The Supreme Court never directed or ordered the Special Investigating team (SIT) to probe the larger conspiracy as claimed by riot victim Zakia Jafri, said the advocate appearing on behalf of the SIT in Ahmedabad.
“The Supreme Court, when it ordered the setting up of SIT to probe nine cases of post-Godhra riots, never ordered us to probe the larger conspiracy behind the riots as claimed by riot victim Zakia Jafri in her protest petition,” advocate R S Jamuar, counsel for SIT, told metropolitan magistrate B J Ganatra on Monday.
He was replying to issues raised by Jafri’s lawyers on the petition filed in protest against the SIT report giving a clean chit to chief minister Narendra Modi and others for their alleged role in the riots.
Jafri’s lawyers have claimed that the panel had failed to investigate the aspect of larger conspiracy allegedly hatched by the chief minister and others in power during the riots.
Citing the series of apex court orders, beginning in 2008 when the constitution of SIT was ordered, Jamuar said: “I have all the documents to prove that Jafri’s lawyers have disregarded everything. They simply wanted the SIT to carry out the investigation according to their diktats and desires.
The SIT was constituted on a petition filed by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and not on the basis of Jafri’s plea. Main responsibilities assigned to SIT were to protect the witnesses, victims and litigants.”
Jamuar added: “The complainant, during the arguments, could not touch upon the main aspect of the investigation on which the Supreme Court wanted a probe by SIT.... Issues raised in the protest petition neither form part of our investigation nor were desired by the apex court.”
Jafri, whose husband former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri was killed by a violent mob that attacked Gulbarg Housing Society, has demanded that the report be rejected by the court and an order be passed to file a charge sheet against Modi and others in connection with the violence.
SIT’s reply to arguments and objections raised by Jafri’s lawyers began on Monday before Ganatra and will continue on Tuesday.
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