2002 Gujarat Riots
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SC agrees to hear PILs on BBC documentary on 2002 Gujarat riots
•The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear pleas challenging the Centre's decision to block a BBC documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots
Why Modi and BJP want the BBC documentary to raise heat and dust
Abhijit Majumder •In every way, Narendra Modi gains from this needless controversy before the nine state elections this year and the general election next year. And a master politician like him will not let this opportunity for his opponents to malign themselves go waste
Congress veteran AK Antony's son resigns from party after uproar over BBC documentary on PM Modi
Fp Staff •Sharing his resignation letter on Twitter, Anil, who was part of the Congress's social media cell in Kerala, cited "abuses by ones supporting a trek to promote love" in an apparent reference to Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra
Explained: The ‘emergency powers’ used by India to block BBC documentary on PM Narendra Modi
Fp Explainers •The government has directed YouTube and Twitter to take down links to the BBC documentary, 'India: The Modi Question', which revisits PM Narendra Modi’s role in the 2002 Gujarat riots. Under emergency provisions of the IT Rules, 2021, it can block content ‘detrimental' to India
BBC’s hitjob on Narendra Modi not a one-off incident, shows growing British distrust for rising India
Utpal Kumar •The UK broadcaster’s ‘Modi Question’ holds as much water as Jack Straw’s WMD lie on Iraq. It may also be the British establishment’s assault against an Indian-origin prime minister at 10 Downing Street
Indian diaspora to protest outside London headquarters of ‘anti-India’ BBC
Umang Sharma •BBC's two-part documentary on the Indian Prime Minister titled - 'India: The Modi Question' - has been banned in India
Bilkis Bano moves Supreme Court: What was the gang-rape case and why were the convicts released?
Fp Explainers •Bilkis Bano has moved the Supreme Court challenging the release of 11 men convicted of gang-raping her and killing her family in the 2002 Gujarat riots. The convicts were freed on 15 August by the Gujarat government under a previous remission policy
Bilkis Bano files fresh plea before Supreme Court, challenges release of 11 convicts
Fp Staff •Bilkis Bano was allegedly gang-raped and several of her family members were killed during the Gujarat riots of 2002 that had erupted after the Godhra train burning incident. Seven of her family members were killed, including her three-year-old daughter
SC closes all cases pertaining to 2002 Gujarat riots and petitions against 1992 Babri Masjid demolition
Fp Staff •Closing all the proceedings arising out of 2002 post-Godhra riots in Gujarat, the apex court said that with the passage of time, the cases have become infructuous
2002 Gujarat riots: Supreme Court to hear activist Teesta Setalvad's bail plea on 30 August
•Setalvad and former Director General of Police (DGP) R B Sreekumar, both were arrested in June and are accused of fabricating evidence to frame ‘innocent people’ in the post-Godhra riots cases