Nine cases are under investigation by a Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT), including the main #Godhra train burning incident.
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https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/status-update-gujarat-riots-cases-21-years-on-101688626799707.html https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1676856353032376320 #press
Post-Godhra Riots: 'Prominent Hindus Unnecessarily Faced Trial Due To Uproar Of Pseudo-Secular Media, Organisation': Court Acquits 35 Accused
In its 36-page order, the court of Additional Sessions Judge Harsh Balkrishna Trivedi noted that in the case, the Police implicated prominent Hindu persons of the concerned area including Doctors, Professors, Teachers, Businessmen, Panchayat officials and due to the uproar of pseudo-secular media and organizations, the accused persons had to unnecessarily face prolonged trial.
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Why are Gujarat’s courts increasingly acquitting 2002 riots accused?
The ruling BJP is working the criminal justice system to ensure this outcome, its opposition leaders and critics allege.
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https://scroll.in/article/1047905/why-are-gujarats-courts-increasingly-acquitting-2002-riots-accused
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21 years after Godhra riots, Zakia Jafri visits Ahmedabad home: ‘She misses it’
Of the 66 accused, six died during the pendency of the trial, while 24 were convicted by the special trial court in 2016 of whom 11 were sentenced to life for murder (conviction under IPC section 302).
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Disturbing Similarities in Modi's Journey from Godhra, 2002 to Pulwama, 2019
His calculated neglect of the threat to the CRPF has the same origins as his government’s abysmal failure in virtually every department.
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The Long Shadow of the Nazi 'Kristallnacht' Fell on the 2002 Violence in Gujarat
The demonisation of the Jews in Nazi Germany and that of Muslims in India are startlingly similar.
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Book Review: Manoj Mitta's 'The Fiction of Fact-Finding: Modi and Godhra'
Narendra Modi’s role in the horrific 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom in Gujarat has never been properly investigated, but now a timely new study is raising the right questions.
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https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/could-indias-next-prime-minister-be-hindu-extremist/
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Gujarat court acquits 22 accused in post-Godhra riots case in which 17 people were killed
A court at Halol town in Gujarat's Panchmahal district on Tuesday acquitted 22 persons, accused of killing 17 members of a minority community, including two children, for want of evidence in a case stemming from the 2002 post-Godhra communal riots in the state.
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BBC Row: UK report states VHP planned Gujarat violence in advance, Godhra a “pretext”
The report states that the violence was “planned, possibly months in advance” by Vishva Hindu Parishad, a Hindu nationalist organisation. The report notes: “The attack on the train at Godhra on 27 February provided the pretext. If it had not occurred, another one would have been found.
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https://caravanmagazine.in/politics/uk-government-modi-gujarat-2002-riots-report-bbc-documentary
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BBC Documentary on Gujarat 2002 Reminds Us That We Are Not Interested in Truth
People in India can fight cases of property matters for 20 years but do not believe in fighting for justice when collective injustice is meted out.
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https://thewire.in/rights/bbc-documentary-gujarat-2002-india-truth
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UK team said Modi was responsible for ‘climate of impunity’ in 2002 riots, claims BBC documentary
Modi had denied allegations that he did not do enough to stop the violence.
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