The court has asked Kodnani’s lawyer to show how the plea was relevant in the case at this stage.
Former Gujarat minister and BJP minister Kodnani wants BJP president Amit Shah to appear in court to defend her. Kodnani, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment is on bail since July 2014.
Kodnani has been accused of leading a mob of thousands, and inciting violence in the Naroda Gam and Naroda Patiya, in a case linked to 2002 post-Godhra riots.
According to an Indian Express report, Kodnani has moved an application under section 233 (3) of The Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) before a special designated court asking the bench to summon 14 persons, including BJP president Amit Shah.
The application was moved by Kodnani’s lawyer Amit Patel earlier this month, but the matter will be examined by the court next Monday.
Kodnani claims that she was at the Gujarat assembly, Sola civil hospital, civil hospital in Asarwa and at her home when the riots broke out. She thus wants Shah to testify that he had met her at the Assembly and Sola Civil Hospital.
In the earlier hearings, defence lawyers have alleged that the NGO Citizen for Justice and Peace, run by Teesta Setalvad, had coaxed witnesses into naming their clients as accused and filed false affidavits implicating them. The affidavits were filed by the witnesses a long time after the incident, defence lawyers argued.
The Naroda Gam massacre is one of the nine major cases investigated by the Special Investigation Team appointed by the Supreme Court to probe the 2002 post-Godhra riots. Eleven people belonging to the minority community were killed at Naroda Gam during a bandh called to protest the Godhra train burning incident. Kodnani was once a minister for women and child development in the Narendra Modi-led government in Gujarat.
(With agency inputs)
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