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Gujarat police's allegations against Ahmed Patel mischievous, manufactured: Congress
•In a statement, Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh said that this is part of the Prime Minister's systematic strategy to absolve himself of any responsibility for the communal carnage unleashed when he was chief minister of Gujarat in 2002
Gujarat police opposes Teesta Setalvad's bail application, says she was part of "larger conspiracy"
•The police also said that the "larger conspiracy" was carried out at the behest of late Congress leader Ahmed Patel to dismiss the BJP government in the state after the 2002 riots
Gujarat ATS questions four men ahead of PM Modi's visit
•All four were allowed to go after questioning on Wednesday, officials said, without disclosing why they were detained
Ishrat case: Something’s odd about cops in Modi’s Gujarat
Mishra •Many things are not clear about the Gujarat police and its relation with Modi. Unravelling these would be key to understanding the riots of 2002.
Gujarat Police arrests 46 people for taking out procession to ‘eradicate COVID-19’ in Gandhinagar
•The procession was held a few days after 23 people were arrested for holding a similar march in Ahmedabad’s Navapura
Gujarat Municipal Election 2021: Over 43,000 cops deployed for 21 Feb civic polls; 1.5 lakh people detained
•Counting of votes for the civic polls in Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Surat, Vadodara, Bhavnagar and Jamnagar will take place on 23 February
In Ahmedabad, lack of localised COVID-19 data and administrative tangle impede fight against virus
Ajaz Shaikh And R Advaita •The police needs clean localised data to formulate strategies on where to increase patrolling and where to be stricter in enforcing the lockdown.
66-year-old, accused of killing policeman in 1982 dacoity and murder case, arrested in Rajasthan's Barmer
•Shaktidan Singh was a notorious dacoit in the 1980s. Forty cases are registered against him in his home state of Rajasthan
Coronavirus lockdown: Rumours, misinformation prompts hundreds of desperate migrants to throng bus terminals in Ahmedabad, Surat
•A total of 23 Shramik Special trains carrying around 28,000 migrant workers had left various stations of Gujarat since 2 May to Tuesday morning, a state government release said
Police vehicles damaged, 40 detained as migrant workers pelt stones in Gujarat’s Dahod amid coronavirus lockdown
•Some migrant workers stranded in Khangela, Dahod pelted stones at police on Saturday, following which police vehicles were damaged