The Supreme Court of India Friday dismissed an appeal filed by Zakia Jafri alleging a “larger conspiracy” by then-Chief Minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi and 62 other senior state officials in connection with state riots in 2002. Jafri is the widow of Ehsan Jafri, a Congress party MP who was killed in the riots. The [...]
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India Supreme Court rules for Hindus in Ayodhya holy site dispute
The Supreme Court of India issued a unanimous ruling Saturday in the decades-long Ram Janmabhoomi Babri Masjid land case, finding for the Hindus. A small plot of land about 1500 square yards in the city of Ayodhya in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has traditionally been believed by Hindus to be the birthplace [...]
India Supreme Court orders state government to compensate rape survivor
India’s Supreme Court on Monday directed the state government of Gujarat to pay 5 million Indian rupees (US$ 70,000) in two weeks as compensation to Bilkis Bano, a 40-year-old woman who was raped by a mob during an anti-Muslim pogrom in 2002. In April the court had ordered the Gujarat government to compensate Bano monetarily. [...]
When the Delhi High Court sentenced a former parliamentarian to life in prison for his role in the 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom in December, it ended an excruciating 34-year ordeal for victims of the hate crime that shook India’s national conscience and threatened to tear apart its social fabric. Spurts of sectarian violence are not uncommon in [...]
The Gujarat High Court on Thursday acquitted 14 of the 31 individuals convicted of burning more than 30 people to death in the 2002 post-Godhra Sardarpura massacre, while maintaining the sentences of the rest. The High...
A court in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, sentenced 11 people to life in prison Friday for the murder of 69 Muslims during religious riots in 2002. Over the course of the riots, which lasted for days, nearly 1,000 people were killed. A...
The Gujarat High Court in Ahmedabad, India, convicted 24 individuals on Thursday of murder and other charges related to the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in the state of Gujarat in which hundreds of Muslims were killed. The riots, which...
An Indian court in Gujarat on Friday acquitted six individuals for their roles in the deaths of three British people during the 2002 Gujarat riots . The riots began following the death of 60 Hindus in a...
Federal judge dismisses lawsuit against India PM over 2002 riots
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, agreeing with the US State Department that he is entitled to immunity...
The American Justice Center on Thursday filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of anonymous survivors against India Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York for...