The concerned citizens of Gujarat have registered strong moral outrage at the shocking disclosures made in the Tehelka-AajTak expose on the Gujarat carnage 2002.

“The expose alludes to the direct involvement of the elected members of the State Assembly, Cabinet Ministers of Government of Gujarat, the administration officials, and the police and judicial machinery in carrying out the carnage,” said a statement released on October 29.

“We also conde...

Justice Navanethem Pillay, judge at the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC), has expresseded concern at the evidence of state complicity in the Gujarat violence of 2002.

Delivering a lecture on ‘State accountability for crimes against humanity and genocide’ at Jamia Millia Islamia in the Capital on October 29 evening, she said in reply to a question that the ICC could not do anything in the matter as India is not a signatory to the Rome Statute ...

Advocate Arvind Pandya, who represents the Gujarat government in some Gujarat 2002 riot cases and also in the Nanavati Inquiry Commission, tendered his resignation to authorities concerned on October 27.

This first victim of the Tehelka sting “Operation Kalank,” who figured in the programme, also filed an FIR against Aaj Tak, its Gujarat bureau-chief Dhimant Purohit and two Tehelka scribes under Sections 406, 420, 451, 469, 499, 500, 501, ...

A court in Orissa on October 29 sentenced Dara Singh to life imprisonment for the murder of a Muslim trader, Shaikh Rehman, in 1999.

Baripada district and sessions judge Sachidananda Sahu pronounced the sentence on the basis of the statement of a village guard, who was witness to Rehman’s murder at Padiabeda on August 26, 1999, reports said quoting court sources.

The judge, however, acquitted others charged with the crime, Singh’s lawyer Prabhas Kumar Sah...