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TopicGodhra riots

Topic: Godhra riots

‘Before Godhra, Gujarat witnessed over 250 significant riots. None after’—Modi on Lex Fridman podcast

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.

Bilkis Bano rape convicts not missing, in ‘deep introspection’, say families

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.

‘Rule of law must prevail’ — why SC sent 11 convicts released early in Bilkis Bano case back to jail

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.

‘No direct evidence’ against accused — why Gujarat court acquitted 35 in 20-yr-old Godhra riots case

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’.

Witness saw them as ‘saviours’, not rioters’ — why Mumbai court acquitted 2 in 2002 Best Bakery case

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.

Ahmedabad court acquits all accused in 2002 Naroda Gam riots, including BJP’s Maya Kodnani

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.

Godhra a battle of ‘prestige’ for RSS-BJP. Bilkis Bano convicts, 2002, Ram Bhakts are key

Analysis of Godhra's past election data reveals seat has always seen neck-and-neck fierce battles between Congress & BJP & winning margin has never crossed 3000 votes since 2002.

Bilkis Bano case shows India does not value women as equal citizens

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

Victimisation, bad mahaul, Hindu-Muslim bond: Bilkis convicts try to push claims of innocence

Most of the 11 convicts released, returned to Gujarat's Singvad, which now wears a nonchalant, but uneasy calm. The village was also home to Bano’s family till 2002. Her uncle still lives there.

‘Our hearts sank’ — Bilkis Bano’s husband talks of safety fears as rape-murder convicts set free

11 convicts sentenced to life for committing gang rape and murder during the 2002 Gujarat riots were released this week after state government approved their remission application.

On Camera

China will be more central to India now. Though an anti-US unity is premature

Even with the option of EU markets, China will have to be a significant part of India’s economic policy. But the difficult security relationship is an important complication.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.