DG Vanzara, NK Amin and JG Parmar, the encounter specialists of Gujarat, are in a fix yet again. Right before the 2002 Rath Yatra, news papers in Gujarat carried the news of a plan to attack the Rath Yatra which was foiled by Ahmedabad Crime Branch in a big way. The Gujarat Police claimed that they had seized large amounts of ammunition including rocket launchers, bombs, revolvers, rifles and so on. Twenty two people were arrested by a team led by Vanzara abd NK Amin. JG Parmar was the investigating officer for this case.
"he Gujarat police didn't want any untoward incident to mar the Chinese president's visit to Ahmedabad. Keeping the objective in mind, the police asked the management of the hotel where Xi Jinping was staying to ask its staff from northeast to keep away from the venue on Wednesday. According to reliable sources, the police didn't want anything or anybody to make a bad impression on Jinping.
"Echoing the views of a BJP MLA from Madhya Pradesh, firebrand VHP leader Pravin Togadia on Saturday said Muslims must not be allowed inside the Garba events and insisted identity cards of each and every person be checked for participants in and visitors to such events. "We must be alert so that not a single Muslim person can enter in our Garba festival. Identity cards of each and every person must be checked at every Garba event," Togadia said in Amreli town in Saurashtra.
"( I had spent a week in Gujarat in February-March,2007 and published two reports in TEHELKA. Reproducing the first part to remind myself that it was again in Gujarat where the fear of ‘Love Jihad’ was invented in its present incarnation.)
"Following an order of the Supreme Court on a petition on Monday, the green nod given to nine government and private projects in Gujarat by the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) has been kept in abeyance. These projects include a 40-km stretch of road passing through the Wild Ass Sanctuary and a 22-km stretch of Kutch Branch Canal of the Sardar Sarovar (Narmada) Project passing through the Kutch Desert Wildlife Sanctuary.
'In what is being seen as a gory case of official high-handedness by voluntary organizations working on Dalit rights issues, as many as eight cleaning contract workers, who were being forced to manually clean up human excreta at public places, have been sacked from their jobs for staging a protest on Independence-day eve.
The Gujarat Government has done it again! That it does so, is on expected lines; but that it is doing so by throwing all caution and Constitutional propriety to the wind should be a cause of great concern to every citizen who values the principles of democracy and pluralism, which are the heart and soul of India. The topic in question is the approval and introduction of nine books (eight of which are written and edited by Dina Nath Batra) in more than 42,000 Government-run primary and secondary schools all over Gujarat.
"The Vadodara Police have booked members of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad for brandishing swords and daggers at a rally to mark the 50 years of the saffron organization in the city. Members partaking in the rally passed through communally sensitive areas at at least two points in the city, wielding swords and holding banners with the message: “Yachna nahi Rann hoga”. With the dates for the bypolls of the Vadodara Parliamentary Constituency already declared and the Model Code of Conduct in place, VHP members violated the rules by carrying weapons.
"The Gujarat government has reinstated an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, who is an accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case and has given him a plum posting as Superintendent, DGP Vigilance Squad, according to a Gujarat state home department notification issued Thursday midnight. Abhay Chudasama who spent four years in prison, is the first Sohrabuddin Sheikh case accused IPS official to be reinstated by the Gujarat state government. Earlier, the Gujarat state government had reinstated IPS officer G L Singhal who is an accused in Ishrat Jahan encounter case..."
