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| Post-Godhra riots: SC orders re-pro |
| The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to constitute a five-member special investigation team (SIT) to re-investigate the post-Godhra communal
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| INDIA
, 25-March-2008
10:49:41 AM |
| The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to constitute a five-member special investigation team (SIT) to re-investigate the post-Godhra communal riots and said it would submit its report within three months.
Six years after the Gujarat riots left at least 2,000 dead and thousands homeless, it's a fresh setback for the state government.
The Supreme Court has asked for further investigation into 10 major Gujarat riot cases, saying it is not satisfied with the probe.
These include the Gulbarg Society massacre in which around 70 people were killed among them former Congress MP Ehsan Jaffrey.
The killings in Naroda Pattiya and Sardarpur and the Godhra train burning which sparked the riots will also be reinvestigated.
The five-member special investigation team would comprise three senior IPS officers from Gujarat, Gita Johri, Sivananad Jha and Ashish Bhatia, besides retired CBI director R K Raghavan and former UP police officer C B Satpathy.
A three-member bench of Justices Arijit Pasayat, P Sathasivam and Aftab Alam said it would pass necessary orders on Wednesday for constituting the SIT.
The apex court indicated its intention to constitute the SIT after hearing the amicus curia and senior counsel Harish Salve and Gujarat government's senior counsel Mukul Rohatagi for more than an hour.
The issue is related to the petition filed by the NHRC, which has sought transfer of the trial of the riots' cases outside Gujarat and re-investigation by an independent agency like the CBI.
The NHRC had filed the petition after several witnesses turned hostile amidst allegations of threat, coercion and inducement to derail the investigation
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