The Supreme Court on Monday passed judgement in the Zakia Ahsan Jafri case directing the Special Investigation Team probing Modi's role in the riots to submit its final report before a trial court.
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The judicial commission that probed the 2002 Gujarar riots said in Ahmedabad on Wednesday that there is insufficient evidence to support allegations levelled against the then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi to summon him for questioning before the panel.
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The actor, whose real name was Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed Jafri, had not been keeping well, producer Mehmood Ali, a family friend, told PTI.
'I was supposed to fly out for a film, and just a few days before, they figured out that I was on TV for seven-eight years.' 'So they said it was not going to work out.' 'That was heartbreaking.'
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The Special Investigation Team on Wednesday strongly contested the protest petition filed by Zakia Jafri against its closure report giving clean chit to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others in the 2002 post-Godhra riot case.
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An Ahmedabad court on Monday rejected Zakia Jafri's demand for access to preliminary report filed by A K Malhotra of Special Investigation Team in the Supreme Court during the inquiry into her complaint against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others with regard to 2002 riots.
The Supreme Court Thursday asked a Gujarat trial court not to pronounce its final order on the closure report of the Special Investigation Team in the 2002 Gulburg Housing Society riot case of Ahmedabad.
The Special Investigation Team which investigated complaints against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others in a riot case, told a court on that activist Teesta Setalvad might tamper with evidence if allowed to inspect original documents of the probe.
A local court on Thursday directed the Special Investigation Team, which probed the complaint against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others with regard to their alleged roles in 2002 riots, to furnish 'complete and legible copies' of the documents to Zakia Jafri, the complainant in the case.
Kailash Dhobi is one of 11 persons convicted for murder and other offences, and is listed as accused number 1 by the SIT in the Gulberg society case in which 69 persons, including former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, were killed.
'With the Special Investigation Team's closure report finding no case to be made against Modi on Zakia Jafri's complaint, the public debate has once again returned to The Narendra Modi Question.'
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Sheela Bhatt analyses the Supreme Court directive to a trial court to hear a case against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the killing of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri during the 2002 riots, its implications on Modi's future and politics in the state.
A Pakistani court on Monday admitted a new petition asking it to direct authorities to bar sacked Ambassador to the US, Husain Haqqani, from travelling outside the country.
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It is for the court and not the Supreme Court appointed Special Investigation Team to decide whether the post-Godhra riots of 2002 were a result of the Gujarat government's criminal lapse as part of a larger conspiracy or not, Zakia Jafri's lawyer said.
The probe team's chief at that time, R K Raghavan, in his new book, said it required "tremendous persuasion" to make Modi agree to a short recess. "This was possibly Modi's concession to the need for a respite for Malhotra rather than for himself. Such was the energy of the man."
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The Supreme Court appointed Special Investigation Team investigating the 2002 post-Godhra riots has summoned Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in connection with the Gulbarg Society massacre, on March 21.
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.
The Special Investigation Team probing the alleged role of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in post-Godhra killing of ex-Congress Member of Parliament Ehasan Jafri on Friday submitted its report to the Supreme Court.
The Gujarat government on Friday stated that the Supreme Court did not have the power to stay the ongoing trial in the post-Godhra communal riots case and that the Special Investigation Team instituted by it cannot summon Chief Minister Narendra Modi and other accused in the murder of ex-Congress MP Ehsan Jafri during the riots.
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Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan on Sunday shared dais with Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who had appeared before the Special Investigation Team (SIT) in connection with the 2002 riots case.
Ignoring calls of shunning a function attended by Narendra Modi, Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan on Sunday shared the dais with the Gujarat chief minister at a convocation in Gandhinagar, hours after he was questioned by Special Investigation Team in a 2002 riots case.
SIT chief RK Raghavan said that his team had arrested Erda in connection with the 2002 Gulbarg society riot case. Erda was posted at Meghaninagar police station during the 2002 riots and was incharge of the Gulbarg case, SIT member, Joint Commissioner of Police, Ashish Bhatia said
'He fondly addressed me as 'babbua' .. and with him have gone many incredible unread chapters of his and my life.'
Tehelka had recently carried out a sting operation which had exposed the alleged role of the Narendra Modi-led Gujarat government in orchestrating the 2002 riots.
The court had concluded the arguments on quantum of sentence on Friday last week after taking into consideration submissions made by both the prosecution and defence lawyers as well as the lawyer of the victims.
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee is expected to visit Iran soon, said Manbir Singh, India's ambassador to Iran.
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