"There is no need for Modi to resign. The Gujarat government will take note of the observations made by the apex court and act accordingly," party chief M Venkaiah Naidu told reporters in New Delhi.
Key Best Bakery witness Zaheera Sheikh had moved the apex Court seeking retrial of the case at any place outside Gujarat.
National Human Rights Commission chairman Justice A S Anand on Monday declined to comment on the Bharatiya Janata Party's criticism of the NHRC's move to seek a retrial in the Best Bakery and four other Gujarat riots case.
Kanwaljit Deol, joint commissioner, will be part of the committee headed by Registrar General B M Gupta to probe the veracity of the charges and counter-charges made by Zahira Sheikh and Teesta Setalvad.
The court also imposed a fine of Rs 500, failing which, Zaheera will have to undergo another 10-days of rigorous imprisonment.
Zaheera Sheikh had accused Madhu Shrivastava of threatening her.
The judge had read out the charges to Zaheera on the last occasion and explained the accusations against her and other members of her family.
Sehrunnisa Sheikh was held guilty of contempt of court.
The judge also ordered that Zaheera might be given a set off for the period she has already spent in prison after her surrender before the court recently.
Best Bakery key witness Zaheera Sheikh, who was handed down a one-year imprisonment by the Supreme Court for committing contempt by lying before it, Monday moved the apex court seeking reduction of her sentence.
Earlier, Zaheera had told the court that she did not want to serve the sentence in a Gujarat prison and would like to be in a Maharashtra jail.
The Supreme Court got the gangrape case to Maharahtra to Gujarat.
Fast track court judge H U Mahida, who had acquitted all the 21 accused in the Best Bakery case, has declined the post of honorary legal advisor to the Gujarat Electricity Board citing "personal reasons"
The key witness in the Best Bakery case alleged that witnesses were coerced to change their statement.
The Gujarat chief minister said NGOs and human rights bodies do not even hesitate to point fingers at the judiciary.
Vadodara Police Commissioner S K Sinha told PTI that Zaheera and her family are at a completely safe location."
The Central Bureau of Investigation has chargesheeted 20 people, including six policemen.
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'...to give a benevolent interpretation of the statutes, and to protect the weak and the victims. The aim is to make justice reach all the people,' says former Chief Justice V N Khare.
A bench comprising Chief Justice V N Khare, Justice S B Sinha and Justice A R Lakshmanan directed the state government to file in a sealed cover a report detailing the status of each of these cases and the witnesses named there in by October 31.
'I have faced 18 hours of darkness daily all my life.'
Rohatgi was in June, 2014 appointed as the country's chief law officer for a fixed three-year term.
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He said he considers this duration as enough and would like to return to his practice.
Food in India has fled the confines of the kitchen and become a national adventure... Food shows, now even on news channels, have transformed restaurateurs from humble khansamas to courted celebrities.
Jail inmates produced goods generating gross sales worth Rs 223.4 crore in 2020, according to the government's annual Prison Statistics India report. The amount ranks at 496th place if compared with the latest net sales numbers of S&P BSE 500 companies, reports Sachin P Mampatta.
Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi was on Thursday appointed as the new Attorney General and will have a tenure of three years. The law ministry issued a formal notification appointing him as the top law officer of the National Democratic Alliance government.
Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi will be the new Attorney General of India following change in the government at the Centre.
Prachi Dhabal Deb, who began her career as a financial analyst, but found her heart in the field of confectionery art.
'I worked over 100 times more to prove I wasn't a madamji doing this as a hobby.'
The long queue outside Cellular Jail is a testimony to its place in India's national consciousness. The Andamans is also where the only British viceroy was assassinated and where Bose unfurled the Tricolour for the first time in 1943.
Soorarai Pottru HELD A Ganesh Nadar'S attention till the last frame.
The Indian cricketers are making most of a rare vacation on an overseas tour.
Britannia, which is celebrating its centenary year in 2018, will first look at expanding its dairy and bakery businesses, before turning its attention towards new food categories. The attempt is to become a total foods company, as it eyes a well-rounded presence in the market.
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