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Gulbarg Society killings: High court urged to transfer case:
The Gujarat High Court here was petitioned Wednesday to transfer the
2002 Gulbarg Society massacre case, which left 69 people dead during
the Gujarat riots, the affected families alleging a bias on the part
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Ahmedabad:
A court hearing the Naroda Gam case of the 2002 Gujarat riots has
rejected the Special Investigation Team's (SIT) plea to conduct
voice tests on VHP activists Babu Bajrangi and Jaideep Patel. Eleven
people were killed in Naroda Gam.
The SIT had
wanted to cross-check claims of complicity of the Vishwa Hindu
Parishad (VHP) leaders in the riots. The claims were made in a sting
operation by a magazine in 2007.
Judge S.H.
Vora Thursday rejected the plea on the grounds that Section 73 of
the Evidence Act has no provision for conducting voice spectrograph
tests of the accused. According to counsel Rohit Verma who appeared
for Bajrangi and Patel only finger printing and handwriting check
can be done if the investigating agency needs further information.
Eighty
three people have been chargesheeted in the Naroda Gam case.
Earlier, two other courts hearing cases related to the 2002 riots in
Gulbarg society and Naroda Patia in Ahmedabad permitted voice
sampling of the accused to enable comparisons with the voice
recordings in the sting for purposes of appraising evidence.
The special
court hearing the Naroda Patia case has also turned down the Jan
Sangharsh Manch plea for directions to the Supreme Court-appointed
SIT to scrutinise the mobile call records furnished by senior police
officer Rahul Sharma in a CD.
The CD
carries call records of the key people in the state administrative
set up including police and the chief medical officer as well as
those involved in rioting.
The special
public prosecutor had argued that investigations were in progress
and a final report from the SIT was yet to be received and therefore
specific directions to the agency cannot be given at this juncture.
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