Gujarat riots: Prosecutor withdraws
resignation
Thursday June 02, 2011 07:42:18 PM,
IANS
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Ahmedabad: The special
public prosecutor for the 2002 Dipda Darwaja massacre during the
post-Godhra riots in Gujarat, P.R. Agrawal, Thursday said he has
withdrawn his request for permission of the Supreme Court
appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) to resign from the
case.
Agrawal said he has written a letter conveying his decision to SIT
head R.K. Raghvan Tuesday and sought a personal hearing if the
latter wants to consider his earlier communication.
Agrawal had May 17 written a letter to Raghavan, seeking
permission to withdraw from the case. Agrawal had reportedly cited
the non-cooperation of the trial judge, S.C. Srivastava.
He claimed the trial judge had shown unwillingness to hear his
arguments.
"And after this, the witnesses and victims had given an
application to change me as SPP (special public prosecutor) after
expressing their dissatisfaction with my arguments. Such a
situation was offending and therefore I wrote to him (Raghavan)
seeking permission to resign," he said.
He added that he has got a letter from the victims and witnesses
written to the Supreme Court, whereby they had shown no
dissatisfaction with him and had written only against the trial
judge.
"And therefore, I have decided to withdraw my request for seeking
permission to resign as the SPP in the case," he said.
The case relates to the killing of 11 Muslims during the 2002
post-Godhra riots in Dipda Darwaja neighbourhood of Visnagar town
in Mehsana district.
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