2002 Gujarat Riots
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Bilkis Bano case: Gujarat High Court grants 10-day parole to convict for nephew’s marriage
This was the second instance of a convict in the case getting parole this month.
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Bilkis Bano case: 11 convicts surrender at Godhra sub-jail
The Supreme Court had quashed the remission given to the convicts and ordered them to surrender before jail authorities by January 21.
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Bilkis Bano case: Supreme Court refuses to extend deadline for convicts to surrender
The men had cited various reasons, including aged parents, ill health and crop harvest, to seek more time to surrender.
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Bilkis Bano case: Supreme Court agrees to hear pleas of five convicts seeking more time to surrender
On January 8, the court quashed the Gujarat government order granting remission to the convicts and asked them to surrender within two weeks.
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Gujarat HC upholds life sentence of ex-IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in 1990 custodial torture case
The court held that Bhatt and a former police constable had been ‘rightly convicted’ of murder under the Indian Penal Code.
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‘Feel like I can breathe again’, says Bilkis Bano after SC quashes remission to 11 convicts
The 43-year-old said that after the verdict, she ‘smiled for the first time in over a year-and-a-half’.
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Gujarat government withdraws security of witnesses, former judge in 2002 riots cases
The Special Investigation Team had formed the witness protection cell based on recommendations by the Supreme Court in nine cases related to the riots.
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‘Law is noble profession,’ says SC after being told that convict in Bilkis Bano case is lawyer
The Supreme Court said that the Bar Council of India should look into whether a convict can practise law.
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‘What’s wrong with garlanding relative who comes out of jail?’: Top law officer in Bilkis Bano case
Apart from relatives and neighbours, a man who identified himself as an RSS member had also garlanded the convicts on their release last year.
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The Reel
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The story of India’s unique ‘Milk Revolution’ is going to the Cannes Film Festival
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The story behind the ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’ title track: ‘Just write very simple poetry’
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Ex-DGP RB Sreekumar granted bail by High Court in Gujarat riots forgery case
The order came less than a month after the Supreme Court granted bail to activist Teesta Setalvad, who is also an accused person in the case.
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Gujarat court dismisses activist Teesta Setalvad’s discharge plea
The activist is an accused in a case of alleged forgery and fabrication of evidence related to the 2002 Gujarat riots.
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Supreme Court grants bail to Teesta Setalvad, says Gujarat HC order was ‘perverse’
On July 1, the High Court had asked the activist to surrender immediately in a case linked to 2002 riots.
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The Field
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