Zakia Jafri case

ZAKIA JAFRI CASE NEWS

'False' evidence were affidavits filed in SC, not before police: Setalvad's counsel in HC

June 13, 2023 12:06 am

The court of Justice Nirzar Desai will continue hearing the matter Tuesday.

India@75, Looking@100: On the road to 2047, the state of our democracy cannot be a distant concern

March 15, 2023 8:27 pm

Even as our society and nation lurch towards a future in which even the rudimentary semblances of democracy and decency are defied, we are increasingly witness to a shrinking support base of persons who can struggle and assert the need for these indispensable norms

21 years after Godhra riots, Zakia Jafri visits Ahmedabad home: ‘She misses it’

March 01, 2023 10:00 am

Of the 66 accused, six died during the pendency of the trial, while 24 were convicted by the special trial court in 2016 of whom 11 were sentenced to life for murder (conviction under IPC section 302).

SC dismisses Zakia Jafri plea: ‘Disappointed with verdict… will decide on future course after returning from Mecca’, says Zakia son

June 25, 2022 7:36 am

Tanveer Jafri, who resides in Surat, said he was handling the legal battle as his 82-year old mother had a hearing problem and could not stand or walk for extended periods.

SC dismisses Zakia Jafri's plea against clean chit to Narendra Modi in 2002 riots case: A timeline of how it played out

June 24, 2022 2:44 pm

Ehsan Jafri, a former MP, was among 68 killed at Gulberg Society in Ahmedabad on February 28, 2002, a day after a coach of the Sabarmati Express was burnt at Godhra, killing 59 people and triggering riots in the state.

Godhra riots plea: Nobody raised questions before, Setalvad driving plea, SIT tells SC

December 10, 2021 6:27 am

🔴 Rohatgi said that the SIT had given one report in 2010 concluding that there was no cognisable material.

Didn’t cite 2002 riots larger conspiracy while deposing in Gulberg case since only was witness: Zakia to SC

December 09, 2021 7:29 am

🔴 Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, who appeared for Jafri, told a bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar that being a prosecution witness, she had to confine her statements to what she knew about the particular case.

SIT in 2002 riots itself should be probed, Zakia Jafri tells SC

November 12, 2021 2:20 am

Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, who appeared for Zakia Jafri, said: “there was to be an investigation.... If there is no investigation, what was the purpose of the Supreme Court constituting the SIT?”

Bombay HC grants interim bail to Teesta, husband

January 11, 2014 4:52 am

Setalvad also contended that this was the fifth case registered against her in Gujarat because of her support to the riots victims.

Ex-DGP Sreekumar's security cover lifted

September 28, 2013 4:11 am

Incidentally,Sreekumar’s security was withdrawn on September 24,although he was officially informed only on September 26.

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