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	BEST BAKERY - A SAMPLE OF FAST TRACK JUSTICE
		NGOs across the country are demanding a reopening of the case and a retrial in the case.
		The concern in the case ought not to be the fate of the 21 accused who have been acquitted.
		The 'miscarriage of justice' in Best Bakery case is neither an accident nor an isolated case.
	www.samarthbharat.com /bestbakery.htm (1854 words)

	Best bakery case -
		The Best Bakery case is among the most serious instances of violence during the Gujarat carnage of 2002.
		The Best Bakery case is the first to be tried by a "fast track" court specially set up to try cases of violence during the Gujarat carnage of 2002.
		The case and this judgement will set an ominous precedent which is bound to erode people's faith in the fairness and ability of the system to deliver justice, and especially that of weaker sections and minorities in society.
	www.pucl.org /Topics/Religion-communalism/2003/best-bakery.htm (1937 words)

	Best Bakery case - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Best Bakery case is the name used to refer to a case involving an incident which occurred on March 1, 2002, at a bakery (called Best Bakery) in Vadodara, India during the 2002 Gujarat violence in which 14 people were murdered, many of them burned to death.
		The case came into prominence after all the 21 accused were initially acquitted on June 27, 2003 by a "fast-track court" for lack of evidence after 37 out of the 73 witnesses, including key witness Zaheera Sheikh turned hostile.
		In December, the Government of Gujarat admitted there were lapses on the part of the police in registering and recording the FIR in the case and on the part of the prosecution in recording the evidence of witnesses.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Best_Bakery_case (803 words)

	:: SECULAR INDIA ::.. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		* The Best Bakery verdict - By R.K.Raghavan
		Best Bakery was among the worst cases of violence in the aftermath of Godhra.
		All the 21 accused in the Best Bakery carnage in Vadodara in the post-Godhra violence in Gujarat were on Friday acquitted by a local court for lack of evidence.
	www.secularindia.com /ngo/2006/04/15Best.htm (10093 words)

	::PeaceJournalism.com - The Peace Media Research Center's e-magazine::
		The Best Bakery Trial is an epitome of that struggle where justice is being reduced to a mere farce, when witnesses turn hostile, testimonies change and somewhere between the twists and turn lies the truth of what had really happened.
		The Best Bakery Case was one of the many stories that captured those turbulent times and has since become somewhat the personification of not only the carnage but also the pathetic and almost an impossible pursuit for justice in Gujarat.
		This case is the hope in the struggle for justice for all the families of the victims of the Gujarat violence.
	peacejournalism.com /ReadArticle.asp?ArticleID=5466 (1490 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation
		New Delhi, Jan. 30: The Best Bakery massacre case was revived today with the Supreme Court admitting an appeal against the Gujarat High Court verdict that had upheld the acquittal of all 21 accused.
		Zahira in her petition said the Best Bakery case was a classic example of “miscarriage of justice” at all levels.
		Sibal argued that the Best Bakery case was a “fit case for retrial”, which was declined by the high court.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1040131/asp/nation/story_2844973.asp (564 words)

	Best Bakery Case: Political Implications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		THE judgement in the Best Bakery Case, which resulted in the acquittal of all the 21 accused, is not simply a criminal neglect of justice, and its consequences are therefore likely to be far more serious than in other cases where the guilty go unpunished.
		The NHRC chairman Justice A S Anand told a private TV channel that he believed the acquittal of all the 21 accused in the Best Bakery case in Vadodara by a special court was prima facie a "miscarriage of justice" and the state government must appeal against the verdict.
		The Best Bakery incident is “a fall out of the Godhra carnage but the overall question of communal riots in this country is a fall out of the divide and rule policy bequethed by the British”.
	pd.cpim.org /2003/0727/07272003_nalini.htm (1280 words)

	Verdict in Best Bakery case
		IN the landmark re-trial of the Vadodara Best Bakery case in Mumbai, the Special Court sentenced nine accused to life imprisonment and acquitted eight.
		The Supreme Court ordered a retrial in Mumbai of the Best Bakery communal violence case, since it felt a fair trial was not possible in Gujarat.
		The Best Bakery case became controversial when Zaheera Sheikh and her family admitted publicly that they had lied in the Vadodara Sessions Court.
	www.flonnet.com /fl2304/stories/20060310005611700.htm (668 words)

	keral.com, special news
		The Supreme Court, on Wednesday, severely reprimanded the Best Bakery case key witness Zaheera Sheikh, who had turned hostile during the trial, for her "flip flops" and sentenced her to one year simple imprisonment with a fine of Rs 50,000 for contempt of court.
		Expressing ignorance about the whereabouts of Zaheera Sheikh, the key witness who turned hostile in Best Bakery case, her counsel Atul Mistry, on Wednesday, said she was not in touch with him "since the Supreme Court verdict against her".
		Zaheera's changing testimonies are believed to have weakened the Best Bakery trial and led to the acquittal of many of the accused.
	www.keral.com /specialnews/bestbakery.htm (555 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion
		The NHRC has asked that trials for the Best Bakery case and nine others be held outside Gujarat, because intimidation of witnesses, as alleged by an eyewitness in the Best Bakery case, Ms Zahira Habibullah Sheikh, would allow all alleged culprits to go free.
		The fact that the Gujarat government quickly moved the high court against the acquittal of all 21 accused in the Best Bakery case has, instead of increasing the state government’s credibility, raised some eyebrows.
		Since the education minister of the state had already gone public regarding the Bharatiya Janata Party’s satisfaction with the judgment of the fast-track court on the case in which 14 people were burnt alive in a Vadodara bakery, the hasty appeal to the high court has cut little ice.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030812/asp/opinion/story_2254730.asp (440 words)

	HIMAL SOUTH ASIAN \| September 2003 \| Report \| The judge, the prosecutor and Best Bakery
		The Best Bakery case, thus, was just a replay of the cases relating to other politically significant riots of the past, with a new set of actors.
		None of the carnage cases in Gujarat has been handed over to the CBI and the Best Bakery investigation and verdict is perhaps a foretaste of what may well be in store for the other cases involving a much larger scale of killings.
		To cite a case in point, while the public prosecutor for the Godhra case is remunerated at the rate of INR 7000 per appearance, the majority of the public prosecutors in the riot-related cases receive a relatively modest INR 400 per day.
	www.himalmag.com /2003/september/report_1.htm (4289 words)

	Best Bakery Was 37th Riot Acquittal
		What many do not know about the infamous Best Bakery case is that it was the 37th of the post-Godhra riot cases in Gujarat where the accused were acquitted after trials.
		The Bakery case just got famous because it was one of the five massacres picked by the NHRC to be probed by the CBI.
		Of the 4,252 cases that were filed between February and May 2002, 2,032 cases were disposed of by the police because there was no evidence to establish their culpability, while in 21 cases the complaints were found to be baseless.
	www.countercurrents.org /guj-misra120703.htm (495 words)

	Riot victims seek justice in India \| csmonitor.com
		Best Bakery was just one of hundreds of possible murder cases - and with several surviving eyewitnesses, one of the strongest cases - after the Gujarat riots of the spring of 2002, in which at least 1,000 citizens were killed, most of them Muslims.
		Many human rights activists say they expected the Best Bakery case to be a classic open-and-shut conviction of the accused, since it was backed by the eyewitness testimony of Zahira Sheikh and other survivors of the attack.
		Today, the charred ruins of the Best Bakery have become a kind of park for the residents of the mainly Hindu slum of Hanuman Tekri.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/0915/p06s01-wosc.htm (1608 words)

	Best Bakery case: Gujarat HC raises doubts over Zaheera's claims (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Raising "serious" doubts over claims of Zaheera Sheikh — key witness in the Best Bakery carnage in Vadodara of that threats forced her to turn hostile during trial, the Gujarat High Court has observed "there seems to be definite conspiracy to malign people by misusing her."
		Dwelling on prosecution case, the bench also stated that "If the accused were real culprits, then they would not have waited for whole night, right from 7 pm on March 1 to next day morning up to 10 am for killing and assaulting the inhabitants of Best Bakery.
		The accused and eyewitnesses were neighbours, according to prosecution case and three of 14 burnt alive were Hindus.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0104/74.html (711 words)

	Best Bakery case: Zaheera turns hostile
		Zaheera Sheikh, prime witness in the Best Bakery case, was on Tuesday declared hostile by the prosecution after she went back on her statement to the police during the retrial in a special court in Mumbai.
		During examination by prosecutor Manjula Rao, Zaheera told designated judge Abhay Thipsay that her maternal uncle, Quaser, was not present in the Best Bakery when it was set on fire by a group of persons on March 1, 2002.
		The key witness also said she did not see anything on the day when the Best Bakery was set on fire as there was lot of smoke and fire all around and missiles were thrown by the mob at the terrace of the bakery where she and others had taken shelter.
	www.rediff.com /news/2004/dec/21best.htm (477 words)

	PROSECUTING STUPID INNOCENCE
		It is a well-accepted fact that a crowd of more than 1000 persons attacked Best Bakery in Vadodara during communal riots and set it on fire after murdering most of the family members.
		Whether he is convicted or not, he will spend the best part of next two or three (probably five to six) years running from courts to police stations to advocate chambers.
		In Best Bakery Case, if Zahira Sheikh wants to pardon the accused, she is legally prevented from doing so.
	www.samarthbharat.com /stupidinnocence.htm (1638 words)

	Best Bakery case put off until Sept 22
		Setting the stage for commencement of re-trial in the Best Bakery case, the prosecution on Wednesday informed a special court that it proposed to charge the 21 accused under various IPC sections, including murder, attempt to murder, rioting, conspiracy and common intention.
		Gujarat police informed the court that they had tried their best to apprehend the absconding accused and would continue to do so but did not assure the court that the accused would be arrested.
		The court indicated that in case the absconding accused could not be traced by September 22 the trial against them could be separated and others would face the trial.
	www.mid-day.com /news/city/2004/september/92456.htm (313 words)

	The Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the Best Bakery carnage case of Gujarat, one of the two riots-related cases to be transferred to Maharashtra for re-trial, the prosecution managed to get conviction for 9 of the 17 accused.
		To the best of my knowledge, investigation is undertaken by a generic law and order professional, who moves from one kind of assignment to the other without any fixed periodicity, security, induction and specialised courses.
		His landmark verdict in the Best Bakery case resulted in the conviction of the accused when the case was shifted out of Gujarat.
	www.the-week.com /26mar12/currentevents_article10.htm (4690 words)

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		Vakil, a senior SC advocate, was appointed after a consent from the eyewitnesses of the case in which 12 people were charred to death during the Gujarat communal riots in 2002.
		They were only interested that the case opens soon." In the last hearing, the Apex Court had reprimanded the Gujarat government and the PP appointed by the state for opposing arrest warrants against the accused.
		The Bakery killings in Baroda took place while more than 1000 people, mostly Muslims, were slaughtered in retaliation after a Muslim mob torched a train carrying Hindu pilgrims burning 59 people alive.
	www.indiatraveltimes.com /news/news2004/aug04/aug1604_news2.html (1531 words)

	State trying to muddle issue: Experts
		The state government’s move to file an appeal against the acquittal of all the 21 accused in the Best Bakery case came under a scathing attack for its content and timing by legal eagles in the state.
		The Supreme Court’s move asking the state government to furnish all the documents related to the Best Bakery case trial as also those related to the appeal filed by the state government in Gujarat high court is a move in the right direction.
		The investigation of the case was weak as the prosecuting agency did not wish to convict the accused and the appeal in the high court has been filed just to offset pressure created by the media and the political class, he contended.
	www.ahmedabad.com /news/2k3/aug/9state.htm (681 words)

	Amended appeal filed in Best Bakery case
		The Gujarat high court on Monday admitted an amended criminal appeal filed by the state government in the Best Bakery case seeking retrial of the case in which 21 people were acquitted.
		The criminal appeal filed by the state government asked the high court to permit the affidavits of four witnesses, including key eyewitness Zaheera Sheikh, to be produced and further evidence be permitted to be recorded by the witnesses.
		After hearing Advocate General S N Shelat, the bench also issued notices to the Director General of Police, who was recently summoned by the Supreme Court, to file affidavits for giving protection to witnesses who want to give their statements and evidence before the appropriate court by second week of October.
	specials.rediff.com /news/2003/sep/29best.htm (344 words)

	INDOlink - India General News - Best Bakery Case: 11 Accused Identified
		Mumbai, Nov. 16 (NNN): Yasmin Sheikh, the fourth eyewitness in the infamous Best Bakery case, on Tuesday identified eleven of the accused in court.
		She claimed they were part of the mob that attacked the Best Bakery in Vadodara on March 1, 2002.
		Zaheera To Appear: Meanwhile, Zaheera Sheikh, the prime witness in the Best Bakery case, and her two brothers are likely to appear before a special court in Mumbai on Wednesday in response to the summons served to them in Gujarat, prosecution sources said on Tuesday.
	www.indolink.com /displayArticleS.php?id=111604073243 (420 words)

	Zehraunissa wants Best Bakery case reopened
		, 19, the key eyewitness in the Best Bakery murder case in Vadodara, on Monday said she will reopen the case against all the accused in the Mumbai high court.
		The move comes soon after the Gujarat sessions court acquitted 21 people, who were accused in the rioting and killing of 12 people inside the bakery on March 1, 2002.
		Her case has been taken by a Non Governmental Organisation, Citizens for Justice and Peace.
	www.rediff.com /news/2003/jul/07best.htm (478 words)

	Best Bakery case: First eye-witness deposes in court - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In a breakthrough in the Best Bakery case, an eye witness of the carnage deposed before the special court here on Tuesday to relate the incident in which 14 bakery workers, all Muslims, were killed in the post-Godhra riots.
		Taufil Ahmed, an employee of the Best Bakery in Vadodara, is the first eye-witness to appear before the court and he stuck to his statement given to police soon after the bakery carnage.
		He told the Additional Sessions Judge Abhay Thipsay, who is conducting the re-trial of the case, that the mob armed with torches and swords had stormed the premises and set it on fire.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/oct272004/i7.asp (533 words)

	Witnesses turn hostile, Best Bakery case crumbles-Ahmedabad-Cities-NEWS-The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The NHRC had identified Best Bakery, along with four others, as cases to be handed over to the CBI, a plea that was rejected by the state government.
		However, legal experts say the prosecutionâs case may not be able to stand court scrutiny because of the repeated backtracking by key witnesses, a trend that could take the wind out of similar cases registered elsewhere.
		I never knew what the Best Bakery episode was about till then.â The court also declared another âpanchâ, Shantilal Amarsinh Desai, hostile after he denied the police had made out the âpanchnamaâ before him.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=14395 (482 words)

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