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Modi gets clean chit in Gulberg massacre;
Zakia vows to fight
Tuesday April 10, 2012 06:53:41 PM,
IANS
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Ahmedabad: A special
panel probing the 2002 Gujarat riots has given a clean to Chief
Minister Narendra Modi, absolving the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
leader of the accusation that he had a role in a case related to
the communal carnage.
Metropolitan magistrate M.S. Bhatt, who received the closure
report of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) in February, in his
order said the investigators have found no evidence against any of
the accused, including Modi, in the 2002 Gulberg Society massacre,
one of the cases related to the widespread riots 10 years ago.
Zakia Jafri, wife of the slain Congress leader Ehsaan Jafri who
was killed by a rioting mob, had accused Modi and other senior
government officers of being conspirators in the riots.
The former Congress MP was among 69 people burnt alive by a
rioting mob Feb 28, 2002 at the Gulberg Housing Society in
Ahmedabad.
"No offence" has been established against any of the persons
listed in Zakia's complaint as per the SIT report, judge Bhatt
said in his order.
This is the first official confirmation about the SIT report on
finding no proof against the chief minister.
The court also asked the probe panel to give a copy of the report
to Zakia Jafri within 30 days which is when the SIT report will
become fully public.
"As per the Supreme Court's order and principle of natural justice
the complainant has to be given copy of the report and related
documents. Zakia will be given copies of the investigation report,
statements of witnesses and all related documents within 30 days
of this order," said the court.
Zakia in her first reaction told Times Now channel that she was
"disappointed" with the closure report and vowed to continue her
fight for justice till she was alive.
""I am saddened but confident I will get justice. I will fight for
the justice till I am alive," said Zakia, who claims that her
husband had made frantic calls to police and the chief minister's
office seeking help, but to no avail.
The probe panel had submitted its final findings on Zakia's plea
to the court in February in a sealed cover and had left it to the
court to take a decision on sharing it with the main petitioner.
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