Tag: Ahmedabad court

  • Jignesh Mevani, 19 others sentenced to six months prison

    Through IANS

    AHMEDABAD: An Ahmedabad court docket on Friday convicted Congress chief Jignesh Mevani and 19 others accountable in a 2016 vandalism case and sentenced them to 6 months imprisonment.

    The Metropolitan Justice of the Peace awarded 3 other sentences underneath the 3 other sections of IPC – six months prison underneath one, Rs 500 high quality underneath some other, and Rs 100 high quality within the 3rd.

    It has stayed the operative a part of the order, so Mevani and others can attraction the order prior to the periods court docket.

    In 2016, Mevani and others had been main protests not easy to call Gujarat College’s Regulation Division as Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Bhavan. The protest became violent and the premises had been vandalised. All protestors had been arrested and produced prior to the court docket.

    AHMEDABAD: An Ahmedabad court docket on Friday convicted Congress chief Jignesh Mevani and 19 others accountable in a 2016 vandalism case and sentenced them to 6 months imprisonment.

    The Metropolitan Justice of the Peace awarded 3 other sentences underneath the 3 other sections of IPC – six months prison underneath one, Rs 500 high quality underneath some other, and Rs 100 high quality within the 3rd.

    It has stayed the operative a part of the order, so Mevani and others can attraction the order prior to the periods court docket.

    In 2016, Mevani and others had been main protests not easy to call Gujarat College’s Regulation Division as Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Bhavan. The protest became violent and the premises had been vandalised. All protestors had been arrested and produced prior to the court docket.

  • Gujarat riots case: Ahmedabad courtroom defers order on bail pleas of Teesta Setalvad, Sreekumar

    By way of ANI

    AHMEDABAD: An Ahmedabad courtroom, which reserved its order at the bail packages of activist Teesta Setalvad and previous DGP RB Sreekumar remaining week within the 2002 Gujarat riots case, deferred the judgement to Thursday.

    Each the perimeters had concluded presenting their arguments remaining week, following which the courtroom had reserved its order and used to be more likely to pronounce the judgement Tuesday or on Wednesday.

    The Gujarat Police Crime Department on June 26 had arrested Teesta Setalvad in reference to a case in opposition to her NGO which gave baseless details about the 2002 Gujarat riots to the police.

    The SIT had filed critical fees in opposition to Teesta Setalvad, RB Sreekumar and Sanjeev Bhatt with regards to defaming a number of other people together with the then Leader Minister Narendra Modi with regards to petitions to quite a lot of commissions and the Very best Courtroom.

    An SIT record, previous this month, published that Teesta, Sreekumar and previous IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt had approved Rs 30 lakh from overdue Congress chief Ahmed Patel, the then political consultant to Sonia Gandhi, to allegedly body then Gujarat leader minister Narendra Modi and destabilise his executive following the 2002 Gujarat riots.

    The SIT used to be shaped to probe Setalvad along side RB Sreekumar for felony conspiracy and forgery.

    SIT ACP BC Solanki and Particular public prosecutors Mitesh Amin and Amit Patel had filed a sworn statement within the periods courtroom in opposition to the bail plea filed via Teesta, Sreekumar within the Periods Courtroom declaring that the accused had entered into a bigger conspiracy with the aim of acquiring unlawful cash and different advantages from the Congress.

    A metropolitan courtroom in Ahmedabad despatched Setalvad and Sreekumar to 14-day judicial custody on July 2. Former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt used to be arrested via the Ahmedabad Police’s Crime Department in reference to the Gujarat riots case for embezzling price range and forging paperwork.

    Ultimate month, the Very best Courtroom disregarded the plea filed via Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, difficult the blank chit given via the Particular Investigation Group (SIT) to then Leader Minister Narendra Modi and several other others within the 2002 Gujarat riots.

    Ehsan Jafri used to be amongst 69 other people killed throughout violence on the Gulberg Society in Ahmedabad on February 28, 2002. His widow Zakia Jafri challenged the SIT’s blank chit to 64 other people together with Narendra Modi. In line with the SIT, Zakia Jafri used to be used as a device via Teesta.

    After 58 pilgrims had been burnt alive at the Sabarmati Categorical teach at Gujarat’s Godhra railway station on February 27, 2002, riots broke out around the state through which greater than 1,000 other people had been killed. 

    AHMEDABAD: An Ahmedabad courtroom, which reserved its order at the bail packages of activist Teesta Setalvad and previous DGP RB Sreekumar remaining week within the 2002 Gujarat riots case, deferred the judgement to Thursday.

    Each the perimeters had concluded presenting their arguments remaining week, following which the courtroom had reserved its order and used to be more likely to pronounce the judgement Tuesday or on Wednesday.

    The Gujarat Police Crime Department on June 26 had arrested Teesta Setalvad in reference to a case in opposition to her NGO which gave baseless details about the 2002 Gujarat riots to the police.

    The SIT had filed critical fees in opposition to Teesta Setalvad, RB Sreekumar and Sanjeev Bhatt with regards to defaming a number of other people together with the then Leader Minister Narendra Modi with regards to petitions to quite a lot of commissions and the Very best Courtroom.

    An SIT record, previous this month, published that Teesta, Sreekumar and previous IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt had approved Rs 30 lakh from overdue Congress chief Ahmed Patel, the then political consultant to Sonia Gandhi, to allegedly body then Gujarat leader minister Narendra Modi and destabilise his executive following the 2002 Gujarat riots.

    The SIT used to be shaped to probe Setalvad along side RB Sreekumar for felony conspiracy and forgery.

    SIT ACP BC Solanki and Particular public prosecutors Mitesh Amin and Amit Patel had filed a sworn statement within the periods courtroom in opposition to the bail plea filed via Teesta, Sreekumar within the Periods Courtroom declaring that the accused had entered into a bigger conspiracy with the aim of acquiring unlawful cash and different advantages from the Congress.

    A metropolitan courtroom in Ahmedabad despatched Setalvad and Sreekumar to 14-day judicial custody on July 2. Former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt used to be arrested via the Ahmedabad Police’s Crime Department in reference to the Gujarat riots case for embezzling price range and forging paperwork.

    Ultimate month, the Very best Courtroom disregarded the plea filed via Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, difficult the blank chit given via the Particular Investigation Group (SIT) to then Leader Minister Narendra Modi and several other others within the 2002 Gujarat riots.

    Ehsan Jafri used to be amongst 69 other people killed throughout violence on the Gulberg Society in Ahmedabad on February 28, 2002. His widow Zakia Jafri challenged the SIT’s blank chit to 64 other people together with Narendra Modi. In line with the SIT, Zakia Jafri used to be used as a device via Teesta.

    After 58 pilgrims had been burnt alive at the Sabarmati Categorical teach at Gujarat’s Godhra railway station on February 27, 2002, riots broke out around the state through which greater than 1,000 other people had been killed.