Godhra riots News

In a podcast with Lex Fridman, Modi said the perception that the 2002 riots were the biggest riots ever in Gujarat was an attempt to push misinformation.

A three-judge bench of Justices B R Gavai, A S Bopanna and Dipankar Datta set aside the order of the Gujarat High Court rejecting activist Teesta Setalvad's plea for regular bail.

BREAKING: Teesta Setalvad's bail plea has been rejected, Teesta Setalvad is accused of fabricating false evidence in Gujarat riots. The Gujarat HC ordered him to surrender immediately.

Politics is at its peak after the Balasore accident. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee raised the issue of Godhra on the pretext of Balasore. Without taking the name of PM Modi, he said that many accidents happened during your time too but no one raised an issue. On this, Union Minister Ramdas Athawale retaliated, saying that the opposition has no issue to surround the government. Watch today's debate on this big issue in Kasam Samvidhan Ki.

Politics is at its peak after the Balasore accident. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee raised the issue of Godhra on the pretext of Balasore. Without taking the name of PM Modi, he said that many accidents happened during your time too but no one raised an issue. On this, Union Minister Ramdas Athawale retaliated, saying that the opposition has no issue to surround the government. Watch today's debate on this big issue in Kasam Samvidhan Ki.

Godhra riot rape victim Bilkis Bano on Wednesday approached the Supreme Court against the premature release of 11 men who had gang-raped her and murdered her family members during the 2002 Gujarat riots.

After an impressive show in last year's civic body polls in Godhra, AIMIM is now trying to build upon those gains in the Assembly elections The All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen is banking on the minority base and division of votes of other candidates It had won seven seats in the Godhra Municipal Council polls last year and even tied up with independents to keep the BJP out of power

A bench comprising Chief Justice SA Bobde and justices BR Gavai and Surya Kant divided the convicts in two groups and said one group would move out of Gujarat and stay at Indore in Madhya Pradesh. 

The first part of the Justice Nanavati-Mehta Commission report was earlier tabled in the Assembly on September 25, 2009.

Godhra town falls under Panchmahal Lok Sabha seat, which goes to polls on April 23 along with 25 other parliamentary constituencies in Gujarat. All the seats are currently held by the BJP.

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

The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed RK Raghavan, who was heading the apex court appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe 2002 Gujarat riots cases, to be relieved from the duty of heading the team.

Sabarmati Express was torched at the Godhra Railway Station on February 27, 2002.

The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a Gujarat lower court to complete the trial of the 2002 Naroda Gam massacre case within six months.

The Gujarat High Court today sentenced seven persons to life imprisonment in a case related to the 2002 post-Godhra riots at Viramgam in the district where three people had been killed.

A convict in the 2002 Gulberg society massacre case, who had jumped the temporary bail granted to him in December last year, today surrendered before a special SIT court here.

Indians joining al Qaeda were moved by the 1992 Babri mosque demolition and 2002 Godhra riots and were committed to establish base of terror outfit al Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) here, Delhi Police has told a court here.

An Ahmedabad court had convicted 24 of the 66 accused in the 2002 post-Godhra Gulbarg society riots case.

The ghastly train attack had triggered widespread riots in Gujarat in which over 1,000 people were killed.