The wife of slain former Bharatiya Janata Party minister Haren Pandya, Jagruti, on Thursday announced that she will contest polls from Ellisbridge constituency of the city on Gujarat Parivartan Party ticket to get "justice for her husband from people's court."
Gujarat High Court on Monday dropped murder charges against the 12 accused of killing former minister Haren Pandya in 2003 by upholding a trial court's verdict convicting them of criminal conspiracy and terrorism under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA).
The Gujarat High Court has dismissed the appeal of Vithal Pandya, father of Gujarat's former Home Minister Haren Pandya, demanding re-investigation and re-trial in his son's murder case.A petition filed in December last year said the Central Bureau of Investigation did not thoroughly probe the case and acted merely on tips provided by the local police.
The apex court, however, dismissed a PIL filed by NGO, Centre for Public Interest Litigation, seeking a court-monitored fresh probe in the Pandya murder case.
As the widow of slain BJP leader Haren Pandya fights a 'revenge' battle seeking "justice" for her husband for whose murder she blames Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Elliis Bridge seat is witnessing a poll contest where Jagruti Pandya expects her emotional appeal to triumph over the cold logic that favours her saffron rival.
As the widow of slain BJP leader Haren Pandya fights a 'revenge' battle seeking "justice" for her husband for whose murder she blames Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Elliis Bridge seat is witnessing a poll contest where Jagruti Pandya expects her emotional appeal to triumph over the cold logic that favours her saffron rival.
The Gujarat high court in August acquitted all the 12 accused, including main accused Ashgar Ali, in the Haren Pandya murder case. The killing of the former Gujarat home minister appeared to be an open and shut case till the probe got ambiguous, leaving many questions unanswered. Chitra Padmanabhan reports
Two others were sentenced to seven years imprisonment and one to five years imprisonment for murdering Pandya on March 26, 2003.
The Supreme Court on Thursday admitted the appeal filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Gujarat government challenging the high court's acquittal of 12 convicts in the sensational murder of former state Home Minister Haren Pandya.
Slamming the Central Bureau of Investigation for its "washed up" and "blinkered" investigations in the 2003 Haren Pandya murder case, the Gujarat high court on Monday dropped murder charges against all the 12 accused in the case.However, all the accused still face charges of attempt to murder. This means that the appeal of the accused in the murder case is partially allowed, Special Public Prosecutor J M Panchal said.
The charge sheets were filed against 21 people who were also allegedly involved in a 'large-scale conspiracy to foment terrorist activities' in Gujarat.
Ali is the prime accused in the murder of the former home and revenue minister of Gujarat. He was arrested in Hyderabad.
Gujarat government on Tuesday informed the high court that it would move the Supreme Court against its order of dropping murder charges against the accused in the Haren Pandya murder case.
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The Central Bureau of Investigation should take Haren Pandya murder case to the Supreme Court in appeal, Gujarat government's spokesperson Jay Narayan Vyas said in Ahmedabad on Wednesday.
In fresh problems for Narendra Modi, a member of the people's tribunal that visited Gujarat after 2002 riots said former home minister Haren Pandya had told them that the chief minister allegedly directed the police to give Hindus a free hand to vent their anger during the riots.
Jagruti Pandya, wife of slain former Bharatiya Janata Party minister Haren Pandya, has decided not to go to the venue of Chief Minister Narendra Modi's fast -- to hand over a memorandum seeking justice for her husband -- after speaking to senior party leader L K Advani over phone on Saturday.
The sister of slain former Gujarat minister Haren Pandya on Friday sought reinvestigation into her brother's killing arguing that it was a political murder and the real killers are still roaming free.
Alleging that the erstwhile National Democratic Alliance government at the Centre was responsible for lapses in Central Bureau of Investigation probe into Haren Pandya murder case, former minister Gordhan Zadafiya on Tuesday appealed to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to ask the agency for a re-investigation.
The Gujarat high court on Monday disposed of a petition seeking re-investigation in the murder of former Gujarat minister Haren Pandya on the ground that an appeal in this regard was pending with the Supreme Court.
Suspended IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt on Tuesday told the Gujarat high court that Chief Minister Narendra Modi and former Minister of State for Home Amit Shah had tried to pressurise him to destroy crucial evidence in the Haren Pandya murder case.
The Central Bureau of Investigations will file a special leave petition against the Gujarat high court order in the murder case of former home minister of Gujarat Haren Pandya. Slamming the Central Bureau of Investigation for its "washed up" and "blinkered" probe in the 2003 murder, the Gujarat HC on August 29 dropped charges against all 12 accused.
After spending five years in jail, Maulana Mohammad Naseeruddin was granted bail by the Supreme Court. He spoke to Vicky Nanjappa about his detention and the charges against him.
After spending five years in Ahmedabad's Sabarmati Jail and facing trial for his alleged involvement in former state home minister Haren Pandya's murder, Hyderabad cleric Moulana Mohammed Naseeruddin has been granted bail by the Supreme Court.A division bench comprising Justice M Katju and Justice Ashok Kumar Ganguli granted bail to the Moulana after a seven month long proceeding in the apex court.
"The family has made a representation to our officers that women were not allowed to wear 'purdah' and their religious sentiments were hurt by this," Hyderabad Police Commissioner B Prasad Rao told rediff.com when asked about the complaints of Moulana Naseeruddin's wife Tasneem Fatima that about 50 policemen in plainclothes had barged in to her home when no male member.
Investigating agencies have also found several books and notes belonging to Nasir in which he has scribbled 'jihad is in my blood' and 'jihad mix my blood'.
According to the confessions made by Jaber, son of Moulana Nasirrudin, an accused in the Haren Pandya murder case, Safdar Nagori, the chief of the banned outfit had visited Hyderabad to zero down on a location to set up a terror training camp.
As the astronaut visits the Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad accords her a rock star-like reception, which also turned out to be a logistical nightmare.
Sharp shooter Asgar Ali and four persons arrested from Hyderabad, four agents of the Pakistan-based Inter-Services Intelligence and three persons from Ahmedabad, who were arrested by the city crime branch, were booked under the act.
"We can say with confidence that Ashgar Ali is the main killer. He pulled the trigger," CBI Director P C Sharma said at a press conference.
Haren Pandya's wife said the CBI neither recorded her side of the story nor asked her to appear before the POTA court.
The wife of Moulana Nasirrudin, who is in the custody of the Gujarat police in connection with the Haren Pandya murder case, has written to the Andhra Pradesh high court seeking to produce her son Jabir before the court. In a letter written to the Andhra Pradesh high court, Tasneem has stated that her son has been missing since the past two days.
The old city of Hyderabad was tense on Wednesday after a police team comprising nearly 50 persons raided the house of Moulana Nasiruddin, who is in custody of the Gujarat police, allegedly for the murder of former Home Minister Haren Pandya.
The IB says that Hamza was the man behind the murder of Gujarat Home Minister Haren Pandya in 2003.
Vithal said that during Sunita will also visit her ancestral village Jhulasan in Mehsana district in Gujarat
Justice J R Vora and Justice M R Shah, in their order on Wednesday, said that as the Chief Minister was not a respondent or a party in the murder case of the former minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Haren Pandya, he had no locus in this case at this stage. Demanding re-investigation in the murder case, petitioner Vitthal Pandya had filed a 200-page appeal in the High Court, expressing his dissatisfaction over the Central Bureau of Investigation probe.
While Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi unfurled the tricolour at Patan, the Congress organised a parallel function at Gandhinagar.
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