3.12.2013 (UNI) A local court deferred the verdict on slain Congress MP Ehsan Jafris widow Zakias plea protesting closure report of Supreme Court-appointed special investigation team (SIT), giving a clean chit to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others on alleged conspiracy behind the 2002 riots which claimed more than 1,000 lives. The court of Metropolitan Magistrate B J Ganatra was expected to pronounce its order today but the verdict had to be put off as the judge was on leave. The court had fixed the pronouncement of order for today after arguments on Zakias petition by her lawyers and SITs counsel had continued for five months. In her petition protesting the SITs closure report giving a clean chit to Mr Modi and others in the riots, Zakia has argued that the court and not the Supreme Court-appointed SIT should decide whether Gujarat governments criminal lapses were responsible for post-Godhra riots of 2002. She also alleged that the SIT has failed to investigate state governments lapses in implementing Police Manual and Communal Riots Scheme of 1997 of the state government and to deploy army at the riots. She said, Whether Gujarat government intentionally failed to take preventive steps or not, or any administrative lapse during riots amounts to criminal lapse or not should be decided by court and not by the SIT. Zakia has also demanded that Modi and others should be charge sheeted and investigation be handed over to other independent agency. The petition further argued that the SIT should have probed that after the ghastly incidence at Godhra station, in which 59 people died, how many preventive arrests were made, did government take serious actions against hate mongers, was army deployed in time, what powers were given to army, in which areas army was sent, what was the response of Fire Brigade authorities during riots.
Posted on: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 10:02:18 +0000
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