Speaking to the US computer scientist & podcaster, Modi said that despite his political opponents' attempts to blame his govt for the 2002 riots, the courts had found them innocent.
The celebratory mood in Gujarat's villages over the release of 11 rapists has turned somber with the Supreme Court verdict. For the Muslim families, the fear of reprisal has returned.
Bench led by Justice BV Nagarathna quashes Gujarat govt's decision to allow remission of life imprisonment of convicts, rules state govt lacked jurisdiction to grant premature release.
Gujarat sessions court found lapses in police probe & witness statements, said prominent Hindu persons were ‘unnecessarily implicated’ & arrests made due to ‘uproar of pseudo-secular media’.
The court said the prosecution failed to prove that the two accused were part of the mob that 'attacked and killed' 14 people in Vadodara’s Best Bakery during 2002 Gujarat riots.
Eleven Muslims were killed in communal violence in the Naroda Gam area of Ahmedabad on 28 February that year, during a bandh called to protest the Godhra train burning a day before.
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Indeed. The post-Godhra riots put the underworld mafia of Ahmedabad in it’s place. It broke it’s spine and made sure that it is not able to stand up again.
Modi’s tenure saw gangsters being “encountered” and neutralised. That effectively eliminated the root cause for such frequent riots in Gujarat.
Indeed. The post-Godhra riots put the underworld mafia of Ahmedabad in it’s place. It broke it’s spine and made sure that it is not able to stand up again.
Modi’s tenure saw gangsters being “encountered” and neutralised. That effectively eliminated the root cause for such frequent riots in Gujarat.