The Supreme Court-appointed SIT today alleged that Zakia Jafri’s petition, seeking rejection of its report giving clean chit to Gujarat CM Narendra Modi and others in the 2002 post-Godhra riots, was an attempt to “confuse” the court to “extract” a favourable order.
“In this petition, 75 per cent of material is not at all relevant to the investigation carried out by SIT under the order of the apex court. This is nothing but an attempt to create confusion in the mind of court to extract an order in her favour,” SIT lawyer R S Jamuar said in the court.
Jamuar, today, resumed the arguments on behalf of SIT opposing Jafri’s petition before Metropolitan Magistrate B J Ganatra, who had on May 15 ordered hearing on daily basis.
In support of his argument that Jafri has mostly submitted irrelevant material, Jamuar cited the mention of the 2002 Dipda Darwaza riot case, speech of VHP leader Acharya Giriraj Kishor (made in September, 2002), Modi’s address in the Assembly, bunch of alert messages collected between February and July 2002, etc.
The Special Investigation Team had in January last year submitted its final report giving clean chit to Modi and others in the 2002 post-Godhra riots.
Jafri filed a petition before the magistrate protesting the SIT report and sought the filing of charge sheet against Modi and 58 others.
In her protest petition, Jafri has also demanded rejection of SIT report by the court and directions of further investigation into her complaint by an independent agency, other than SIT.
Zakia Jafri is widow of Ehsan Jafri, a former MP who was burnt to death in the post-Godhra riots.
—PTI