|
India Thinkers Net Archives Index
|
Subscribe
|
|
| << October07, 2003 - [India Thinkers Net] The Mischievous advertisement . |
October10, 2003 - [India Thinkers Net] The Dowry System >> |
|
Godhra victims demand shifting of enquiry Sandeep Sonwalkar and Miloni Bhatt ndtv.com Sunday, October 5, 2003 (Gandhinagar): In a dramatic twist to the Godhra story, families of four women who died when a mob attacked the Sabarmati Express today said they want the enquiry into the carnage shifted out of Gujarat. The families say VHP and Bajrang Dal activists stopped them from deposing before the enquiry commission and even threatened them. Search for justice Eighty-two-year-old Girishbhai Raval has travelled from Gujarat to Mumbai looking for justice. A doctor by profession, Raval, who lived in Ramol, near Maninagar lost his wife Sudhaben in the Godhra train massacre and his son Ashwinbhai, a Bajranj Dal activist in the post-Godhra violence. Now the sole supporter of his granddaughter Kushboo and his daughter-in-law Belaben, Raval says he does not trust the Gujarat government to give him justice. "The government wants me to keep my mouth shut," he quips. Raval is not alone; with him are three other families with similar stories who say that after the tragedy the government and the VHP have forgotten them. They have now approached a Mumbai-based NGO -- Citizens for Justice and Peace, the same group who have taken up the case of the Best Bakery riot victim Zahira Sheikh for help and they too want their case to be shifted outside Gujarat. Best Bakery case Meanwhile, the police have said that they are ready to provide protection to the 16 eyewitnesses in the Best Bakery case related to the burning alive of 12 persons during the post-Godhra riots. But providing such protection would depend on the order of Gujarat High Court before which the state government has filed an amended petition. The case is to come up before the court on December 1. The fast track court had examined 12 out of a total of 16 witnesses in the case and summons to four other witnesses could not be served as they were outside Vadodara. Zahira??™s standpoint In the mean time, Teesta Setalwad of Communalism Combat has informed Vadodara Police Commissionerate from Mumbai that the key witness Zahira Sheikh was not interested in recording of her statement by the police team from Vadodara and would rather stick to her version in the petition filed before the Supreme Court in this regard. The police wanted to record her statement in connection with her statement in the apex court that she had turned hostile in the fast track court after receiving threats. Zahira, who had urged that the hearing be shifted out of Gujarat, has been with Setalwad since the Best Bakery verdict that had acquitted all the 21 accused for want of evidence. (With PTI inputs) ---------------------------------------------------------- Courtesy:indiistar Visit.... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/atheistsofindia |
| << October07, 2003 - [India Thinkers Net] The Mischievous advertisement . |
October10, 2003 - [India Thinkers Net] The Dowry System >> |
|
India Thinkers Net Archives Index
|
Subscribe
|
|
|
Archives powered by Zinester's Mailing List Service
Details on India Thinkers Net |
Browse for more newsletters at Zinester's Ezine Directory
Managed by Zinester's Mailing List Management |