The Bhopal gas tragedy verdict continued to roil the political firmament, forcing the Centre to reconstitute a Group of Ministers on Wednesday to go into a “range of issues” on the world’s worst industrial disaster in 1984, including relief and rehabilitation for the victims.
The Union home minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, will head the 10-member body.
The GoM under Mr Chidambaram will comprise Union ministers, Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad, Mr Jairam Ramesh, Mr S. Jaipal Reddy, Mr M.K. Alagiri and Mr Kamal Nath.
The Madhya Pradesh minister in charge of rehabilitation will be part of the GoM.
The decision to reconstitute the GoM came amid a growing uproar as more skeletons tumbled out of how former Union Carbide Corporation chairman Warren Anderson was given bail immediately after his December 1984 arrest.
Meanwhile, with questions being raised over its role in Anderson’s non-extradition in Bhopal case, the external affairs ministry said it has time and again requested for his extradition, which has been turned down by the US for want of more “evidential links”.
Maintaining that the ministry has “renewed the request for an extradition on a number of occasions from the time it was first made in 2003 to September 2008, when the last request was made,” a senior official said the MEA will “proceed on the basis of the collective decision of the government” on the issue.
“We will proceed on the basis of the collective decision of the government now. The government of India will take a decision how to move forward, legal authorities will be consulted... Government of India will take a decision, and we will proceed accordingly.”
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Thursday, June 10, 2010
Monday, May 3, 2010
Court to decide fate of Kasab, two Indians
Elaborate security arrangements have been made in and around the Arthur Road Central jail where a special court would on Monday decide the fate of Pakistani gunman Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab and two Indians for their alleged role in the 26/11 terror attacks.
“The prosecution has prepared a watertight case against all the three accused and we hope the verdict would be in our favour,” special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam told PTI.
Kasab is facing the charge of killing 166 persons by indiscriminately firing and hurling hand grenades at various places on November 26, 2008.
Faheem Ansari and Sabauddin Ahmed, both Indians, are charged with drawing maps of targets and passing them on to Lashkar-e-Taiba to execute the diabolic terror attacks.
Among the places targeted by the terrorists were Chhatrapati Shivaji Railway Terminus, Nariman House, Cama Hospital, Hotel Taj Mahal, Hotel Oberoi-Trident and Metro junction. At some of these places, terrorists held siege for close to 60 hours before being killed by security forces in a pitched battle.
While Kasab was caught alive at Girgaum Chowpatty when he was trying to escape in a car, nine other gunmen were shot dead by police and security forces.
The three accused have been tried under the provisions of various acts including IPC, Bombay Police Act, Passport Act, Customs Act, Foreigners Act, Damage to Public Property Act, Railways Act, and Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.
Defence lawyer K.P. Pawar said, “We have done our best to convince the court that Kasab is innocent and falsely implicated in the 26/11 terror attack case. Now it is for the court to decide.”
The Arthur Road jail has become a fortress with large number of police personnel posted at various vantage points on Sane Guruji Marg which has been made one way for the traffic movements.
Inside the jail, 200 Indo-Tibetan Border Security guards are providing security cover to Ajmal Kasab who held the city under siege with his associates at the behest of LeT for more than two days from November 26, 2008.
Kasab is lodged in a bullet and bomb proof cell which is covered by iron sheets from all sides. The court is also built with equally strong iron reinforcements to make it bullet and bomb proof.
The other two accused are lodged in separate cells elsewhere in the jail.
Special passes have been issued to media personnel, lawyers, court staff and family members of the accused for their entry into the court. There are at least three entry points where everyone is frisked thoroughly. Pens and cell phones have been prohibited inside the court.
The prosecution had filed a 11,000 page chargesheet against Kasab and two other accused and examined 658 witnesses during the one year-long trial described in legal circles as the fastest ever among the terror cases in India.
“The prosecution has prepared a watertight case against all the three accused and we hope the verdict would be in our favour,” special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam told PTI.
Kasab is facing the charge of killing 166 persons by indiscriminately firing and hurling hand grenades at various places on November 26, 2008.
Faheem Ansari and Sabauddin Ahmed, both Indians, are charged with drawing maps of targets and passing them on to Lashkar-e-Taiba to execute the diabolic terror attacks.
Among the places targeted by the terrorists were Chhatrapati Shivaji Railway Terminus, Nariman House, Cama Hospital, Hotel Taj Mahal, Hotel Oberoi-Trident and Metro junction. At some of these places, terrorists held siege for close to 60 hours before being killed by security forces in a pitched battle.
While Kasab was caught alive at Girgaum Chowpatty when he was trying to escape in a car, nine other gunmen were shot dead by police and security forces.
The three accused have been tried under the provisions of various acts including IPC, Bombay Police Act, Passport Act, Customs Act, Foreigners Act, Damage to Public Property Act, Railways Act, and Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.
Defence lawyer K.P. Pawar said, “We have done our best to convince the court that Kasab is innocent and falsely implicated in the 26/11 terror attack case. Now it is for the court to decide.”
The Arthur Road jail has become a fortress with large number of police personnel posted at various vantage points on Sane Guruji Marg which has been made one way for the traffic movements.
Inside the jail, 200 Indo-Tibetan Border Security guards are providing security cover to Ajmal Kasab who held the city under siege with his associates at the behest of LeT for more than two days from November 26, 2008.
Kasab is lodged in a bullet and bomb proof cell which is covered by iron sheets from all sides. The court is also built with equally strong iron reinforcements to make it bullet and bomb proof.
The other two accused are lodged in separate cells elsewhere in the jail.
Special passes have been issued to media personnel, lawyers, court staff and family members of the accused for their entry into the court. There are at least three entry points where everyone is frisked thoroughly. Pens and cell phones have been prohibited inside the court.
The prosecution had filed a 11,000 page chargesheet against Kasab and two other accused and examined 658 witnesses during the one year-long trial described in legal circles as the fastest ever among the terror cases in India.
Friday, February 19, 2010
Three convicted in Surat gangrape case
Three youths were on Friday convicted by a district court here for abducting and gang-raping a minor girl in a moving car last year.
District Judge R.P. Dholariya found the three — Sahid Sayyed, Tariq Sayyed and Abu Bakar — guilty of abducting the 17-year-old girl while she was on her way to coaching classes and raping her in a moving car on June 12 last year.
The incident that shocked the city last year took place when the girl and her male friend were going for tuitions in the morning.
The three youth came in their car and forced the two inside the car, saying they were policemen. The duo were taken to a secluded location where the boy, also studying in Class 12, was tied up inside the car by the accused, who then raped the girl in turns.
The ordeal continued for more than two hours after which they were left them at the same spot from where they were abducted.
Two of the accused in the case, Sahid Sayyed and Tariq Sayyed, are cousins. While Sahid is son of circle inspector of Dholka town of Ahmedabad district, Tariq is the son of a police constable who is serving with the Surat city police.
District Judge R.P. Dholariya found the three — Sahid Sayyed, Tariq Sayyed and Abu Bakar — guilty of abducting the 17-year-old girl while she was on her way to coaching classes and raping her in a moving car on June 12 last year.
The incident that shocked the city last year took place when the girl and her male friend were going for tuitions in the morning.
The three youth came in their car and forced the two inside the car, saying they were policemen. The duo were taken to a secluded location where the boy, also studying in Class 12, was tied up inside the car by the accused, who then raped the girl in turns.
The ordeal continued for more than two hours after which they were left them at the same spot from where they were abducted.
Two of the accused in the case, Sahid Sayyed and Tariq Sayyed, are cousins. While Sahid is son of circle inspector of Dholka town of Ahmedabad district, Tariq is the son of a police constable who is serving with the Surat city police.
