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  • Gujarat riots proof falsification case: Court docket rejects former DGP Sreekumar’s discharge petition

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    AHMEDABAD: A classes courtroom in Ahmedabad Monday rejected an utility via former DGP R B Sreekumar in the hunt for discharge in a case registered towards him for fabricating proof of a conspiracy in the back of the 2002 riots so as to falsely implicate folks together with Top Minister Narendra Modi.

    Sreekumar asked discharge at the grounds that he have been falsely accused and had not anything to do with Zakia Jafri’s enchantment towards the SIT’s closure file. Even though nobody used to be named within the Ideally suited Court docket determination, the FIR towards him and others used to be filed in haste.

    On Monday, The classes Court docket whilst rejecting Sreekumar’s discharge utility noticed that the “Prosecution in its case has submitted sufficient proof which essentially constructed the case towards the applicant, essentially there may be sufficient proof to run an ordeal towards the applicant, the prosecution has submitted an audio tape of the dialog between the applicant and someone else the voice of utility has been showed via Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) which provide enough explanation why to the courtroom to reject utility discharge utility,”

    ALSO READ | 2002 Gujarat riots: Gujarat HC grants intervening time bail to ex-DGP RB Sreekumar

    Previous, Sreekumar Claimed that the accusations towards him had been supported via his affidavits supplied to the Nanavati-Shah fee which used to be probing the 2002 Gujarat riots. They’re unconvincing since he’s secure below Phase 6 of the Fee of Inquiries Act. Moreover, no required sentence below Phase 197 of the CrPC has been imposed on him. Sreekumar additionally denied tutoring witnesses and forgery allegations towards him. Moreover, he asserted that Setalvad used to be the objective of a grudge held via witness Raees Khan and that his accusatory observation may just no longer be taken severely.

    Particular prosecutor Amit Patel Instructed TNIE that, “Ahmedabad classes courtroom on Monday rejected an R B Sreekumar’s utility at the foundation of the proof supplied via the Prosecution,”

    On June 25, 2022, Sooner or later after Zakia Jafri’s enchantment towards the closure file submitted via the particular investigation crew (SIT) used to be rejected via the Ideally suited Court docket, the town crime department filed an FIR charging Sreekumar, social activist Teesta Setalvad, and every other ex-IPS officer, Sanjiv Bhatt.

    Sreekumar and Bhatt had charged the 3 for offences below IPC sections 120B (legal conspiracy), 468 (forgery), 471 (the use of as authentic a solid report or digital document), 194 (giving or fabricating false proof with intent to obtain conviction of capital offence), 211 (false price of offence made with intent to injure) and 218 (public servant framing improper document or writing with intent to avoid wasting an individual from punishment or assets from forfeiture). 

    AHMEDABAD: A classes courtroom in Ahmedabad Monday rejected an utility via former DGP R B Sreekumar in the hunt for discharge in a case registered towards him for fabricating proof of a conspiracy in the back of the 2002 riots so as to falsely implicate folks together with Top Minister Narendra Modi.

    Sreekumar asked discharge at the grounds that he have been falsely accused and had not anything to do with Zakia Jafri’s enchantment towards the SIT’s closure file. Even though nobody used to be named within the Ideally suited Court docket determination, the FIR towards him and others used to be filed in haste.

    On Monday, The classes Court docket whilst rejecting Sreekumar’s discharge utility noticed that the “Prosecution in its case has submitted sufficient proof which essentially constructed the case towards the applicant, essentially there may be sufficient proof to run an ordeal towards the applicant, the prosecution has submitted an audio tape of the dialog between the applicant and someone else the voice of utility has been showed via Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) which provide enough explanation why to the courtroom to reject utility discharge utility,” googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-1687167573941-0’); );

    ALSO READ | 2002 Gujarat riots: Gujarat HC grants intervening time bail to ex-DGP RB Sreekumar

    Previous, Sreekumar Claimed that the accusations towards him had been supported via his affidavits supplied to the Nanavati-Shah fee which used to be probing the 2002 Gujarat riots. They’re unconvincing since he’s secure below Phase 6 of the Fee of Inquiries Act. Moreover, no required sentence below Phase 197 of the CrPC has been imposed on him. Sreekumar additionally denied tutoring witnesses and forgery allegations towards him. Moreover, he asserted that Setalvad used to be the objective of a grudge held via witness Raees Khan and that his accusatory observation may just no longer be taken severely.

    Particular prosecutor Amit Patel Instructed TNIE that, “Ahmedabad classes courtroom on Monday rejected an R B Sreekumar’s utility at the foundation of the proof supplied via the Prosecution,”

    On June 25, 2022, Sooner or later after Zakia Jafri’s enchantment towards the closure file submitted via the particular investigation crew (SIT) used to be rejected via the Ideally suited Court docket, the town crime department filed an FIR charging Sreekumar, social activist Teesta Setalvad, and every other ex-IPS officer, Sanjiv Bhatt.

    Sreekumar and Bhatt had charged the 3 for offences below IPC sections 120B (legal conspiracy), 468 (forgery), 471 (the use of as authentic a solid report or digital document), 194 (giving or fabricating false proof with intent to obtain conviction of capital offence), 211 (false price of offence made with intent to injure) and 218 (public servant framing improper document or writing with intent to avoid wasting an individual from punishment or assets from forfeiture). 

  • Custodial loss of life: SC tells Gujarat to answer on ex-IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt’s plea

    Through PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Ideally suited Courtroom on Tuesday directed the Gujarat executive to report its answer on a petition via sacked IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt to publish further proof to enhance his attraction within the Gujarat Top Courtroom towards his conviction in a 1990 custodial loss of life case.

    Bhatt has filed an attraction within the prime court docket difficult his conviction within the custodial loss of life case of Prabhudas Vaishnani, who was once stuck via Jamnagar police after a communal rebel.

    A bench comprising Justices MR Shah and CT Ravikumar stated no formal realize is needed to be issued within the subject as senior suggest Maninder Singh has already seemed for the state.

    The highest court docket requested the state executive to report its answer via April 11 and posted the subject for listening to on April 18.

    Senior Recommend Devadatt Kamat, showing for Bhatt, submitted the Gujarat executive has now not filed its answer in spite of looking for a number of adjournments.

    ALSO READ | Centre nonetheless fears jailed Sanjiv Bhatt, says spouse

    In August 2022, Bhatt had withdrawn his plea within the apex court docket looking for suspension of his existence sentence within the 30-year-old custodial loss of life case.

    The prime court docket had previous refused to droop Bhatt’s sentence and seen he had had scant admire for courts and intentionally attempted to misuse the method of regulation.

    He was once sentenced to existence imprisonment in June 2019 within the case.

    The case pertains to the custodial loss of life of Prabhudas Vaishnani, who was once amongst 133 other folks stuck via Jamnagar police after a communal rebel broke out following a bandh name in view of BJP chief L Ok Advani’s Rath Yatra.

    Due to this fact, his brother lodged an FIR accusing Bhatt, who was once then posted as further superintendent of police in Jamnagar, and 6 different policemen of torturing Vaishnani to loss of life in custody.

    NEW DELHI: The Ideally suited Courtroom on Tuesday directed the Gujarat executive to report its answer on a petition via sacked IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt to publish further proof to enhance his attraction within the Gujarat Top Courtroom towards his conviction in a 1990 custodial loss of life case.

    Bhatt has filed an attraction within the prime court docket difficult his conviction within the custodial loss of life case of Prabhudas Vaishnani, who was once stuck via Jamnagar police after a communal rebel.

    A bench comprising Justices MR Shah and CT Ravikumar stated no formal realize is needed to be issued within the subject as senior suggest Maninder Singh has already seemed for the state.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    The highest court docket requested the state executive to report its answer via April 11 and posted the subject for listening to on April 18.

    Senior Recommend Devadatt Kamat, showing for Bhatt, submitted the Gujarat executive has now not filed its answer in spite of looking for a number of adjournments.

    ALSO READ | Centre nonetheless fears jailed Sanjiv Bhatt, says spouse

    In August 2022, Bhatt had withdrawn his plea within the apex court docket looking for suspension of his existence sentence within the 30-year-old custodial loss of life case.

    The prime court docket had previous refused to droop Bhatt’s sentence and seen he had had scant admire for courts and intentionally attempted to misuse the method of regulation.

    He was once sentenced to existence imprisonment in June 2019 within the case.

    The case pertains to the custodial loss of life of Prabhudas Vaishnani, who was once amongst 133 other folks stuck via Jamnagar police after a communal rebel broke out following a bandh name in view of BJP chief L Ok Advani’s Rath Yatra.

    Due to this fact, his brother lodged an FIR accusing Bhatt, who was once then posted as further superintendent of police in Jamnagar, and 6 different policemen of torturing Vaishnani to loss of life in custody.

  • SC to represent particular bench to listen to Bilkis Bano’s plea towards remission to convicts

    By means of PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Excellent Courtroom on Wednesday agreed to represent a distinct bench to listen to a plea through Bilkis Bano, who used to be gang-raped all the way through the 2002 Gujarat riots, towards the remission of the sentence of eleven convicts within the case.

    A bench of Leader Justice DY Chandrachud and justices PS Narasimha and JB Pardiwala confident Bano, represented thru her attorney Shobha Gupta, that the brand new bench will likely be shaped.

    Gupta discussed the topic for pressing listening to and mentioned {that a} new bench must be constituted.

    “I will be able to have a bench constituted. Will have a look at it this night time,” the CJI mentioned.

    Previous, on January 24, the listening to on Bano’s plea difficult the remission of sentence of eleven convicts within the gang-rape case through the Gujarat executive may now not be held within the best court docket because the judges involved have been listening to an issue associated with passive euthanasia as a part of a five-judge Charter bench.

    But even so the plea difficult the discharge of the convicts, the group rape survivor had additionally filed a separate petition in the hunt for a overview of the apex court docket’s Would possibly 13, 2022 order on a plea through a convict.

    Seven contributors of Bilkis Bano’s circle of relatives have been additionally killed all the way through the 2002 Gujarat riots.

    In its Would possibly 13, 2022 order, the apex court docket had requested the state executive to imagine the plea of a convict for untimely free up in relation to its coverage of July 9, 1992, which used to be appropriate at the date of conviction and come to a decision it inside of a length of 2 months.

    All 11 convicts have been granted remission through the Gujarat executive and launched on August 15, remaining yr. Bano’s overview plea towards the Would possibly 13, 2022 order, then again, used to be brushed aside through the highest court docket in December remaining yr.

    Will struggle once more, towards what’s flawed: Bilkis Bano on remission given to her rapists

    Bilkis Bano case convict booked for outraging girl’s modesty whilst on parole in 2020

    NEW DELHI: The Excellent Courtroom on Wednesday agreed to represent a distinct bench to listen to a plea through Bilkis Bano, who used to be gang-raped all the way through the 2002 Gujarat riots, towards the remission of the sentence of eleven convicts within the case.

    A bench of Leader Justice DY Chandrachud and justices PS Narasimha and JB Pardiwala confident Bano, represented thru her attorney Shobha Gupta, that the brand new bench will likely be shaped.

    Gupta discussed the topic for pressing listening to and mentioned {that a} new bench must be constituted.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    “I will be able to have a bench constituted. Will have a look at it this night time,” the CJI mentioned.

    Previous, on January 24, the listening to on Bano’s plea difficult the remission of sentence of eleven convicts within the gang-rape case through the Gujarat executive may now not be held within the best court docket because the judges involved have been listening to an issue associated with passive euthanasia as a part of a five-judge Charter bench.

    But even so the plea difficult the discharge of the convicts, the group rape survivor had additionally filed a separate petition in the hunt for a overview of the apex court docket’s Would possibly 13, 2022 order on a plea through a convict.

    Seven contributors of Bilkis Bano’s circle of relatives have been additionally killed all the way through the 2002 Gujarat riots.

    In its Would possibly 13, 2022 order, the apex court docket had requested the state executive to imagine the plea of a convict for untimely free up in relation to its coverage of July 9, 1992, which used to be appropriate at the date of conviction and come to a decision it inside of a length of 2 months.

    All 11 convicts have been granted remission through the Gujarat executive and launched on August 15, remaining yr. Bano’s overview plea towards the Would possibly 13, 2022 order, then again, used to be brushed aside through the highest court docket in December remaining yr.

    Will struggle once more, towards what’s flawed: Bilkis Bano on remission given to her rapists

    Bilkis Bano case convict booked for outraging girl’s modesty whilst on parole in 2020

  • BJP to suggest answer in opposition to BBC’s 2002 riots documentary in Gujarat Meeting

    Via PTI

    AHMEDABAD: Gujarat Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) MLA Vipul Patel will on Friday transfer a answer within the Meeting in quest of “sturdy motion” in opposition to the “concocted” findings proven in a BBC documentary, which he alleged “as soon as once more makes an attempt accountable the then-state govt” for the 2002 post-Godhra riots.

    The proposed answer will most likely say the BBC documentary used to be a “low-level try” to tarnish India’s world symbol.

    “India is a democratic nation and freedom of expression is on the core of its Charter, however that doesn’t imply {that a} information media can abuse such freedom,” in line with a abstract of the proposed answer shared by means of the Meeting secretariat on Tuesday.

    The 2-part BBC documentary, titled “India: The Modi Query”, claimed it investigated positive facets on the subject of the 2002 Gujarat riots when High Minister Narendra Modi used to be the manager minister of the state.

    “If any person behaves or acts like this (BBC), then he can’t be taken flippantly. BBC is dropping its credibility and appears to be running with some hidden time table in opposition to India and the Indian govt. Therefore, this Space requests the Central Govt to take strict motion in opposition to the mind-boggling findings proven within the BBC documentary,” stated a be aware at the answer to be moved by means of Patel.

    The arguable documentary once more “makes an attempt accountable the then-state govt for the 2002 Godhra riots and next communal riots in Gujarat,” stated the be aware.

    The BBC documentary misrepresents the occasions of 2002 and is a malicious and low-level try to tarnish India’s world symbol, it stated.

    Throughout the documentary, planned makes an attempt were made to tarnish the picture and recognition of High Minister Modi with an time table to have an effect on India’s purpose to be in a most sensible position on the planet, stated the be aware.

    This, although the Nanavati-Shah inquiry fee concluded after a radical investigation that burning of the Sabarmati Specific close to Godhra railway station on February 27, 2002, used to be a premeditated conspiracy, and the riots that adopted have been spontaneous, it stated.

    The fee discovered no proof that the state govt or any spiritual group or political celebration performed any position within the riots, said the be aware.

    The Meeting, which is having its Finances consultation, will meet on Friday after a two-day destroy.

    AHMEDABAD: Gujarat Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) MLA Vipul Patel will on Friday transfer a answer within the Meeting in quest of “sturdy motion” in opposition to the “concocted” findings proven in a BBC documentary, which he alleged “as soon as once more makes an attempt accountable the then-state govt” for the 2002 post-Godhra riots.

    The proposed answer will most likely say the BBC documentary used to be a “low-level try” to tarnish India’s world symbol.

    “India is a democratic nation and freedom of expression is on the core of its Charter, however that doesn’t imply {that a} information media can abuse such freedom,” in line with a abstract of the proposed answer shared by means of the Meeting secretariat on Tuesday.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    The 2-part BBC documentary, titled “India: The Modi Query”, claimed it investigated positive facets on the subject of the 2002 Gujarat riots when High Minister Narendra Modi used to be the manager minister of the state.

    “If any person behaves or acts like this (BBC), then he can’t be taken flippantly. BBC is dropping its credibility and appears to be running with some hidden time table in opposition to India and the Indian govt. Therefore, this Space requests the Central Govt to take strict motion in opposition to the mind-boggling findings proven within the BBC documentary,” stated a be aware at the answer to be moved by means of Patel.

    The arguable documentary once more “makes an attempt accountable the then-state govt for the 2002 Godhra riots and next communal riots in Gujarat,” stated the be aware.

    The BBC documentary misrepresents the occasions of 2002 and is a malicious and low-level try to tarnish India’s world symbol, it stated.

    Throughout the documentary, planned makes an attempt were made to tarnish the picture and recognition of High Minister Modi with an time table to have an effect on India’s purpose to be in a most sensible position on the planet, stated the be aware.

    This, although the Nanavati-Shah inquiry fee concluded after a radical investigation that burning of the Sabarmati Specific close to Godhra railway station on February 27, 2002, used to be a premeditated conspiracy, and the riots that adopted have been spontaneous, it stated.

    The fee discovered no proof that the state govt or any spiritual group or political celebration performed any position within the riots, said the be aware.

    The Meeting, which is having its Finances consultation, will meet on Friday after a two-day destroy.

  • SC problems realize to Centre on PILs in opposition to BBC documentary on Gujarat riots

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    NEW DELHI: The Best Courtroom on Friday issued realize to Centre, Twitter and Google on pleas difficult its determination to dam a BBC documentary titled ‘India the Modi Query’ at the 2002 Gujarat riots. 

    A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and MM Sundresh requested the centre to provide unique information on the subject of blockading the documentary however alternatively refused to briefly keep the similar.

    On scholars being rusticated for screening the documentary, the court docket stated, “That’s a separate factor. We’re extra at the felony side. How are we able to permit the writ petition and move meantime order with no listening to? In the event that they (Centre) don’t do it (produce unique information), we’ll see what will also be accomplished at the subsequent date of the listening to.”

    Showing for Senior Journalist N Ram, Suggest Prashant Bhushan & TMC MP Mahua Moitra, Senior Suggest CU Singh instructed the bench that the documentary used to be taken down by way of the Ministry of Data and Broadcasting by way of invocation of emergency powers however have now not proven identical alacrity in sharing the explanations for passing those emergency orders and hanging the orders within the public area. He additionally recommended the bench to stick January 20 order and all next and consequential lawsuits coming up therefrom. 

    Aggrieved by way of the centre’s motion of taking down their (TMC MP Mahua Moitra and Suggest Prashant Bhushan) tweets, the petitioners within the plea have said that each one electorate together with the clicking have the elemental proper to view, shape an educated opinion, critique, document on, & lawfully flow into the contents of the documentary. It used to be additionally said that electorate have the best to obtain and disseminate data underneath the elemental proper to freedom of speech and expression. 

    In search of to quash the order dated January 20, 2023, of the Secretary, Ministry of the Data and Broadcasting for without delay or not directly censoring the documentary, the plea additionally said that the Govt of India has now not formally positioned any report/ order or another data within the public area and is the reason the explanations for the want to workout its emergency powers underneath Rule 16 of The Data Generation (Middleman Tips and Virtual Media Ethics Code) Regulations 2021. 

    “The ability of the chief underneath Segment 69 A to put down instructions for ‘blockading public get admission to’ is restricted to “sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, safety of the State, pleasant family members with international States or public order or for combating incitement to the fee of any cognizable offence on the subject of above”. As there is not any Order within the public area, the cause of restrictions as outlined underneath Segment 69A(1) can’t be ascertained,” the plea said. 

    The plea additionally states that freedom of speech and expression can’t be curtailed in this type of glaringly arbitrary approach.

    Levelling allegations that the ban used to be “malafide, arbitrary and unconstitutional”, ML Sharma in his plea has additionally looked for inspecting the documentary. He has additionally looked for taking motion in opposition to individuals concerned without delay or not directly within the Gujarat riots. Sharma has additionally claimed that the documentary has recorded details that as proof can be utilized additional to purpose justice to sufferers. 

    The topic is indexed for the following listening to in April.

    NEW DELHI: The Best Courtroom on Friday issued realize to Centre, Twitter and Google on pleas difficult its determination to dam a BBC documentary titled ‘India the Modi Query’ at the 2002 Gujarat riots. 

    A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and MM Sundresh requested the centre to provide unique information on the subject of blockading the documentary however alternatively refused to briefly keep the similar.

    On scholars being rusticated for screening the documentary, the court docket stated, “That’s a separate factor. We’re extra at the felony side. How are we able to permit the writ petition and move meantime order with no listening to? In the event that they (Centre) don’t do it (produce unique information), we’ll see what will also be accomplished at the subsequent date of the listening to.”

    Showing for Senior Journalist N Ram, Suggest Prashant Bhushan & TMC MP Mahua Moitra, Senior Suggest CU Singh instructed the bench that the documentary used to be taken down by way of the Ministry of Data and Broadcasting by way of invocation of emergency powers however have now not proven identical alacrity in sharing the explanations for passing those emergency orders and hanging the orders within the public area. He additionally recommended the bench to stick January 20 order and all next and consequential lawsuits coming up therefrom. 

    Aggrieved by way of the centre’s motion of taking down their (TMC MP Mahua Moitra and Suggest Prashant Bhushan) tweets, the petitioners within the plea have said that each one electorate together with the clicking have the elemental proper to view, shape an educated opinion, critique, document on, & lawfully flow into the contents of the documentary. It used to be additionally said that electorate have the best to obtain and disseminate data underneath the elemental proper to freedom of speech and expression. 

    In search of to quash the order dated January 20, 2023, of the Secretary, Ministry of the Data and Broadcasting for without delay or not directly censoring the documentary, the plea additionally said that the Govt of India has now not formally positioned any report/ order or another data within the public area and is the reason the explanations for the want to workout its emergency powers underneath Rule 16 of The Data Generation (Middleman Tips and Virtual Media Ethics Code) Regulations 2021. 

    “The ability of the chief underneath Segment 69 A to put down instructions for ‘blockading public get admission to’ is restricted to “sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, safety of the State, pleasant family members with international States or public order or for combating incitement to the fee of any cognizable offence on the subject of above”. As there is not any Order within the public area, the cause of restrictions as outlined underneath Segment 69A(1) can’t be ascertained,” the plea said. 

    The plea additionally states that freedom of speech and expression can’t be curtailed in this type of glaringly arbitrary approach.

    Levelling allegations that the ban used to be “malafide, arbitrary and unconstitutional”, ML Sharma in his plea has additionally looked for inspecting the documentary. He has additionally looked for taking motion in opposition to individuals concerned without delay or not directly within the Gujarat riots. Sharma has additionally claimed that the documentary has recorded details that as proof can be utilized additional to purpose justice to sufferers. 

    The topic is indexed for the following listening to in April.

  • SIT recordsdata price sheet towards Teesta Setalvad, two others in Gujarat riots case

    Via PTI

    AHMEDABAD: A distinct investigation staff (SIT) on Wednesday submitted a price sheet towards activist Teesta Setalvad, retired Director Basic of Police R B Sreekumar and previous IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in a case of alleged fabrication of proof in reference to the 2002 Gujarat riots circumstances.

    Investigating Officer and Assistant Commissioner of Police B V Solanki advised PTI that the price sheet was once filed within the courtroom of the manager metropolitan Justice of the Peace right here.

    Former IPS officer-turned-lawyer Rahul Sharma has additionally been made a witness within the case, he added.

    The crime department FIR reportedly states that the trio abused the method of regulation via conspiring to manufacture proof in an try to body blameless other folks for an offence punishable with capital punishment in reference to the 2002 Gujarat riots.

    The accused were charged beneath sections 468 (forgery for function of dishonest), 194 (giving or fabricating false proof with intent to acquire conviction for capital offence) and 218 (public servant framing mistaken report or writing with intent to avoid wasting particular person from punishment or assets from forfeiture) of the IPC, amongst different provisions.

    ALSO READ | 2002 Gujarat riots: Activist Teesta Setalvad walks out of prison after over two months

    Setalvad, arrested within the final week of June, was once launched on intervening time bail following a September 2 order of the Preferrred Court docket.

    Sreekumar stays lodged within the prison within the case.

    The 3rd accused, Bhatt is in a prison in Palanpur the place he’s serving lifestyles sentence in a custodial dying case.

    AHMEDABAD: A distinct investigation staff (SIT) on Wednesday submitted a price sheet towards activist Teesta Setalvad, retired Director Basic of Police R B Sreekumar and previous IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in a case of alleged fabrication of proof in reference to the 2002 Gujarat riots circumstances.

    Investigating Officer and Assistant Commissioner of Police B V Solanki advised PTI that the price sheet was once filed within the courtroom of the manager metropolitan Justice of the Peace right here.

    Former IPS officer-turned-lawyer Rahul Sharma has additionally been made a witness within the case, he added.

    The crime department FIR reportedly states that the trio abused the method of regulation via conspiring to manufacture proof in an try to body blameless other folks for an offence punishable with capital punishment in reference to the 2002 Gujarat riots.

    The accused were charged beneath sections 468 (forgery for function of dishonest), 194 (giving or fabricating false proof with intent to acquire conviction for capital offence) and 218 (public servant framing mistaken report or writing with intent to avoid wasting particular person from punishment or assets from forfeiture) of the IPC, amongst different provisions.

    ALSO READ | 2002 Gujarat riots: Activist Teesta Setalvad walks out of prison after over two months

    Setalvad, arrested within the final week of June, was once launched on intervening time bail following a September 2 order of the Preferrred Court docket.

    Sreekumar stays lodged within the prison within the case.

    The 3rd accused, Bhatt is in a prison in Palanpur the place he’s serving lifestyles sentence in a custodial dying case.

  • Bilkis case: Rahul says whole nation seeing distinction between PM Modi’s phrases, deeds

    Through PTI

    NEW DELHI: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday focused Top Minister Narendra Modi over the discharge of the convicts within the Bilkis Bano case and mentioned all of the nation is seeing the adaptation between his phrases and deeds. He requested what message is being despatched out to the ladies of the rustic via such selections.

    The BJP executive in Gujarat launched the entire 11 other people convicted for the rape of a pregnant Bilkis Bano and homicide of 7 of her members of the family throughout the 2002 Gujarat riots, below its remission coverage.

    “Those that raped a five-month pregnant lady and killed her three-year-old daughter have been launched throughout ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’.

    What message is being given to the ladies of the rustic via those that peddle lies about ‘Nari Shakti’? “Top Minister ji, all of the nation is seeing the adaptation between your phrases and deeds,” Gandhi mentioned in a tweet in Hindi.

    The convicts within the Bilkis Bano case have been welcomed with goodies and garlands once they stepped out of the Godhra sub-jail in Gujarat after 15 years on Monday.

    NEW DELHI: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday focused Top Minister Narendra Modi over the discharge of the convicts within the Bilkis Bano case and mentioned all of the nation is seeing the adaptation between his phrases and deeds. He requested what message is being despatched out to the ladies of the rustic via such selections.

    The BJP executive in Gujarat launched the entire 11 other people convicted for the rape of a pregnant Bilkis Bano and homicide of 7 of her members of the family throughout the 2002 Gujarat riots, below its remission coverage.

    “Those that raped a five-month pregnant lady and killed her three-year-old daughter have been launched throughout ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’.

    What message is being given to the ladies of the rustic via those that peddle lies about ‘Nari Shakti’? “Top Minister ji, all of the nation is seeing the adaptation between your phrases and deeds,” Gandhi mentioned in a tweet in Hindi.

    The convicts within the Bilkis Bano case have been welcomed with goodies and garlands once they stepped out of the Godhra sub-jail in Gujarat after 15 years on Monday.

  • Teesta Setalvad strikes SC for bail in Gujarat riots case, listening to on Aug 22

    Via ANI

    NEW DELHI: The Ideal Courtroom on Tuesday agreed to listen to on August 22 a plea through activist Teesta Setalvad in search of period in-between bail in a case through which she was once arrested for allegedly fabricating paperwork to border blameless folks in 2002 Gujarat riots instances.

    A bench of Leader Justice NV Ramana and Justices JK Maheshwari and Hima Kohli posted the subject for listening to earlier than a bench headed through Justice UU Lalit on August 22 after suggest Aparna Bhat discussed the case for pressing record.

    “Upon being discussed through Aparna Bhat, Recommend on File for the petitioner in search of pressing record of the subject, the Registry is directed to checklist the subject on August 22, 2022, earlier than a Bench presided over through Justice Uday Umesh Lalit,” the bench in its order said.

    Setalvad has approached the highest courtroom towards the August 3 order of the Gujarat Top Courtroom which issued realize to the Particular Investigation Group (SIT) in search of its reaction to bail programs filed through Setalvad and previous Gujarat Director Normal of Police (DGP) RB Sreekumar and posted the listening to on September 19.

    Setalvad and Sreekumar had approached the Top Courtroom after their bail programs have been rejected through the Ahmedabad town periods courtroom.

    On July 30, the Ahmedabad periods courtroom refused to grant bail to Setalvad and Sreekumar whilst noting that the accused seemed to have aimed to “destabilise” the Gujarat govt and defame the state for his or her ulterior motives.

    ALSO READ | Teesta Setalvad arrest helps to keep Godhra pot boiling

    They have been arrested through the Ahmedabad Police Crime Department on June 25 at the foundation of a First Data Document (FIR) registered towards them underneath sections 468 (forgery for dishonest) and 194 (fabricating false proof with intent to acquire conviction for capital offences) of the Indian Penal Code.

    The Particular Investigation Group (SIT) shaped to probe the case has alleged that Setalvad and Sreekumar have been a part of a bigger conspiracy performed on the behest of overdue Congress chief Ahmed Patel to destabilise the then Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration (BJP) govt led through Narendra Modi, who was once the Leader Minister of Gujarat on the time.

    Former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt may be an accused within the case.

    The FIR towards Setalvad, Sreekumar, and Bhatt was once registered after the Ideal Courtroom had on June 24 disregarded the plea filed through Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, difficult the blank chit given through the SIT to High Minister Narendra Modi and several other others in 2002 Gujarat riots.

    Ehsan Jafri was once amongst 69 folks killed all over the violence on the Gulberg Society in Ahmedabad on February 28, 2002. Zakia Jafri had challenged the SIT’s blank chit to 64 folks together with Narendra Modi who was once the Gujarat Leader Minister all over the riots within the State.

    The SIT within the apex courtroom had antagonistic the plea of Jafri pronouncing there’s a sinister plot at the back of the criticism to probe the “higher conspiracy” at the back of the 2002 Gujarat riots and the unique criticism through Jafri was once directed through activist Teesta Setalvad, who levelled allegations simply to stay the pot boiling. 

    NEW DELHI: The Ideal Courtroom on Tuesday agreed to listen to on August 22 a plea through activist Teesta Setalvad in search of period in-between bail in a case through which she was once arrested for allegedly fabricating paperwork to border blameless folks in 2002 Gujarat riots instances.

    A bench of Leader Justice NV Ramana and Justices JK Maheshwari and Hima Kohli posted the subject for listening to earlier than a bench headed through Justice UU Lalit on August 22 after suggest Aparna Bhat discussed the case for pressing record.

    “Upon being discussed through Aparna Bhat, Recommend on File for the petitioner in search of pressing record of the subject, the Registry is directed to checklist the subject on August 22, 2022, earlier than a Bench presided over through Justice Uday Umesh Lalit,” the bench in its order said.

    Setalvad has approached the highest courtroom towards the August 3 order of the Gujarat Top Courtroom which issued realize to the Particular Investigation Group (SIT) in search of its reaction to bail programs filed through Setalvad and previous Gujarat Director Normal of Police (DGP) RB Sreekumar and posted the listening to on September 19.

    Setalvad and Sreekumar had approached the Top Courtroom after their bail programs have been rejected through the Ahmedabad town periods courtroom.

    On July 30, the Ahmedabad periods courtroom refused to grant bail to Setalvad and Sreekumar whilst noting that the accused seemed to have aimed to “destabilise” the Gujarat govt and defame the state for his or her ulterior motives.

    ALSO READ | Teesta Setalvad arrest helps to keep Godhra pot boiling

    They have been arrested through the Ahmedabad Police Crime Department on June 25 at the foundation of a First Data Document (FIR) registered towards them underneath sections 468 (forgery for dishonest) and 194 (fabricating false proof with intent to acquire conviction for capital offences) of the Indian Penal Code.

    The Particular Investigation Group (SIT) shaped to probe the case has alleged that Setalvad and Sreekumar have been a part of a bigger conspiracy performed on the behest of overdue Congress chief Ahmed Patel to destabilise the then Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration (BJP) govt led through Narendra Modi, who was once the Leader Minister of Gujarat on the time.

    Former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt may be an accused within the case.

    The FIR towards Setalvad, Sreekumar, and Bhatt was once registered after the Ideal Courtroom had on June 24 disregarded the plea filed through Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, difficult the blank chit given through the SIT to High Minister Narendra Modi and several other others in 2002 Gujarat riots.

    Ehsan Jafri was once amongst 69 folks killed all over the violence on the Gulberg Society in Ahmedabad on February 28, 2002. Zakia Jafri had challenged the SIT’s blank chit to 64 folks together with Narendra Modi who was once the Gujarat Leader Minister all over the riots within the State.

    The SIT within the apex courtroom had antagonistic the plea of Jafri pronouncing there’s a sinister plot at the back of the criticism to probe the “higher conspiracy” at the back of the 2002 Gujarat riots and the unique criticism through Jafri was once directed through activist Teesta Setalvad, who levelled allegations simply to stay the pot boiling. 

  • We had been sufferers of politics, says Bilkis case convict day after being freed

    By way of PTI

    AHMEDABAD: An afternoon after he and ten others had been launched from prison within the case associated with the gangrape of Bilkis Bano and homicide of her members of the family throughout the 2002 Gujarat riots, convict Shailesh Bhatt claimed that they had been “sufferers of politics.”

    Bhatt, 63, who mentioned he used to be an area functionary of the ruling BJP when he used to be arrested, and others together with his brother and co-convict Mitesh left for his or her village Singor in Gujarat’s Dahod district after strolling out of the Godhra prison.

    Sentenced to existence imprisonment, they had been launched on Monday underneath the Gujarat govt’s remission coverage after finishing greater than 15 years in prison.

    Their reception on the village on Tuesday used to be muted and there used to be no visual party.

    “Singor is a small village. The entire convicts belong to this village. We had been all sufferers of politics,” mentioned Shailesh Bhatt, chatting with newshounds.

    He used to be a farmer and likewise an office-bearer of the district unit of the BJP whilst his brother labored as a clerk at Panchmahals Dairy after they had been arrested, he mentioned.

    “We had been arrested in 2004 and remained in prison for greater than 18 years. It feels just right to be house with my members of the family. Everyone is excited that we’re again. My son used to be 8 or 9 years outdated then, now he’s an grownup and works with Panchmahal Dairy. I’m glad for him,” Bhatt added.

    His mom died when he used to be in prison in 2007.

    ALSO READ | Bilkis Bano’s circle of relatives shocked on free up of convicts in case of her gang rape and family homicide

    The courtroom had granted him intervening time bail to accomplish her closing rites, he mentioned.

    Bilkis Bano used to be 21 years outdated and 5 months pregnant when she used to be raped whilst fleeing the violence that broke out within the aftermath of the Sabarmati Specific teach burning incident at Godhra in 2002.

    Seven participants of her circle of relatives had been murdered.

    Radheshyam Shah, some other convict, had asserted after his free up on Monday that they had been all blameless.

    “We had been framed up on account of our trust in sure ideology,” he had claimed ahead of the media.

    One in all them died throughout the trial whilst a few others misplaced their other halves throughout their incarceration, he mentioned.

    AHMEDABAD: An afternoon after he and ten others had been launched from prison within the case associated with the gangrape of Bilkis Bano and homicide of her members of the family throughout the 2002 Gujarat riots, convict Shailesh Bhatt claimed that they had been “sufferers of politics.”

    Bhatt, 63, who mentioned he used to be an area functionary of the ruling BJP when he used to be arrested, and others together with his brother and co-convict Mitesh left for his or her village Singor in Gujarat’s Dahod district after strolling out of the Godhra prison.

    Sentenced to existence imprisonment, they had been launched on Monday underneath the Gujarat govt’s remission coverage after finishing greater than 15 years in prison.

    Their reception on the village on Tuesday used to be muted and there used to be no visual party.

    “Singor is a small village. The entire convicts belong to this village. We had been all sufferers of politics,” mentioned Shailesh Bhatt, chatting with newshounds.

    He used to be a farmer and likewise an office-bearer of the district unit of the BJP whilst his brother labored as a clerk at Panchmahals Dairy after they had been arrested, he mentioned.

    “We had been arrested in 2004 and remained in prison for greater than 18 years. It feels just right to be house with my members of the family. Everyone is excited that we’re again. My son used to be 8 or 9 years outdated then, now he’s an grownup and works with Panchmahal Dairy. I’m glad for him,” Bhatt added.

    His mom died when he used to be in prison in 2007.

    ALSO READ | Bilkis Bano’s circle of relatives shocked on free up of convicts in case of her gang rape and family homicide

    The courtroom had granted him intervening time bail to accomplish her closing rites, he mentioned.

    Bilkis Bano used to be 21 years outdated and 5 months pregnant when she used to be raped whilst fleeing the violence that broke out within the aftermath of the Sabarmati Specific teach burning incident at Godhra in 2002.

    Seven participants of her circle of relatives had been murdered.

    Radheshyam Shah, some other convict, had asserted after his free up on Monday that they had been all blameless.

    “We had been framed up on account of our trust in sure ideology,” he had claimed ahead of the media.

    One in all them died throughout the trial whilst a few others misplaced their other halves throughout their incarceration, he mentioned.

  • Setalvad used to be a part of conspiracy to border then-Gujarat CM Modi in 2002 riots instances: SIT to court docket

    By way of PTI

    AHMEDABAD: Social activist Teesta Setalvad used to be a part of a bigger conspiracy to border the then-Gujarat Leader Minister Narendra Modi and others as accused within the post-Godhra riots instances, and tried to destabilize the BJP govt the usage of finances gathered within the title of sufferers, a state SIT instructed a court docket on Wednesday.

    Setalvad used to be arrested final month via the Ahmedabad crime department along side former DGP RB Sreekumar and ex-IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt for allegedly fabricating proof to border blameless individuals within the 2002 riots instances.

    The Mumbai-based activist, recently in prison in Gujarat, has sought bail.

    A different investigation staff (SIT) of the Gujarat police, probing the costs towards Setalvad and the 2 former cops, has adversarial her bail plea.

    Arguing towards the bail plea of Setalvad, particular public prosecutor (SPP) Mitesh Amin instructed the court docket of periods pass judgement on DD Thakkar in Ahmedabad that she used to be a part of a bigger conspiracy to border the then-chief minister Modi and others as accused within the riots instances.

    Amin instructed the court docket Setalvad gained finances at the floor they have been intended to be allotted a number of the sufferers of the 2002 riots, however the cash by no means reached the supposed beneficiaries.

    The SPP claimed the cash by no means reached the sufferers, and it used to be fairly used to destabilise the then-BJP govt and display it engineered and subsidized the riots, which have been prompted after a mob torched a trainer of the Sabarmati Specific educate close to Godhra station on February 27, 2002, resulting in the demise of 59 passengers.

    The conspiracy concerned Congress leaders just like the past due Ahmed Patel and others, and all this used to be performed on the behest of the opposition birthday celebration, he stated.

    Additional arguments will proceed on Thursday.

    The court docket is listening to the bail pleas of each Setalvad and Sreekumar.

    They’ve already refuted the entire fees levelled towards them and claimed there used to be no benefit in them.

    Setalvad, along side Sreekumar and Bhatt, used to be booked beneath Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 468 (forgery) and 194 (giving or fabricating false proof with intent to acquire conviction for capital offence), amongst different offences after arrest.

    The SIT, in its affidavit submitted prior to the court docket final week, had accused Setalvad of conspiring with the 2 different accused — Sreekumar and Bhatt — for “dismissal or destabilisation of the elected govt in Gujarat by some means.”

    Opposing her bail plea, the SIT stated within the affidavit that the conspiracy used to be performed on the behest of past due Patel.

    At Patel’s behest, Setalvad gained Rs 30 lakh after the post-Godhra riots, the probe staff alleged.

    Setalvad used to satisfy the leaders of a “distinguished nationwide birthday celebration in energy at the moment in Delhi to implicate names of senior leaders of the BJP govt in revolt instances”, the SIT additional claimed within the affidavit.

    Final month, the Preferrred Courtroom had pushed aside a plea filed via Zakia Jafri, whose husband Ehsan Jafri, a former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, killed all the way through the riots in Ahmedabad.

    The plea alleged a “greater conspiracy” at the back of the 2002 riots in Gujarat.

    However the court docket upheld a prior SIT’s blank chit to Modi (who used to be Gujarat CM from 2001 to 2014) and 63 others.

    The apex court docket had stated there is not any “name of subject matter” to give a boost to the allegation that the communal violence that came about after the Godhra educate burning incident used to be a “pre-planned match” owing to a conspiracy hatched on the very best stage within the state.

    Ehsan Jafri used to be a number of the 68 other people killed at Ahmedabad’s Gulberg Society all the way through the violence on February 28, 2002, an afternoon after the Godhra educate burning incident.

    The central govt had knowledgeable the Rajya Sabha in Might 2005 that 790 Muslims and 254 Hindus have been killed within the statewide riots.

    AHMEDABAD: Social activist Teesta Setalvad used to be a part of a bigger conspiracy to border the then-Gujarat Leader Minister Narendra Modi and others as accused within the post-Godhra riots instances, and tried to destabilize the BJP govt the usage of finances gathered within the title of sufferers, a state SIT instructed a court docket on Wednesday.

    Setalvad used to be arrested final month via the Ahmedabad crime department along side former DGP RB Sreekumar and ex-IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt for allegedly fabricating proof to border blameless individuals within the 2002 riots instances.

    The Mumbai-based activist, recently in prison in Gujarat, has sought bail.

    A different investigation staff (SIT) of the Gujarat police, probing the costs towards Setalvad and the 2 former cops, has adversarial her bail plea.

    Arguing towards the bail plea of Setalvad, particular public prosecutor (SPP) Mitesh Amin instructed the court docket of periods pass judgement on DD Thakkar in Ahmedabad that she used to be a part of a bigger conspiracy to border the then-chief minister Modi and others as accused within the riots instances.

    Amin instructed the court docket Setalvad gained finances at the floor they have been intended to be allotted a number of the sufferers of the 2002 riots, however the cash by no means reached the supposed beneficiaries.

    The SPP claimed the cash by no means reached the sufferers, and it used to be fairly used to destabilise the then-BJP govt and display it engineered and subsidized the riots, which have been prompted after a mob torched a trainer of the Sabarmati Specific educate close to Godhra station on February 27, 2002, resulting in the demise of 59 passengers.

    The conspiracy concerned Congress leaders just like the past due Ahmed Patel and others, and all this used to be performed on the behest of the opposition birthday celebration, he stated.

    Additional arguments will proceed on Thursday.

    The court docket is listening to the bail pleas of each Setalvad and Sreekumar.

    They’ve already refuted the entire fees levelled towards them and claimed there used to be no benefit in them.

    Setalvad, along side Sreekumar and Bhatt, used to be booked beneath Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 468 (forgery) and 194 (giving or fabricating false proof with intent to acquire conviction for capital offence), amongst different offences after arrest.

    The SIT, in its affidavit submitted prior to the court docket final week, had accused Setalvad of conspiring with the 2 different accused — Sreekumar and Bhatt — for “dismissal or destabilisation of the elected govt in Gujarat by some means.”

    Opposing her bail plea, the SIT stated within the affidavit that the conspiracy used to be performed on the behest of past due Patel.

    At Patel’s behest, Setalvad gained Rs 30 lakh after the post-Godhra riots, the probe staff alleged.

    Setalvad used to satisfy the leaders of a “distinguished nationwide birthday celebration in energy at the moment in Delhi to implicate names of senior leaders of the BJP govt in revolt instances”, the SIT additional claimed within the affidavit.

    Final month, the Preferrred Courtroom had pushed aside a plea filed via Zakia Jafri, whose husband Ehsan Jafri, a former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, killed all the way through the riots in Ahmedabad.

    The plea alleged a “greater conspiracy” at the back of the 2002 riots in Gujarat.

    However the court docket upheld a prior SIT’s blank chit to Modi (who used to be Gujarat CM from 2001 to 2014) and 63 others.

    The apex court docket had stated there is not any “name of subject matter” to give a boost to the allegation that the communal violence that came about after the Godhra educate burning incident used to be a “pre-planned match” owing to a conspiracy hatched on the very best stage within the state.

    Ehsan Jafri used to be a number of the 68 other people killed at Ahmedabad’s Gulberg Society all the way through the violence on February 28, 2002, an afternoon after the Godhra educate burning incident.

    The central govt had knowledgeable the Rajya Sabha in Might 2005 that 790 Muslims and 254 Hindus have been killed within the statewide riots.