The affidavit had detailed the carnage and named some of the accused in the Best Bakery case.
Zahira alleged that Setalvad had amassed huge wealth by illegal means.
The petition mentions that the scope of inquiry of the Banerjee Committee "extends to more than two states."
In Mumbai court, Zahira and her two brothers turned hostile and did not support the prosecution case saying that they did not see the mob setting the bakery on fire.
It suspects Narpatsinh Patel, Head Constable of Randhikpur outpost, of tampering with evidence in a gang rape case during the post-Godhra riots.
It took exception to the delay in appointment of a public prosecutor in the Best Bakery case trial.
A Magistrate court in Ahmedabad is likely to pronounce on Thursday its order on Zakia Jafri's petition against the closure report of the Special Investigation Team which had probed the Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's role in the post-Godhra riots in 2002.
Under attack from rivals over the "puppy" remark, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said all forms of life are valued and worshipped in Indian culture, in an apparent bid to assuage feelings of the Muslim community.
The Supreme Court has put a question mark over the role of state police in the Naroda Patiya riots case. \n
He wanted the money the latter had received as compensation in the aftermath of the post-Godhra communal riots.
The Gulberg massacre case verdict on Friday sparked a war of words between the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress, with both the parties accusing each other of trying to turn the issue into a tool for their own political advantage.
Union Minister Salman Khurshid on Saturday said the Congress could consider extending support to the Third Front or taking its help, if necessary to form the government at the Centre after the Lok Sabha polls.
They are the last of 20 people facing charges in connection with the rape and killings that followed, to surrender or be arrested.
Nasibullah, brother of prime witness in Best Bakery case Zaheera Shaikh, on Thursday retracted his police statement.
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Bilkis, whose cross-examination was concluded on Thursday, had earlier identified in the court the 12 accused.
Bano is ready for a new beginning and is hoping to see her elder daughter become a lawyer.
The Commission, comprising Justice (retd) G T Nanavati and justice (retd) K G Shah, on Thursday summoned her after it heard an application filed by her advocate Atul Mistry.
The committee, which began its probe on April 6, has been entrusted to find out in four months who was telling the\ntruth -- Zahira or Teesta.
I A Syed, a Gujarat policeman, was arrested on Friday for allegedly suppressing and destroying evidence in the gangrape and massacre case during the post-Godhra communal riots.
The ruling came on a CBI plea that the district court in Ahmedabad did not have jurisdiction to hear the case.
According to a survivor, there were at least 18 people on board the state transport bus.
"He [Vajpayee] did not do anything effective. I had sent him letters. I had talked to him directly," Narayanan said in a freewheeling interview to Congress MLA P T Thomas carried in a recent issue of Malayalam magazine Manava Samskriti.
Forty residents of the Ahmedabad society, including former Congress Member of Parliament Ehsaan Jafri, were killed in the post-Godhra massacre.
The government on Friday ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation into transfer of funds by United States-based Ford Foundation to Sabrang Communication and Publishing Pvt Limited, with which social activist Teesta Stelvad is associated, allegedly in violation of rules and froze a bank account of the firm.
Union Minister Salman Khurshid on Tuesday described Narendra Modi as "impotent", a remark that invited a sharp condemnation from the BJP.
The BJP leader from Bihar sought to compare his defeat in Kishanganj LS seat to that of Congress' Buta Singh after the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
Additional CBI Director P C Pande is under scrutiny in connection with his role as Ahmedabad police commissioner during the post-Godhra riots.
A United States court has granted 15 days to the petitioners to respond to the State Department's "suggestion of immunity" to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in an alleged human rights violation case.
The video was shot by cameraman Gautam Chauhan, who has already deposed before the court.
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