Haren pandya

Yogesh Chander Modi Nationality Occupation Yearsactive 1984 - Current Employer Organization Yogesh Chander Modi (Y.C. Modi) (YC Modi) is the former Director-General/chief of the Career in Indian Police Service [ ] Y.C. Modi worked with the Recognition [ ] He was awarded with the Police Medal for Meritorious Service in 2001 and the Notable Cases [ ] Y.C. Modi was part of a Controversy related to the Haren Pandya Case [ ] Another key case he handled in Gujarat during his posting in the CBI during the tenure of The Supreme Court has vindicated the investigation done by the team headed by Y.C. Modi in its judgement on July 5, 2019. A Division Bench comprising Justices Arun Mishra and Vineet Saran overturned the High Court's judgement and observed, "The CBI has investigated the case thoroughly and minutely and the conspiracy between accused persons has been found established. There is voluminous evidence discussed in criminal appeals decided today vide separate judgment with respect to the complicity of the accused persons in the offence. It cannot be said that investigation was unfair, lopsided, botched up or misdirected in any manner whatsoever, as had been observed by the High Court in the judgment which we have set aside...The observations made by the High Court in the judgment which we have set aside were based on lopsided approach without consideration of the entire evidence on record and on the wholly incorrect appreciation of the evidence which was clearly perverse." Se...

The daylight murder of Haren Pandya, Narendra Modi's main rival in the Gujarat BJP, has come as the first major blow to the Chief Minister after the December 2002 Assembly elections. JUST as people thought Gujarat was on the road to recovery, the State was put on red alert again after former Home Minister Haren Pandya, Chief Minister Narendra Modi's main opponent within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was shot dead. Pandya was killed at 7-40 a.m. on March 26 a.m. by two unidentified assailants who shot five bullets at him when he had just finished his morning walk in the Law Gardens in Ahmedabad. His body lay in his car for two hours. Pandya's family started worrying when he did not return home and sent his personal assistant Nilesh Bhatt to check on him. Bhatt found him lying dead in his car. The BJP high command had recently decided to appoint him to the party's national executive. The assassination shocked politicians and ordinary people in the State alike. It dealt a blow to Modi's popularity, particularly because his main election promise was to make Gujarat free of fear. The popular sentiment was that if this could happen to a BJP leader, in broad daylight, then it could happen to anyone. When Modi visited the hospital where the slain leader's body was taken, Pandya's followers heckled him. Outraged at Modi's inability to protect a senior BJP leader, they demanded his resignation. Pandya's father Vitthalbhai refused to let Modi garland his body. "Why have you come ...

Tulsiram Prajapati killing Knownfor death in custody Tulsiram Prajapati was a man, who was killed while in custody at 5 am on 26 December 2005. On 8 April 2011, the Arrests [ ] The case came into prominence in 2012, when the CBI, in its chargesheet, listed Gujarat home minister and leading According to the The encounter killing took place in Possible involvement in Haren Pandya assassination [ ] In September 2013, after six years in prison, CBI reconstruction of the case [ ] The CBI and a team of forensic science experts reconstructed the alleged fake encounter of Tulsi Prajapati by Gujarat police in 2006 at Chhapri village in the district on July 8, 2011. The team headed by Rajendra Singh of the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL), and See also [ ] • References [ ] • NDTV.com. 18 October 2012. • ^ a b Venkatesan, J. (25 January 2012). The Hindu– via www.thehindu.com. • • • Business Standard India. Press Trust of India. 2018-12-21 . Retrieved 2022-05-05. • • Langa, Mahesh; Singh, Vijaita (2018-12-20). The Hindu. . Retrieved 2022-05-05. • www.tehelka.com. Archived from • Vinay Kumar (January 10, 2012). The Hindu. • . Retrieved 2013-10-04. • PTI (Sep 3, 2013). • . Retrieved 2013-09-30. • Vinod K Jose (March 2012). . Retrieved 2013-09-30. • . Retrieved 2013-09-30. • . Retrieved 21 April 2016.

By India Today Web Desk: The Supreme Court on Friday convicted 12 persons for killing former Gujarat home minister Haren Pandya in 2003. A bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra allowed the appeals of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Gujarat government challenging the high court order by which the convicts were absolved of murder charges in the case. The appeals were filed by the CBI and the state police questioning the August 29, 2011 acquittal by the Gujarat High Court as being erroneous. The high court, while acquitting the 12 persons of the charges of murder, had upheld the trial court's decision to convict them of the charges of criminal conspiracy, attempt to murder and for the offences under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA). The Supreme Court had on January 31 this year reserved the verdict on the appeals in the matter. On January 5, 2012, the top court had admitted the appeals filed by the CBI and state against the high court's judgement. The high court, while criticising the CBI for botched-up investigation in the case, had said, "What clearly stands out from the record of the present case is that the investigation in the case of murder of Haren Pandya has all through been botched up and blinkered and has left a lot to be desired." The accused were earlier convicted for a larger conspiracy by a special POTA court on the basis of deposition of main accused Asghar Ali, who had admitted to their plan to attack prominent VHP and other Hindu leaders...

SC refuses plea for fresh probe or reinvestigation into Haren Pandya killing Pandya,who was the Minister in the then Narendra Modi government, was shot dead on March 26, 2003, in Ahmedabad near the Law Garden area during his morning walk. July 05, 2019 12:06 pm | Updated July 15, 2019 04:36 pm IST - NEW DELHI The Supreme Court on Friday declined to order further investigation or reinvestigation into the murder of former Gujarat Home Minister Haren Pandya in 2003. In a 234-page judgment, a Bench of Justices Arun Mishra and M.R. Shah said the case had attained finality and a PIL based on newspaper reports, statement by witness Azam Khan and “conjectures” arrived in a book cannot be the basis of a court ordering further probe or reinvestigation. The court said the PIL was filed by NGO Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL), represented by advocate Prashant Bhushan, with an “oblique motive” at the instance of the accused persons in the case. The PIL was based on materials given to the NGO by the accused persons, the judgment said. “In all fairness, such petition ought not to have been filed by CPIL at the instance of accused, it is clearly misused of forum of PIL. Only an application could have been preferred by the accused persons or by the petitioner or any other interested person in the criminal appeals. Even otherwise, we have not found on merits any material or ground worthy to direct further investigation or reinvestigation in the case,” the judgment noted. The cou...

Gujarat police officer YA Shaikh, who had investigated the mysterious killing of BJP leader and former Gujarat Home Minister Haren Pandya in 2003 before it was taken over by the CBI, has called for the case to be reinvestigated. Pandya was killed in mysterious circumstances on 26 March 2003, with his body being found in his car near the Law Garden Area of Ahmedabad. After the CBI took over the Haren Pandya murder case, 12 Muslims were identified as accused, with their motive for the murder purportedly being to take revenge for the riots. All the accused were acquitted by the Gujarat HC in 2011, as the latter slammed the investigation as “botched up and blinkered” and leaving “a lot to be desired”. Many have speculated that there was a political conspiracy behind the former minister’s killing. The case once again came into the spotlight in November last year when a prosecution witness in the Sohrabuddin case reportedly said that he was told by Sohrabuddin Sheikh that the contract of killing Pandya “was given to him by Vanzara” (Gujarat police official DG Vanzara). The witness, Azam Khan, went on to purportedly claim, “I told the CBI officer about my discussion with Sohrabuddin at his house in Udaipur and the killing of Shri Hariyan Pandya by Tulsiram and one boy at the instance of Sohrabuddin…” Several details pertaining to the death of Haren Pandya – including the time when he was murdered, the state in which he was found murdered – have not been adequately addressed till ...

Former Gujarat minister of state for home Haren Pandya was one of the important witnesses who had accused the Modi administration of allowing the 2002 anti-minority riots in which 1,200 people were killed. He had even testified before the Concerned Citizens Tribunal (CCT) on 2002 Gujarat riots. HT Image Pandya, then juniour revenue minister, had told the tribunal that chief minister Narendra Modi had convened a meeting on the evening of February 27, 2002 after the train burning incident at Godhara and reportedly told the police to go slow on Hindus who were angry as 59 kar sevaks had been killed in Godhra. "The tribunal received direct information through a testimony from a highly placed source of a meeting (on February 27, 2002) where the CM, two or three senior cabinet colleagues, the Ahmedabad police commissioner and an IG police were present. The meeting had a singular purpose: the senior-most police officials were told that they should expect a "Hindu reaction" after Godhra. They were also told they should not do anything to contain this reaction," the tribunal noted in the report referring to Pandya’s testimony. Now, former Bombay high court judge Hosbet Suresh, who was a member, along with former Supreme Court judge PB Sawant, of the body headed by justice Krishna Iyer, has revealed that even audio recording of Pandya’s testimony exists. Justice Suresh had told the SIT about Pandya’s testimony, which can be treated as evidence against Modi. However, SIT officials cl...

Slain BJP leader Haren Pandya’s wife Jagruti Pandya today said that she recently met Asgar Ali, the man acquitted by court of killing her husband, at an Andhra jail. “On Tuesday, I visited Visakhapatnam jail in Andhra Pradesh and met Ali, who was initially accused by CBI of my husband’s murder but later acquitted by Gujarat High Court,” Jagruti told reporters here. Pandya, a former minister of state for home in the Narendra Modi government in Gujarat who had later fallen out with the chief minister, was shot dead on March 26, 2003, near Law Garden area of the city during his morning walk. “I wanted to meet him ever since he had been here at Sabarmati jail to find out the truth behind his role (in Pandya’s murder),” she said. “My meeting with Ali lasted for two-and-a-half hours in which he narrated how, on the instance of CBI, he was framed in the case and how he was tortured to make a false confession,” Jagruti said. She also alleged that Ali had no knowledge of her husband’s murder until his arrest by CBI on April 20, 2003. After being acquitted by Gujarat High Court in the Pandya murder case, Ali was, however, arrested by Andhra Pradesh police in connection with another murder. He is at present lodged in Visakhapatnam jail. “He told me that he had never visited Gujarat before April 2003, when a team of Gujarat police... brought him to the city (before his) arrest by CBI,” she said. Within two days of Pandya’s murder, CBI had, at the state government’s request, taken over...

AHMEDABAD: The CBI is learnt to have got some fresh clues to the sensational killing of former Gujarat home minister During his interrogation by a CBI team, led by DIG Sandeep Tamagde, Vanzara hinted at a political conspiracy behind Pandya's killing, sources said. Vanzara reportedly spoke about the role of Sohrabuddin in Pandya's murder here in March 2003, sources said. However, it is doubtful if the CBI would reopen the case, investigated by it earlier. All the accused in the Pandya case were acquitted by the Gujarat high court. The CBI has challenged the acquittal in the Supreme Court. Pandya's family had all along claimed a "political conspiracy" behind his killing. Vanzara's revelations came during his four-hour interrogation in Sabarmati jail on his recent explosive resignation letter from the IPS in which he had squarely blamed another former home minister,