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Court to hear SIT report, Modi warns of anti-Gujarat storm
Clean Media Correspondent
Ahemdabad, Feb 13 (CMC) A trial court in Ahmedabad will today hear the closure report filed by the Supreme Court appointed Special Investigations Team (SIT) in the Gulbarg Society massacre during the 2002 Gujarat riots. The court will also hear the pleas of slain Congress MP Eshan Jafri’s wife Zakia Jafri and social activists Teesta Setalvad and Mukul Sinha seeking copies of the report filed last week.
Media reported last week that the SIT has given a clean chit to Chief Minister Narendra Modi over his role in the 2002 riots that claimed over 1,044 lives.
The Supreme Court had asked the SIT to investigate whether there was a larger conspiracy behind the 2002 riots.
"Those who have been criticising Gujarat for the last one decade are going to come back to abuse us once again and this is because they cannot digest the success of Sadhbhavna that is peace, unity and harmony," said Modi.
A complaint in this regard was filed by Setalvad and Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, in the Gulbarg Society case where 69 people were killed during the riots.
The Supreme Court had then asked amicus curiae Raju Ramchandran to independently assess the SIT report.
The Supreme Court on 12 September 2011, after going through Ramachandran’s report, had refrained from passing any order in the case and asked the SIT to submit its final report in the magisterial court in Ahmedabad.
The SIT almost took five months after the Supreme Court order to file its final report in the case.
The Supreme Court had asked the magisterial court to hear the petitioners before closure summary in the case, even if the report was in favour of Modi and others.
Meanwhile, Tehelka, in a report published last week, claimed that amicus curiae‘s report seeks Modi’s prosecution for serious criminal offences like promoting religious enmity, indulging in acts prejudicial to national integration and maintenance of harmony, and deliberately and wantonly disobeying the law with intent to cause injury.
Charges against Modi say that he allowed the dead bodies of karsewaks killed in the Sabarmati express in Godhra to be brought to Ahmedabad, that he deliberately delayed action and called the army too late, that he knew about the threat to life of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri but didn’t take any action, among others.
Ramachandran, Tehelka claims, has held that dropping all criminal charges against Modi is legally untenable: “His report demonstrates that the impediment in the course of justice for the riots of Gujarat 2002 is neither lack of evidence nor lack of law. If anything, the problem lies with a disturbingly selective application of law.”
Tehelka goes on to claim, “The amicus’s report demolished the core argument put forth by the SIT for not pressing charges against Modi, which is lack of prosecutable evidence. He first defined the relevant sections applicable to Modi, laid down their legal scope and then cited several Supreme Court case laws before emphatically concluding that Modi should be sent to trial.”
Meanwhile, a day ahead of the court opening the SIT report, Modi warned of a “storm of criticism by anti-Gujarat forces” to sweep the state in the next 24 hours.
“There will be a storm in the form of criticism in next 24 hours, but the anti-Gujarat forces will not be successful in doing any harm.
“Those who have been criticising Gujarat for the last one decade are going to come back to abuse us once again and this is because they cannot digest the success of Sadhbhavna that is peace, unity and harmony,” Modi said.
Court to hear SIT report, Modi warns of anti-Gujarat storm
Clean Media Correspondent
Ahemdabad, Feb 13 (CMC) A trial court in Ahmedabad will today hear the closure report filed by the Supreme Court appointed Special Investigations Team (SIT) in the Gulbarg Society massacre during the 2002 Gujarat riots. The court will also hear the pleas of slain Congress MP Eshan Jafri’s wife Zakia Jafri and social activists Teesta Setalvad and Mukul Sinha seeking copies of the report filed last week.
Media reported last week that the SIT has given a clean chit to Chief Minister Narendra Modi over his role in the 2002 riots that claimed over 1,044 lives.
The Supreme Court had asked the SIT to investigate whether there was a larger conspiracy behind the 2002 riots.
"Those who have been criticising Gujarat for the last one decade are going to come back to abuse us once again and this is because they cannot digest the success of Sadhbhavna that is peace, unity and harmony," said Modi.
A complaint in this regard was filed by Setalvad and Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, in the Gulbarg Society case where 69 people were killed during the riots.
The Supreme Court had then asked amicus curiae Raju Ramchandran to independently assess the SIT report.
The Supreme Court on 12 September 2011, after going through Ramachandran’s report, had refrained from passing any order in the case and asked the SIT to submit its final report in the magisterial court in Ahmedabad.
The SIT almost took five months after the Supreme Court order to file its final report in the case.
The Supreme Court had asked the magisterial court to hear the petitioners before closure summary in the case, even if the report was in favour of Modi and others.
Meanwhile, Tehelka, in a report published last week, claimed that amicus curiae‘s report seeks Modi’s prosecution for serious criminal offences like promoting religious enmity, indulging in acts prejudicial to national integration and maintenance of harmony, and deliberately and wantonly disobeying the law with intent to cause injury.
Charges against Modi say that he allowed the dead bodies of karsewaks killed in the Sabarmati express in Godhra to be brought to Ahmedabad, that he deliberately delayed action and called the army too late, that he knew about the threat to life of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri but didn’t take any action, among others.
Ramachandran, Tehelka claims, has held that dropping all criminal charges against Modi is legally untenable: “His report demonstrates that the impediment in the course of justice for the riots of Gujarat 2002 is neither lack of evidence nor lack of law. If anything, the problem lies with a disturbingly selective application of law.”
Tehelka goes on to claim, “The amicus’s report demolished the core argument put forth by the SIT for not pressing charges against Modi, which is lack of prosecutable evidence. He first defined the relevant sections applicable to Modi, laid down their legal scope and then cited several Supreme Court case laws before emphatically concluding that Modi should be sent to trial.”
Meanwhile, a day ahead of the court opening the SIT report, Modi warned of a “storm of criticism by anti-Gujarat forces” to sweep the state in the next 24 hours.
“There will be a storm in the form of criticism in next 24 hours, but the anti-Gujarat forces will not be successful in doing any harm.
“Those who have been criticising Gujarat for the last one decade are going to come back to abuse us once again and this is because they cannot digest the success of Sadhbhavna that is peace, unity and harmony,” Modi said.
It seems, despite all the odds, Modi will be the ultimate vicotr!
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