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Gujarat riots: No offence established against Narendra Modi in SIT report, says court - The Times of India
AHMEDABAD: A magisterial court on Tuesday declared that the Supreme Court-mandated special investigation team (SIT) has given a clean chit to chief minister Narendra Modi and 62 others, who were accused by Zakia Jafri of being involved in the 2002 riots.
The court also directed the SIT to provide its final report within 30 days to complainant Zakia Jafri.
Zakia is the wife of ex-parliamentarian and Congress party leader Ehsan Jafri, who was burnt to death in 2002 in his own home by a group of rioters during the 2002 Gulburg society carnage.
Metropolitan magistrate MS Bhatt, in his order mentioned that the SIT had filed a closure report against the accused, including chief minister Narendra Modi, for their alleged role in the 2002 riots. The court, after perusing the voluminous SIT report, observed that there was "no evidence" to establish the offences alleged by Zakia Jafri against the accused.
With this declaration, the magistrate asked the SIT to supply a copy of the report along with statements of the witnesses and all concerned documents to Zakia within 30 days. Zakia had sought a copy of the report and had urged the court to reveal the content of the report, which was submitted by the SIT in a sealed cover in February.
The court has refrained itself from issuing a notice to Zakia because she appeared before the court demanding a copy of the report. The procedure mandates a court, and the SC also specifically directed the lower court in this case, to issue a notice to the complainant and hear him/her out in case of a closure report. It is only after the completion of recording the objection the court can decide whether to accept or reject the closure report.
Zakia Jafri had sought investigation into a larger conspiracy behind the riots alleging state government's complicity in communal violence in which more than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims were killed. She approached the Gujarat Director General of Police in 2006, but nothing happened. She then moved the Gujarat high court, which asked her to file a complaint before a magisterial court as per law. Instead, she moved the SC, which asked the SIT to look into the allegations.
In another application on Tuesday, the magisterial court refused to supply a copy of the SIT report to a witness in Naroda Patia massacre of the post-Godhara riots. An accused person being tried in the Gulbarg massacre trial has also sought the report. The court completed hearing on his plea and kept its order reserved till April 23.
Gujarat riots: No offence established against Narendra Modi in SIT report, says court - The Times of India
AHMEDABAD: A magisterial court on Tuesday declared that the Supreme Court-mandated special investigation team (SIT) has given a clean chit to chief minister Narendra Modi and 62 others, who were accused by Zakia Jafri of being involved in the 2002 riots.
The court also directed the SIT to provide its final report within 30 days to complainant Zakia Jafri.
Zakia is the wife of ex-parliamentarian and Congress party leader Ehsan Jafri, who was burnt to death in 2002 in his own home by a group of rioters during the 2002 Gulburg society carnage.
Metropolitan magistrate MS Bhatt, in his order mentioned that the SIT had filed a closure report against the accused, including chief minister Narendra Modi, for their alleged role in the 2002 riots. The court, after perusing the voluminous SIT report, observed that there was "no evidence" to establish the offences alleged by Zakia Jafri against the accused.
With this declaration, the magistrate asked the SIT to supply a copy of the report along with statements of the witnesses and all concerned documents to Zakia within 30 days. Zakia had sought a copy of the report and had urged the court to reveal the content of the report, which was submitted by the SIT in a sealed cover in February.
The court has refrained itself from issuing a notice to Zakia because she appeared before the court demanding a copy of the report. The procedure mandates a court, and the SC also specifically directed the lower court in this case, to issue a notice to the complainant and hear him/her out in case of a closure report. It is only after the completion of recording the objection the court can decide whether to accept or reject the closure report.
Zakia Jafri had sought investigation into a larger conspiracy behind the riots alleging state government's complicity in communal violence in which more than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims were killed. She approached the Gujarat Director General of Police in 2006, but nothing happened. She then moved the Gujarat high court, which asked her to file a complaint before a magisterial court as per law. Instead, she moved the SC, which asked the SIT to look into the allegations.
In another application on Tuesday, the magisterial court refused to supply a copy of the SIT report to a witness in Naroda Patia massacre of the post-Godhara riots. An accused person being tried in the Gulbarg massacre trial has also sought the report. The court completed hearing on his plea and kept its order reserved till April 23.
AHMEDABAD: A magisterial court on Tuesday declared that the Supreme Court-mandated special investigation team (SIT) has given a clean chit to chief minister Narendra Modi and 62 others, who were accused by Zakia Jafri of being involved in the 2002 riots.
The court also directed the SIT to provide its final report within 30 days to complainant Zakia Jafri.
Zakia is the wife of ex-parliamentarian and Congress party leader Ehsan Jafri, who was burnt to death in 2002 in his own home by a group of rioters during the 2002 Gulburg society carnage.
Metropolitan magistrate MS Bhatt, in his order mentioned that the SIT had filed a closure report against the accused, including chief minister Narendra Modi, for their alleged role in the 2002 riots. The court, after perusing the voluminous SIT report, observed that there was "no evidence" to establish the offences alleged by Zakia Jafri against the accused.
With this declaration, the magistrate asked the SIT to supply a copy of the report along with statements of the witnesses and all concerned documents to Zakia within 30 days. Zakia had sought a copy of the report and had urged the court to reveal the content of the report, which was submitted by the SIT in a sealed cover in February.
The court has refrained itself from issuing a notice to Zakia because she appeared before the court demanding a copy of the report. The procedure mandates a court, and the SC also specifically directed the lower court in this case, to issue a notice to the complainant and hear him/her out in case of a closure report. It is only after the completion of recording the objection the court can decide whether to accept or reject the closure report.
Zakia Jafri had sought investigation into a larger conspiracy behind the riots alleging state government's complicity in communal violence in which more than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims were killed. She approached the Gujarat Director General of Police in 2006, but nothing happened. She then moved the Gujarat high court, which asked her to file a complaint before a magisterial court as per law. Instead, she moved the SC, which asked the SIT to look into the allegations.
In another application on Tuesday, the magisterial court refused to supply a copy of the SIT report to a witness in Naroda Patia massacre of the post-Godhara riots. An accused person being tried in the Gulbarg massacre trial has also sought the report. The court completed hearing on his plea and kept its order reserved till April 23.
Gujarat riots: No offence established against Narendra Modi in SIT report, says court - The Times of India
AHMEDABAD: A magisterial court on Tuesday declared that the Supreme Court-mandated special investigation team (SIT) has given a clean chit to chief minister Narendra Modi and 62 others, who were accused by Zakia Jafri of being involved in the 2002 riots.
The court also directed the SIT to provide its final report within 30 days to complainant Zakia Jafri.
Zakia is the wife of ex-parliamentarian and Congress party leader Ehsan Jafri, who was burnt to death in 2002 in his own home by a group of rioters during the 2002 Gulburg society carnage.
Metropolitan magistrate MS Bhatt, in his order mentioned that the SIT had filed a closure report against the accused, including chief minister Narendra Modi, for their alleged role in the 2002 riots. The court, after perusing the voluminous SIT report, observed that there was "no evidence" to establish the offences alleged by Zakia Jafri against the accused.
With this declaration, the magistrate asked the SIT to supply a copy of the report along with statements of the witnesses and all concerned documents to Zakia within 30 days. Zakia had sought a copy of the report and had urged the court to reveal the content of the report, which was submitted by the SIT in a sealed cover in February.
The court has refrained itself from issuing a notice to Zakia because she appeared before the court demanding a copy of the report. The procedure mandates a court, and the SC also specifically directed the lower court in this case, to issue a notice to the complainant and hear him/her out in case of a closure report. It is only after the completion of recording the objection the court can decide whether to accept or reject the closure report.
Zakia Jafri had sought investigation into a larger conspiracy behind the riots alleging state government's complicity in communal violence in which more than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims were killed. She approached the Gujarat Director General of Police in 2006, but nothing happened. She then moved the Gujarat high court, which asked her to file a complaint before a magisterial court as per law. Instead, she moved the SC, which asked the SIT to look into the allegations.
In another application on Tuesday, the magisterial court refused to supply a copy of the SIT report to a witness in Naroda Patia massacre of the post-Godhara riots. An accused person being tried in the Gulbarg massacre trial has also sought the report. The court completed hearing on his plea and kept its order reserved till April 23.