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Bilkis Bano case: Supreme Court raps Gujarat govt over ‘selective’ remission to accused

The Supreme Court of India told the Gujarat government that a state should not be ‘selective’ in granting remission to their prisoners. This was said in relation to the eleven accused of gangraping Bilkis Bano during the 2002 Gujarat Riots.

livemint.com/news/india/bilkis

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Salon.com - Maryland lieutenant governor got funding from donors linked to far-right extremist movement

Maryland lieutenant governor got funding from donors linked to far-right extremist movement

Critics accuse Aruna Miller of retaliating against those that called out the problematic donations.

salon.com/2023/08/05/maryland-

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The Hindu - Gujarat HC grants bail to ex-DGP in case of fabricating evidence to frame people in 2002 riots

Gujarat HC grants bail to ex-DGP in case of fabricating evidence to frame people in 2002 riots

The court observed that the entire case is based on documentary evidence which is in the custody of the investigating agency.

thehindu.com/news/national/oth

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Biren Singh is the Modi of 2002

The Prime Minister cannot criticise or sack the Manipur Chief Minister, for the latter is pursuing the anti-minority model that the former had invented 21 years ago.

mid-day.com/news/opinion/artic

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Supreme Court grants bail to Teesta Setalvad in post-Godhra riots case, sets aside Gujarat HC order

The three-judge Bench found that Ms. Setalvad had not been questioned even once by the police in the case after the Supreme Court granted her interim bail in September last year.

thehindu.com/news/national/sup

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Supreme Court fixes Bilkis Bano’s case against remission to convicts on August 7

Supreme Court fixes Bilkis Bano’s case against remission to convicts on August 7

A Bench of Justices B.V. Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan recorded that service of notice of the case to the various released convicts and other parties have been completed

thehindu.com/news/national/sup

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Hope SC's Relief for Teesta Sends Message to Trial and High Courts

The SC's Saturday order in the Teesta Setalvad case shows that excess of any kind is not judicial statesmanship, writes Sanjay Hegde.

thequint.com/opinion/hope-supr

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SC grants interim relief to Teesta after Gujarat HC rejects bail petition

High Court tells activist to surrender immediately; SC asks at late-night hearing: What’s the urgency, will heavens fall?

indianexpress.com/article/indi

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The Indian Express - Gujarat High Court rejects Teesta Setalvad’s bail plea, asks her to ‘surrender immediately’

Gujarat High Court rejects Teesta Setalvad’s bail plea, asks her to ‘surrender immediately’

The Gujarat Police had arrested Mumbai-based activist Teesta Setalvad on June 25, 2022, on alleged charges of conspiring to falsely implicate innocent people in connection with the 2002 Gujarat riots. The Supreme Court had later granted her bail.

indianexpress.com/article/citi

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The Washington Post - Modi’s political party has weaponized Bollywood

Modi’s political party has weaponized Bollywood

An interesting film industry report found that more than 60 percent of the “Kashmir Files” audience were not regular cinemagoers, and that many were drawn to it by a word-of-mouth marketing campaign with its roots in BJP messaging, writes Rana Ayyub.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/20

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BBC News - NCERT textbooks: Why some Indian scholars are disowning books they wrote

NCERT textbooks: Why some Indian scholars are disowning books they wrote

The academics said they objected to the "innumerable and irrational cuts and large deletions" as they failed to see "any pedagogic rationale" behind the changes.

bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-

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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.

livelaw.in/news-updates/gujara

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Rights groups to screen BBC Modi documentary in Washington ahead of Indian PM's visit

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have invited policy makers, journalists and analysts to a screening in Washington of a BBC documentary on Narendra Modi that questioned the Indian prime minister's leadership during the 2002 Gujarat riots, ahead of his state visit to the White House.

reuters.com/world/rights-group

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The New York Times - Opinion | In India’s Gang Rape Culture, All Women Are Victims

In India’s Gang Rape Culture, All Women Are Victims

Reports of violence against women in India have risen steadily over the decades, with some researchers citing a growing willingness by victims to come forward. Each rape desensitizes and prepares society to accept the next one, the evil becoming banal, writes Vidya Krishnan.

nytimes.com/2023/06/02/opinion

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Bilkis Bano case convicts playing for time: Supreme Court judge K.M. Joseph

Justice Joseph noted that time was running out for him, with his retirement now just days away.

thehindu.com/news/national/bil

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Gujarat Riot Survivor Bilkis Bano's 20-Year Wait For Justice Is Reopened—Again—In The Supreme Court

Moving home 30 times in 20 years, the last time in August 2022, after the Gujarat government freed 11 of those who raped her and murdered her family. Enduring death threats, battling on and keeping the faith, while other Gujarat riots cases collapsed, as indeed the latest one did on 21 April 2023. Bilkis Bano's long haul for justice stood in for all the hundreds who were raped and killed in 2002. She is back at the Supreme Court, refusing to give up.

article-14.com/post/gujarat-ri

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Defamation case: Gujarat HC judge hearing Rahul’s plea was Maya Kodnani’s lawyer

Justice Hemant M Prachak defended Kodnani in criminal case number 1708/12 against the Special SIT court in one of the cases following riots in Naroda Patiya and Naroda Gam areas of Ahmedabad in February 2002 where more than a hundred Muslims, including women and children, were killed.

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Kerala likely to teach NCERT's deleted portions in state schools

The committee, which met on Tuesday, has entrusted General Education Minister V Sivankutty with taking a final decision on the matter after consulting with the government.

newindianexpress.com/states/ke

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