imprisonment for their involvement in the attack However, on August 15, these 11 men were released from the Godhra sub-jail after the Gujarat government applied its remission policy

AIMIM chief lashed out at Home Minister Amit Shah for his statement on the 2002 riots Owaisi also made a pitch for its nominee Zainab Sheikh from the Vejalpur constituency

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said demand was being raised to remove Modi as Gujarat chief minister, the PTI news agency reported.

Nanavati Commission gives clean chit to former Gujarat CM Narendra Modi on 2002 riots.

There are significant differences in the context of the two incidents of violence.

In a relief to the Gujarat government, the Supreme Court on Tuesday set aside the High Court order asking the state government to restore the religious structures damaged during the 2002 post-Godhra riots.

An accused in a post-Godhra riots case in Ode village of Anand district of Gujarat was on Wednesday brought from London, where he was arrested, and produced before a local court, which remanded him in 14-day judicial custody.

The verdict in Gulberg Society riot case on Thursday sparked a war of words between BJP and Congress in Gujarat with the ruling party terming the judgement as a "clean chit" to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Opposition accusing the then state government of "inciting" people to kill minority community members during the riots.

The Congress too on Thursday sought to echo its former MP Ehsan Jafri's widow Zakia Jafri's description of a Gujarat court verdict in the Gulberg Housing Society massacre in Ahmedabad as "half justice" to the victims.

Fourteen years after an armed mob set ablaze the Gulberg Housing Society, massacring 69 people a special Gujarat court on Thursday convicted 24 people but rejected the serious prosecution charge of conspiracy.

Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, vice president Rahul Gandhi and other party leaders on Tuesday marched from Parliament House to Rashtrapati Bhavan.

The Congress on Tuesday said their march to the Rashtrapati Bhawan was an attempt on their behalf to show the nation who was behind the stoking of communal flames, and warned Prime Minister Narendra Modi that his 'silence' was encouraging communal tendencies in the nation.

Congress chief Sonia Gandhi will request President Pranab Mukherjee to invoke his constitutional powers to stem the "atmosphere of intolerance" across the country.