'One can understand this prejudice in the minds of policemen against Muslims, without accepting it. But what tilts the balance disproportionately is the police's blind eye to offences committed in the name of the majority.' says Jyoti Punwani.
Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi has been able to overcome a sustained campaign against him over the 2012 Gujarat riots, in which a section of the media had also targeted him, believes senior party leader Arun Jaitley.
Union minister Jairam Ramesh termed the 1984 anti-Sikh riots as a "blot" on the country and the Congress and suggested that more needs to be done for the victims and to bring the guilty to book.
'I don't believe the talk of free will.' 'They are either forced to dress like this, or indoctrinated.'
Ending a nine-year-long boycott after the 2002 Gujarat riots, the United States opened a channel of communication with Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi on Thursday, when America's envoy Nancy Powell met the Gujarat strongman.
The SC has stayed the arrest of social activist Teesta Setalvad and her husband till Friday.
"We are very willing to interact with him (Modi) at the first given opportunity and would like to take forward business relations. Would also say that everybody is welcome to Europe," Belgium Consul general to Mumbai Karl Van den Bossche told media persons in Ahmedabad on a question about Modi.
The Congress on Friday raked up the post-Godhra riots issue against Narendra Modi, latching onto the claims by former Research and Analysis Wing chief A S Dulat to demand that the prime minister apologise for the communal violence in 2002.
Pleading for maximum punishment, the prosecution said capital punishment could be considered by the court or the convicts be sent to jail and ordered to remain there till their last breath.
The court said it has decided to award imprisonment for life without any time frame to the 11, who have been convicted for murder, while requesting the state not to use its power to remit the sentence after 14 years of imprisonment.
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Wednesday alleged that some former prime ministers had compromised the country's 'deep assets' on national security but refrained from naming them.
'The cow is sacred to many of us, but these killings are definitely not part of the Hinduism we know and practise,' says Jyoti Punwani.
Of the 24 convicted, 11 have been convicted for murder and 13 for other charges.
'1984 is important as it is the beginning of the State making war against its citizens in India.' 'Since then, we had the government of the day organising riots or genocide by attacking certain people.'
A US court has asked the State Department to respond by December 10 to the objections raised by a rights group over the immunity granted to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in connection with a lawsuit filed against him for his alleged role in the 2002 Gujarat riots.
He said the "countdown has begun for Narendra Modi," citing the results of Rajasthan by-polls in which the ruling BJP faced an embarrassing defeat at the hands of the Congress which won two Lok Sabha seats and one assembly segment.
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