The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday appointed Rajiv Ranjan Verma, a Bihar cadre Indian Police Service officer, as the fourth chief of the Special Investigation Team probing the Ishrat Jahan encounter, while coming down heavily on the Centre for adopting a "causal approach" in the case.
Setting aside the trial court order acquitting the accused, the Gujarat high court on Thursday sentenced eleven persons to life imprisonment for the murder of two persons during a 2002 post-Godhra riot at Meda Adraj village in Mehsana district.
Johri is the one who has been accused in the Sohrabuddin-Tulsiram Prajapati fake encounter case. However, the special Central Bureau of Investigation court discharged her from the case in March 2015, as the prosecution failed to obtain sanction for her prosecution from the state government.
The court of Justice Hemant Prachchhak, however, said no interim protection can be granted at this stage.
The Gujarat High Court, faced with an unprecedented situation with the state government challenging appointment of Lokayukta made by the Governor, on Monday asked the state to remove name of the Governor as respondent in the case.
Fourteen policemen involved in the Ishrat Jahan encounter on Tuesday alleged there was "serious groupism and infighting" among senior Indian Police Service officers in Gujarat, as a result of which they were being victimised and they have approached the High Court for transferring the case.
Nearly 50 people were still admitted to hospitals in Bhavnagar, Botad and Ahmedabad.
The Gujarat high court on Tuesday upheld the Prevention Of Terrorism Act court's verdict awarding the death sentence to three convicts for the 2002 Akashardham terror attack, which claimed 32 lives. The division bench of Justices R M Doshit and K M Thakar, while pronouncing the judgment, rejected the appeal of six convicts against the POTA court's verdict.
Call it a setback to Narendra Modi. The Gujarat High Court on Friday set aside the Gujarat government's order to ban Jaswant Singh's book on M A Jinnah.
The appointment of the head of special investigation team to probe the death of college student Ishrat Jahan in an allegedly fake encounter with Gujarat police appears to be jinxed as a third Indian Police Service officer expressed unwillingness to take up the job.
Trouble is brewing in Sabarmati jail in Gujarat, where over 70 per cent of the inmates have gone on a hunger strike, to protest the alleged atrocities by the jail authorities.A public interest litigation, filed by the Jan Sangharsh Manch at the Gujarat high court, has sought the removal of Jail Superintendent V Chandrashekhar.The PIL, filed on behalf of several prisoners, alleges that Chandrashekhar committed several atrocities.
It dismissed the Gujarat government's amended appeal in the case.
The Gujarat high court on Wednesday termed the 2002 post-Godhra riots as a result of "negligence of the state" and censured the state government for "inaction", holding that it led to an "anarchic" situation.
Treason charge carries death sentence as the maximum penalty while sedition is punishable up to life term.
When an accused gets attacked on the way to court, and again within the court premises, with no intervention by a judicial officer, which space is safe, asks Jyoti Punwani.
Gujarat High Court on Monday rejected the bail application of V A Rathod, an accused in the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case who was described as an "important witness" in a Central Bureau of Investigation chargesheet filed last year.
A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices P S Narasimha and Dipankar Datta took note of the submissions of lawyer Shobha Gupta that the review plea is yet to be listed.
Gujarat high court on Thursday reserved order till August 12 into the petitions demanding CBI probe in the 2004 encounter of Ishrat Jahan and three others.
The Gujarat high court on Friday rejected the plea of suspended Indian Police Service officer Sanjeev Bhatt to set aside criminal procedure initiated against him in the 1990 custodial death case.
Suspended Indian Police Service officer Sanjiv Bhatt has approached the Gujarat high court to quash a complaint filed against him for allegedly furnishing a false information with intention to evade summons. The petition filed on Tuesday is likely to come up for hearing next week.
The Gujarat government on Thursday filed an affidavit in the Gujarat high court questioning the keenness of Central government for a CBI probe on Ishrat Jahan and three others encounter.
Vedanta group chairman, Anil Agarwal, 69, is well known for his business journey from a scrap dealer from Bihar to a London-based globe-girdling metal and oil and gas conglomerate with revenues of $19 billion. Now his abilities to keep his group from over-leveraging itself will be put to the test. Over the years, Agarwal, now based in London, set up the conglomerate via acquiring iron ore producer Sesa Goa, Cairn's oil producing assets in India, and Electrosteel Steel.
The Gujarat high court on Wednesday ordered further probe into the murder of Right To Information activist Amit Jethva in view of allegations made by his father.
The Gujarat high court on Ahmedabad asked the Special Investigation Team, probing the encounter of Ishrat Jahan and three others, to submit its final report by November 18.
Gujarat high court on Thursday dismissed a Public Interest challenging the state government's decision to give further extension to Justice G T Nanavati Commission, inquiring the 2002 post-Godhra riots cases.
A division bench of the Gujarat high court on Thursday issued notices to the Central Bureau of Investigation and the state government in the 2004 Ishrat Jahan encounter case.The court began hearing the case after the Supreme Court on April 19 asked it to constitute a division bench, while acting on the petitions filed by Gopinath Pillai, father of Javed Ghulam Sheikh alias Pranesh Kumar Pillai, who was one of the three persons killed along with Ishrat.
Father of one of the persons killed in a police encounter in 2004 along with Ishrat Jahan on Friday filed an application in the Gujarat High Court demanding that hearing on his pending plea seeking Central Bureau of Investigation inquiry in the case begin at the earliest.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday ducked queries about exit polls predicting wins, in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh assembly polls, for his former ally Bharatiya Janata Party which he has vowed to defeat with the help of a united opposition in the next general elections.
The oxygen shortage was inevitable to an extent given the tsunami of Covid cases, but the problem is the lack of even basic preparation by both the Centre and states, notes Shyamal Majumdar.
The apex court observed the five Ks in Sikhism -- Kesh, Kara, Kanga, Kaccha and Kirpan -- are well established.
The collegium had recommended her transfer on August 28, after which she had made a representation requesting it to reconsider the proposal.
The top court said the faith of people in the efficacy of law is the saviour and succour for the sustenance of the rule of law.
'If it is not possible for the Indian Railways to have separate non-vegetarian and vegetarian compartments, then what is the harm in railways serving only vegetarian food?'
The Supreme Court will hear on March 27 a batch of pleas challenging the remission of sentence of 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang-rape case that also involves the killing of seven members of her family during the 2002 Gujarat riots.
Criticising the state's police, the Gujarat high court on Wednesday ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation inquiry in a case where 23 children suffering from thalassemia contracted HIV, allegedly during the routine blood transfusion procedures at the Junagadh civil hospital.
The Gujarat High Court on Friday declined to stay the fresh probe by the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team or any other process against Chief Minister Narendra Modi and 62 others in connection with the post-Godhra riots cases in 2002.
The court said that the petitioner can approach a higher court for further investigation in the case.
The Gujarat high court on Thursday ordered the transfer of the Ishrat Jahan encounter case probe to the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by former Central Bureau of Investigation director R K Raghavan
The NTA denied any irregularities and said the changes made in the NCERT textbooks and grace marks for losing time at the examination centres were some of the reasons behind the students scoring higher marks.
