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Gujarat riots: Probe Modi, says Supreme Court amicus curiae
Monday May 07, 2012 06:27:33 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi/Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's role in the 2002 riots in
the state should be probed, Raju Ramachandran, the amicus curiae
appointed by the Supreme Court in the case, has said in his final
report.
According to the report dated July 25, 2011 which was released
Monday, there was a need for examining Modi's role in the wake of
the Godhra train burning to find out whether a message was mesage
was conveyed that the state machinery would not step in to prevent
the communal riots that followed.
Ramachandran says the chairman of the Supreme Court-appointed
Special Investigation Team (SIT) had found that a meeting had
indeed taken place at Modi's residence at 11 p.m. on February 27,
2002 that was attended by senior bureaucrats and police officers.
The report terms as incorrect the claim of Indian Police Service
officer Sanjiv Bhatt, the then Deputy Commissioner of Police
(Intelligence), that he was present at the meeting.
Meanwhile, a court in Ahmedabad on Monday handed over a copy of
the SIT report on the Gulbarg Society massacre to Zakia Jafri, a
month after the SIT found no prosecutable evidence against Modi.
The report is 25,000-pages long.
The court has asked Jafri to file an application on May 10 if she
feels there are discrepancies in the report or that documents are
incomplete. Jafri has asked for two months' time before arguments
can begin in the case.
The SIT report had sought a closure in the probe as it found no
evidence against Modi.
Zakia Jafri is the widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri who was
among 69 persons killed in the Gulbarg society carnage. She had
named Modi and 57 others for alleged criminal conspiracy in the
2002 riots. Zakia has also been given a copy of the amicus
curiae's report.
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