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the arrested workers were released later.

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of the six accused, lodged in central jail, four were held in connection with the burning of a tata sumo in which at least nine occupants were charred to death at jasodanagar, while the remaining two are accused of setting ablaze an orange-laden truck near palvi tower, causing the death of two persons aboard, police said.

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but as advocates helping some of the victims are realising, the police may have skilfully manipulated many of the firs to ensure that the accused go scot-free.

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those in authority both in delhi and ahmedabad could only hem and haw at the clear evidence of police inaction during the initial stages of the riots and even later in the countryside where the cops admitted that they were not being able to do anything to control the situation.

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he confirmed that one person died in the clash and four other members vhp activists injured, as had 25 policemen.

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the raopura and panigate areas of vadodara was also placed under curfew and police took about 12 persons under curfew.

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combing operations were then carried out in a religious place which further unleashed tempers and police opened fire.

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for instance, in 1997, the police refused to let the mohalla committee intervene in golibar, santa cruz (e), even when a police atrocity led to a minor riot in the slum.

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This story is from March 10, 2002 new delhi: the all india babri masjid rebuilding committee tonight alleged that its president mohammad yunus siddiqui has been detained by police ahead of its delhi to ayodhya ''rath yatra'' programme.

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"asserting that necessary action in all major incidents had been taken promptly, modi said ""29 persons have been arrested in the naroda incident, 18 in the gulberg society incident (where former congress mp ehsan jaffri and others were killed), 46 in sardarpura (mehsana district) incident and 27 in pandarwada incident"", the release added. "

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out of the 77,571 people arrested under tada, over 2000 were let off without trial because no evidence was found against them.

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so much so that even 20 days after the riots began, the mobs have no qualms in lynching their victims despite the police cover given to them.

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"when commissionaEUR(tm)s counsel anupam gupta asked srivastava whether the crowd on december 6 was unmanageable, he replied, ""since we were led to believe that the kar seva would be symbolic and peaceful, we cannot say the crowd was unmanageable."""

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an official of the home ministry said that in all the police had fired 1649 rounds of ammunition at the mobs as well as 3027 tear-gas shells.

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the government has been tom-tomming the number of deaths in police firing, but the eye-witnesses from the riot-hit areas have a different story to tell. ''

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along with condemning the killings, people present in the meeting strongly condemned the inefficiency of the machinery.

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in the course, one person was killed in the firing.

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''''criticising the police action, vhp state convener shankar gaikar said the police had only detained those who were shouting slogans and waving flags.

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"around 10 houses were burnt but the police refused to take down the complaint individually even though i had identified two persons in the mob."""

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earlier, 322 tear-gas shells, including 214 long-range and 86 short-range, were lobbed by police who also used 22 hand-grenades to disperse the mob.

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"now it is not very difficult to identify the looters and killers since there are lot of video clipping and the eye witnesses, the culprits must immediately be arrested and booked and be punished under the law of the land"", they said. "

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"the military was pressed into service when police failed to contain the violence,"" he said."

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the sparse police presence looked like a drop in this ocean of violence.

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but for some reasons the government allowed him to leave for ayodhya.

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interrogations of several criminals arrested recently revealed that they now routinely use e-mail and sms to plan strikes.

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""" the meeting also unanimously demanded the dismissal of narendra modi government in gujarat as ""it failed not only to prevent the communal riots but turned a blind eye to the events""."

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further he questioned the state government for not taking action on the 22 personnel of gujarat railway police who were not present on duty on the day of the incident.

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the state police control room in gandhinagar has confirmed that 486 deaths have taken place in the post-godhra aftermath, including 84 persons who have been killed in police firing.

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the modi government was responsible for violence and killings in the aftermath of godhra mayhem and it was surprising that the centre had not taken any action against him so far, singh told mediapersons here.

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madhav karve, superintendent of police said 24 people were detained for a few hours on march 12, while they were attempting to board a varanasibound train.

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he forgot to say what a citizen is expected to do when a menacing mob, which has already slaughtered many, approaches him and the police has deliberately not responded to his pleas.

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and it''s with his active participation and clearance that the riots have spread like wildfire in gujarat.

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This story is from March 25, 2002 himmatnagar: police in the urban areas of gujarat have drawn most of the flak so far owing to their being in constant media glare; but out in the countryside, where scores were killed, their failure to secure lives, besides their putting obstacles in the legal process of bring the guilty to book, seems to have gone largely unnoticed.

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senior superintendent of police b k singh said the arrests were made when they came out from the roads to move to ayodhya defying prohibitory orders.

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the police arrested 72 persons from both the groups after they registered complaints of loot and plunder against each other.

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haji bilal ismail sujela, chairman of the godhra municipalityaEUR(tm)s planning committee, was arrested after a long-drawn manhunt.

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the stalemate continued for another 15 minutes before district magistrate jiwesh nandan announced that the leaders were being taken into custody under section 151.

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and had the police taken serious note of a clash between groups of muslims in dahod''s neighbouring town in december 2001, perhaps it would not have been caught totally unawares by wednesday''s macabre attack on the sabarmati express.

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police intercepted and had to fire 8 rounds.

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a total of 47 miscreants were arrested by city police in various cases, according to police commissioner m v krishna rao.

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the three were brought back to kolkata and produced before the chief metropolitan magistrate, who remanded them to police custody till march 16.

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meanwhile, the imams in a memorandum to prime minister atal bihari vajpayee condemned the killings of innocent people in gujarat and said the whole situation in the state was a typical example of total failure of the constitutional authority.

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aftab looked run down after spending over a month in the custody of different agencies.

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while six people were injured in police firing, 12 people were killed by the rioters.

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sattar, a senior clerk with the panam dam division, was taken into custody earlier along with 26 others.

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referring to arrest of a teacher in dabhel, he said that activities from any madrassas would not be allowed and persons responsible would be taken to task.

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""" the way the government had handled recent ayodhya developments, singhal said, ""can best be told by the mps who have returned from their weekend constituency visits."" a perturbed singhal, who said he did not speak out on tuesday as all members had been asked not to by the prime minister, recounted details of the meeting: ""i said i have felt agonised."

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"newspaper offices received desparate calls from angry readers complaining that while they had seen news on television about aarmy ""taking control"" in ahmedabad, they could only see mobs everywhere and no confidence-inspiring men in green."

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aEUR~aEUR~it was a regular feature to see vishwa hindu parishad cadre getting down at godhra station and shouting provocative slogans.aEUR(tm)aEUR(tm) despite the atmosphere getting vitiated and the possibility of daily provocation, the railways and the state government did not seem to have put its policemen on alert.

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here again, police was nowhere in sight and the streets were under the control of the mobs.

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two persons were killed in police firing and eight are injured of which the condition of three is said to be serious.

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five people, including two women, were injured and hospitalised.

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they meandered menacingly close to known sensitive areas and the policemen on duty did not act despite their provocative slogans that triggered fresh bouts of rioting last friday.

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besides, sharma had also arrested some persons close to bhavnagar bjp mla sunil oza, who took up the matter with chief minister narendra modi.

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police fired 14 rounds and 10 teargas shells to disperse the mobs.

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ghai, in a statement to the press, demanded the government to release the arrested aEURoeram bhaktsaEUR without any further delay.

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giriraj kishore was flanked by former mp and ex-director general of police (dgp)

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bilal and the rest of the accused have been booked under poto and for murder.

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This story is from March 11, 2002 ahmedabad: at least eight people have been arrested so far in connection with three cases of riots in labour-dominated amraiwadi area of the city, which claimed 12 lives in the aftermath of godhra train carnage in gujarat.

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meanwhile, vhp general secretary prof vynkatesh abdeo said that at least 20 of their activists have been detained by police.

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the current crisis arising out of the 52-year-old agitation for the ram temple in ayodhya came to an end in 53 minutes in lucknow with the arrest of international senior vice president of vhp acharya giriraj kishore along with a host of mps and leaders on the faizabad road in the state capital on friday morning.

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two contingents of ram sevaks numbering 100-150, from karnataka and andhra pradesh, who tried to sneak into the town through a byroad were chased away by the security forces and arrested.

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police commissioner v k gupta said 10 persons sustained injuries in the firing.

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"how a 2000-strong mob aEUR"" if that indeed was the figure aEUR"" could collect on the railway track and how the armed rpf and the grp failed to disperse them."

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related storiesA muslim groups suggest tripartite talksA vhp climbs down on temple issueA 50 kar sevaks arrested in mumbaiA ayodhya bomb ticking despite vhp assurance

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pds alleged police highhandness in taldi: the party for democratic socialism criticised the police for opening fire on the crowd at taldi on march 10 following the clash between the police and vhp supporters over ram yagna.

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he was remanded to police custody till april 1.

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while kutch sp vivek shrivastava had got a home guard commander suspended and arrested for refusing to take action against a mob, bhavnagar sp rahul sharma had ordered firing at mobs in which four persons were killed.

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patel, son of former chief minister chimanbhai patel, also wanted to know as to why the officialdom failed to predict what was in store even when the vhp gave a bandh call for february 28.

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the vhp spokesman claimed that about 8,000 devotees were there at taldih when the police intervened and 15 injured devotees were hospitalised.

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some allegations that a very senior police officer stood and watched as mobs ran riot at the naroda and meghaninagar areas would only give credence to such a line of reasoning,aEUR(tm)aEUR(tm) he added.

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the attackers fled only after the police opened fire in the air and additional forces were brought in to contain the situation.

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the dgp said the lucknow and faizabad modules of the lashkar surfaced following the arrest of some militants three months ago.

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in another case, a bench, comprising justice m b shah and justice d m dharmadhikari, again dismissed the gujarat governmentaEUR(tm)s appeal against acquittal of one vakar ahmed abdul hamid sheikh, who was arrested for the same offence and tried on the same evidence for which the apex court had dismissed the governmentaEUR(tm)s appeal relating to another accused in 1997.

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police officials said the mob was shooting at them with private firearms and in the ensuing exchange one person was killed.

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the arrests followed immediately after the visit of union home minister l k advani.

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in ahmedabad city, a 19-year-old boy was killed and two injured when police fired several rounds to disperse a mob indulging in arson and stone-throwing in astodia area under khadia police station in the walled city on tuesday afternoon, police said.

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asked to qualify how many of those killed thus had been members of the minority community, advani said the majority of people killed in police firing belonged to majority community.

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mob brandished country-made rifles, swords, spears and iron rods as the city police ducked for cover.

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naranpura was a little more stringent on the rioters and was able to arrest 31 people including 11 women belonging to respected families involved in rioting.

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a three-member police team posted in the area reportedly ran away when the mob attacked rao's home.rao's family was not present when the incident took place.

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ahmedabad: the national commission for minorities (ncm) has come down heavily on the state government and the police for their inefficiency in curbing the riots that broke out after the burning of sabarmati express at godhra.

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he said ayodhya has always been a target and this has been clear following several instances of detection of explosives and arrest of terrorists planning to strike here.

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"the memorandum, signed by state congress chief amarsinh chaudhary and others present at the dharna, said ""entire gujarat is burning"" because of the cm''s indifference, making one suspect that he had instructed the police force not to act. """

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when asked about delay in calling out army to control the riots, modi said the troops had landed in the city within 24 hours after the trouble and if this was considered as delay he had nothing to comment.

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one person was injured and rushed to the ssg hospital.

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bilal was later remanded to police custody.

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"""we will need to keep ansari in our custody for the purpose of investigation to unearth the truth."""

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in gandhinagar district alone 9 deaths have taken place in some of the remote villages where there is hardly presence of security forces.

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This story is from March 16, 2002 kolkata: around 300 bjp activists, including west bengal unit chief asim ghosh and vice-president muzaffar khan, were arrested on saturday for defying a ban by taking out processions here.

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there was total lack of police action when the mobs took to the roads.

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around 15 vhp workers trying to enforce the bandh on bhattacharya road in patna were arrested at once.

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police had arrested 62 persons in connection with the february 27 sabarmati express carnage in which 58 passengers were charred to death.

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the sources further informed that the police forces, which are patrolling the platforms and the areas in and around the railway station, have been ordered to arrest all suspicious passengers to avert any mishap.

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but the mob then took to attacking the police with daggers and other weapons, leaving us with no choice but to fire,aEUR bandyopadhyay said.

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the lenses of tnn photographer and that of akila, an eveninger, were smashed by the crowd even as the police stood mute witness.

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police opened fire on riotous mobs in bhavnagar and surat which were setting fire to property and looting the goods.

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it alleges that despite the fact that the victims knew the rioters by name and are willing to disclose it, the police were unwilling to register cases against them.

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however, the police in self-defence fired about 40 rounds killing two persons.

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shah has even registered a police complaint against the private security guard saying he was hit while shouting slogans in the meeting room.

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