Following is the timeline of events in the case in which the Supreme Court on Friday upheld the Special Investigation Team's (SIT) clean chit to then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and 63 others in the 2002 riots in the state.
Sources said the commission has completed the hearing of the matter related to the burning of the S-6 coach of the Sabarmati Express train on February 27, 2002.
In an interview to Financial Times, the prime minister also expressed 'disappointment' with Pakistan's failure to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorism.
Gujarat BJP leaders on Friday said if the physician-turned-politician, once a member of the powerful Narendra Modi ministry in the state and rising star in politics, wants to return to active politics, the saffron party will definitely assign work to her.
The commission will visit the Godhra railway station and inspect the S-6 coach of the Sabarmati Express during its one-day visit.
Idris Yusuf Mafat was arrested from Lunawada town in Panchmahal district of Gujarat.
Demanding that the Banerjee Committee report be placed on the table of the House, Mr Madhusoodhan Mistry (Congress) said, "Mr Modi should not be allowed to continue even for a single day as chief minister as he has failed to do his duty."
'While we celebrate our victories, we need to remember that not every case can go for retrial at the hands of the Supreme Court.'
The team comprises fire and other technical experts and they will probe the exact cause of the fire inside the S-6 coach of Sabarmati Express on February 27, 2002.
Rauf Abdul Majid Dhensli alias Kamli was nabbed from Satpul Odha locality in Godhra, Sub-Inspector R G Patel said.
'When the incident took place we were in the opposition. We hardly know anything about it. We will study the facts to know the truth,' the railway minister said.
Bilkis had alleged that a mob had raped and killed several of her relatives on March 1, 2002 in the post-Godhra riots.
The Gujarat Assembly on Friday passed a resolution requesting the Centre to take strict action against BBC for tarnishing the image and popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with its documentary on the 2002 riots in the state.
'We are scared. Several people have left the village out of fear of violence from the side of the convicts after their release'
Shaukat Alias Bhano Pataliya, Rafique Ahmed Ibhrahim alias Bum, and Habib alias Badshah were allegedly part of the mob that attacked the S-6 coach of the Sabarmati Express.
A sadhvi who travelled in the ill-fated Sabarmati Exress told Godhra Commission that the train was stopped for some youths who had been left behind on Godhra station.
Justice Nanavati Commission on Tuesday submitted its final report on the 2002 Gujarat riots to state Chief Minister Anandiben Patel.
The former president of Godhra municipality and was granted interim bail by a special POTA court in Ahmedabad on May 21, after his wife, Haseena, moved an application seeking a six-day bail for him.
Home Minister Amit Shah said the decision to impose the anti-terror law was taken after one of the accused, Zabir Bin Yamiun Behra, confessed in the court that the conspiracy was hatched three-four days before the carnage.
Sheila Pal, travelling from Kanpur to Vapi with her husband and daughter-in-law, deposed before K G Shah and G T Nanavati inquiry commission probing the Godhra incident that there was some scuffle at the Godhra railway platform followed by heavy ston
'My son is not against anybody. For him Desh Prem is more important than anything else in life'
The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider listing a plea challenging the grant of remission by the Gujarat government to 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gangrape case.
Atiq Ahmed is named in more than 100 criminal cases, including the recent Umesh Pal murder case
The court is likely to give its order on Tuesday on the bail pleas of Sreekumar and co-accused Setalvad, who are currently in judicial custody.
The Mumbai-based activist, currently in jail in Gujarat, has sought bail.
Setalvad was taken into custody on June 25 last year along with former Gujarat Director General of Police R B Sreekumar and ex-IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in an offence registered by Ahmedabad crime branch police for allegedly fabricating evidence to frame "innocent people" in the post-Godhra riots cases.
He told the court that he had met Kodnani at Sola Civil Hospital that morning.
The Supreme Court of India on Tuesday fixed for hearing on April 13 the plea of Zakia Jafri, wife of slain member of Parliament Ehsan Jafri, challenging the SIT's clean chit to then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 riots, saying it would not entertain any request of adjournment on the next date.
A video of the incident which occurred at around 6:25 AM shows a cow darting towards the road when it was hit by the vehicle carrying Ahmed. The cow fell near the road divider. After the incident, the vehicle stopped for a while before resuming the onward journey.
Communal violence is like a lava erupting from a volcano which scars the ground it touches, senior advocate Kapil Sibal told the Supreme Court on Wednesday while arguing for Zakia Jafri who has challenged the SIT's clean chit to 64 persons including Narendra Modi, the then Gujarat chief minister during the 2002 riots there.
The 11 convicts on Monday walked out of the Godhra sub-jail after the Gujarat government allowed their release under its remission policy.
The Supreme Court Tuesday said it would hear on October 26 a plea filed by Zakia Jafri, the wife of slain Congress leader Ehsan Jafri, challenging the Special Investigation Team (SIT) clean chit to Narendra Modi, who was the Gujarat chief minister during the 2002 riots in the state.
Yakub Pataliya, 63, was arrested from Godhra by a team of B Division police in the town after they received a tip-off that he was spotted in a locality on Tuesday, the official said.
The Supreme Court on Friday granted interim bail to social activist Teesta Setalvad, arrested on June 25 for allegedly fabricating evidence to frame 'innocent people' in the 2002 Gujarat riots cases.
An MP-MLA court in Prayagraj on Tuesday held gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed and two others guilty in the 2006 Umesh Pal kidnapping case.
For relatives of many kar sevaks who were killed in the Sabarmati Express coach fire incident in Gujarat's Godhra in 2002, the 'bhoomi pujan' for a Ram temple in Ayodhya on Wednesday brought a sense of closure to the pains of losing their near and dear ones for the cause of the temple.
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