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By BOOM Team Despite government criticism of the documentary, a number of student organisations have scheduled screenings of 'India: The Modi Question' on campuses across the country. The two-part documentary looks back at the 2002 Gujarat riots and claims that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was the state's chief minister at the time, was “directly responsible for a climate of impunity” that contributed to the carnage. The Centre snubbed the documentary as "propaganda" and said the documentary lacked "objectivity" and showed a "continued colonial mindset". While Opposition leaders have crit...
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By BOOM Team The Indian government on Friday directed YouTube and Twitter to take down links to the BBC documentary 'India: The Modi Question'. The directions were issued by the Ministry of Information and Broadcast on Friday, invoking powers under the IT Rules, 2021. Kanchan Gupta, a senior advisor at the ministry, had said both Twitter and YouTube complied with taking down the said links. The documentary reveals a never-before-published report that a British inquiry team had sent to the United Kingdom government. The report says that Modi was “directly responsible for a climate of impunity” ...
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By BOOM Team A BBC documentary series titled 'The Modi Question' that revives some age-old questions on the Gujarat riots of 2002 has led to political debates in India and in the UK. The documentary reveals a never-before-published report that the British inquiry team had sent to the United Kingdom government. The report says that Narendra Modi, who was then the state’s chief minister, was “directly responsible for a climate of impunity” that led to the violence in the Gujarat riots. In February 2002, anti-Muslimriots broke out in several parts of Gujarat after at least 58 Hindu pilgrims retur...
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By Ritika Jain Supreme Court on Friday granted interim bail to social activist Teesta Setalvad and directed authorities to release her tomorrow after the formalities were complete. The Supreme Court observed that Setalvad has been in custody for more than two months and the police machinery had the advantage of custodial interrogation for seven days. The bench led by Chief Justice of India UU Lalit directed Setalvad to surrender her passport before the concerned court which will also decide on bail conditions it sees fit. "It would be open to the concerned court to consider interim bail by acc...
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By Sana Fazili The faculty and the staff of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM-Bangalore) have written to the Chief Justice of India expressing their support and solidarity with Bilkis Bano after 11 men convicted of raping her in 2002 Gujrat riots were released under the remission policy on August 15. "Bilkis Bano, who survived to tell the tale, fought for justice for over seventeen years," the IIM Bangalore faculty said in the letter written in their "personal capacity." Also Read:Bilkis Bano Case: SC Issues Notice On Early Release of 11 Convicts Expressing shock and "anguish" ...
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By Ritika Jain Days after the 11 convicts walked out of Godhra sub-jail, the outrage over their release has not abated with at least two pleas in the Supreme Court challenging their release. On Tuesday, at least two pleas challenged the Gujarat government's release of 11 persons convicted of gangraping Bilkis Bano and murdering 14 members of her family while they were fleeing their home during the 2002 communal riots in the state. The plea filed by CPI (M) leader Subhashini Ali, journalist Revati Laul and Professor Roop Rekha Verma sought to set aside the remission order and the immediate re-a...
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By Sana Fazili In an interesting development in the Bilkis Bano case, 11 convicts serving life sentence for murder and gangrape were set free from the Godhra sub-jail on Monday after their application for remission of the sentence was accepted by the state government. A committee was constituted after the order from the Supreme Court. "Good behaviour and compliance with the jail rules" by the convicts were some of the factors that made their case for remission(or premature release) stronger, Sujal Mayatra, the head of the committee and Panchmahal district collector told BOOM. The 11 convicts i...
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By Ritika Jain An Ahmedabad sessions court on July 30 denied bail to activist Teesta Setalvad and former Gujarat Director General of Police (DGP) RB Sreekumar saying it appeared that they used victim Zakia Jafri as "a tool" to defame then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, by accusing his government of sponsoring the 2002 Godhra Riots. The sessions court said Setalvad and Sreekumar intended to defame Gujarat in the country and globally with the "ulterior motive" to obtain "monetary benefit" from "one political faction". The court observed that by granting bail to Setalvad and Sreekumar, "it...
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By Ritika Jain The Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Saturday detained activist Teesta Setalvad and former IPS officer RB Sreekumar for allegedly giving false information pertaining to the 2002 Gujarat riots case. The two were detained a day after the Supreme Court gave a clean chit to Narendra Modi, for allegedly conspiring to orchestrate the 2002 Gujarat Riots when he was the chief minister at the time. Sreekumar was the Additional Director General of Police and former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, who is also named in the FIR, was the Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence in the state Intelli...
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By Ritika Jain The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the Special Investigation Team (SIT) clean chit given to then Chief Minister Narendra Modi in connection with the 2002 Gujarat riots. The three-judge bench dismissed the challenge to the clean chit filed by slain Congress leader Ahsan Jahri's wife Zakia. "We uphold the decision of magistrate in accepting the SIT report and the decision to reject protest petition. This appeal is devoid of merits and dismissed accordingly," the bench said. The top court had reserved its judgment on Zakia Jafri's plea in December 2021 after hearing the matter in d...
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