Gujarat Riots

Bilkis Bano moves Supreme Court: What was the gang-rape case and why were the convicts released?

Bilkis Bano has moved the Supreme Court challenging the release of 11 men convicted of gang-raping her and killing her family in the 2002 Gujarat riots. The convicts were freed on 15 August by the Gujarat government under a previous remission policy

Bilkis Bano files fresh plea before Supreme Court, challenges release of 11 convicts

Bilkis Bano was allegedly gang-raped and several of her family members were killed during the Gujarat riots of 2002 that had erupted after the Godhra train burning incident. Seven of her family members were killed, including her three-year-old daughter

Ahmed Patel paid Teesta Setalvad to destabilise Modi govt, says SIT; BJP calls Sonia Gandhi ‘driving force’

SIT probing charges of fabrication of evidence and conspiracy linked to the 2002 Gujarat riots stated in an affidavit that the political objective of Setalvad "while enacting this larger conspiracy was dismissal or destabilisation of the elected government"

Teesta Setalvad, RB Sreekumar sent in judicial remand; cops do not seek further custody

The two were produced before metropolitan magistrate SP Patel after their police custody ended

India snubs Office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights for commenting on Teesta Setalvad’s arrest

'The remarks are completely unwarranted & constitute interference in India's independent judicial system,' MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said

Metropolitan court grants remand of activist Teesta Setalvad, former Gujarat DGP Sreekumar to crime branch till 2 July

An FIR was lodged against Teesta Setalvad, Sreekumar and former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt for giving false testimonies in connection with the 2002 Gujarat riots

Teesta Setalvad produced in Ahmedabad court; crime branch demands 14-day custody

Gujarat Anti-terrorism Squad team detained Setalvad on Saturday from Mumbai in connection with a case on her NGO, which gave baseless information about the 2002 Gujarat riots to the police

Gujarat ATS hands over Teesta Setalvad to Ahmedabad crime branch

Teesta Setalvad and her NGO were co-petitioner with Zakia Jafri in the petition filed against Modi and others in the Supreme Court

2002 Gujarat riots: Guj police register FIR against Teesta Setalvad, former IPS officers RB Sreekumar, Sanjiv Bhatt

This comes a day after the Supreme Court dismissed the plea filed by Zakia Ehsan Jafri challenging the clean chit given to Prime Minister Narendra Modi by the Special Investigation Team in the 2002 Gujarat riots

2002 Gujarat riots: SC upholds SIT clean chit to PM Modi, dismisses Zakia Jafri's plea

A three-judge bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar upheld the magistrate's order rejecting Zakia Jafri's protest petition against the closure report filed by the SIT in 2012