Archive for March 27th, 2010

Gujarat riots: Narendra Modi appears before SIT

Chief minister Narendra Modi appeared before the Supreme Court-appointed SIT today and was questioned for the first time for his role in the 2002 Gujarat riots that have come back to haunt him. Ending the suspense as to where he would appear, the 59-year-old senior BJP leader drove to the Special Investigation Team (SIT) office [...]

Satyendra Dubey murder: Three get life imprisonment

Three persons were sentenced to life imprisonment by a special CBI court for murdering NHAI engineer Satyendra Dubey, the young whistleblower who had exposed corruption in the Golden Quadrilateral highway project in Bihar, in 2003. Special CBI court judge Raghvendra Singh found Mantu Kumar, Udai Kumar, Pinku Ravidas guilty of murdering the 31-year-old IIT-Kanpur alumni [...]