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Union Law Minister M Veerappa Moily
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The Supreme Court today refused to direct the government to take
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Finally, Narendra Modi
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Gandhinagar:
Chief Minister Narendra Modi appeared before the Supreme
Court-appointed SIT today and was questioned for the first time on
his alleged role in the 2002 Gujarat riots that have come back to
haunt him.
Ending the suspense as to where he would appear, the 59-year-old
senior BJP leader drove to the Special Investigation Team (SIT)
office around noon at the old state secretariat building here.
Modi suffered the ignominy of being the first-ever chief minister of
any state to be called for questioning in a criminal complaint of
mass murder after he and his administration were accused of aiding
and abetting riots in one area in Ahmedabad.
SIT Chief R K Raghavan was not present at the SIT office when Modi
appeared. A K Malhotra, the number two in the SIT and a former DIG
in the CBI, is believed to be questioning the chief minister.
Elaborate security arrangements were made at the SIT office for the
deposition of the chief minister where a large crew of media persons
had assembled since morning.
Clad in a crisp white kurta and pyjama, Modi greeted the waiting
media persons with folded hands after alighting from his car before
proceeding to the SIT building.
The SIT had summoned Modi to depose in connection with a complaint
of Zakia Jaffery, widow of former Congress MP Eshan Jaffery, who was
killed in Gulbarg society riots case of 2002 along with 69 others.
The complaint also alleged that he had instructed officers not to
take action.
Social activist and a Modi baiter Teesta Setalvald said," Today is
an important day for democracy and rule of law when a sitting chief
minister has been forced to appear before an inquiry team after
various attempts to block justice."
Gujarat Government Spokesman Jai Narayan Vyas dismissed suggestions
of a setback to Modi following his appearance before SIT.
"We have always said that he will abide by rule of law but much hype
is being made. There is no setback as far as BJP government or Modi
is concerned. Mr Modi is cooperating," he said.
Modi's appearance before SIT assumes significance as he is a serving
chief minister who is being questioned before any authority in
connection with the 2002 riots.
Today's event was preceded by drama after Modi refused to appear on
March 21 calling as false claim that the SIT had fixed that day for
questioning him in connection with the 2002 riots.
The Supreme Court had on April 27 last year asked the SIT to inquire
into Zakia's complaint in which she has alleged that Modi and 62
others, including his cabinet colleagues, police officials and
senior bureaucrats, aided and abetted the post-Godhra riots in
Gujarat.
Zakia approached the apex court after the Gujarat High Court had on
November 3, 2007 refused to give any direction and asked her to seek
redressal before the Magistrate's Court.
The wife of the slain Congress leader had alleged that between
February and May 2002 there was a "deliberate and intentional
failure" of the state government in protecting the lives and
property of innocent people.
SIT had to face legal hurdles while probing Zakia's complaint when
in July last year former BJP MLA Kalu Malivad (one of the 63 people
named in the complaint) approached the Gujarat High Court demanding
a stay on investigations by SIT with regard to Zakia Jaffery.
The High Court had dismissed the petition saying as the SIT is
directly working under the supervision of the Supreme Court, no
relief can be granted in this matter.
Malivad has now approached the apex court challenging the High Court
verdict.
Inquiring into Zakia's complaint, SIT has already recorded
statements of a number of persons, including former Minister of
State for Home Gordhan Zadafia, BJP leader I K Jadeja, former BJP
MLA from Lunawada Kalu Malivad, sitting MLA from Mehsana Anil Patel,
ex-IPS officer R B Sreekumar, social activist Teesta Setalvad, IG
Shivanand Jha, some senior police officers and political leaders.
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