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| Zakiya Jafri case |
| Zakiya Jafri case: Special Investigation Team submits report; clean chit to Narendra Modi, say sources
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| INDIA
, 9-February-2012
3:7:14 AM |
| The Special Investigation Team (SIT) set up by the Supreme Court to investigate the 2002 Gujarat riots cases, has submitted its final report on a complaint against Chief Minister Narendra Modi filed by riot victim Zakiya Jafri. Sources say the report gives Mr Modi a clean chit.
The SIT, sources say, has found no "prosecutable evidence" against Mr Modi and 62 other senior politicians and cops accused by Ms Jafri of ensuring that assistance was not provided to her husband, former Congress MP Ehsaan Jafri, and 68 others who were attacked and killed by a rioting mob at Ahmedabad's Gulbarg Housing Society, where the Jafris lived, in February 2002. Mr Jafri was allegedly burnt alive by rioters when he stepped out to plead for the lives of women and children to be spared. Ms Jafri says her husband had made desperate calls to the police and Mr Modi's office for help, but to no avail. She has been fighting a legal battle for many years now.
The SIT submitted its report in a sealed cover yesterday to a Gujarat magistrate's court, as ordered by the Supreme Court. Zakiya Jafri has asked for a copy of the SIT report and filed a fresh application this morning asking if the report is "comprehensive, final , conclusive and in compliance with Supreme Court guidelines." The trial court will hear Ms Jafri's plea at 3 pm on Monday, February 13.
The court will now decide whether to accept the SIT report after it goes through the several thousand pages and evaluates it. It will then conclude whether further investigations are needed in the case.
There is a long legal process ahead, but Mr Modi's party, the BJP would like to score political points right now. Party president Nitin Gadkari said today, "Delhi is conspiring against Gujarat. The CBI is misused and regular attempts are made to tarnish the image of the Gujarat government. This is done with politics in mind; the centre should now stop the mischief against the state government
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