Imran Dawood, the complainant from Yorkshire in London and Bilal Dawood from Dubai, deposed through Skype on April 15.
The Himmatnagar court has received the testimony of the complainant and key witness in the murder of an NRI during the 2002-Gujarat riots in Himmatnagar.
Imran Dawood, the complainant from Yorkshire in London and Bilal Dawood from Dubai, deposed through Skype on April 15 after which the case seems to be completed.
Both complainant and the witness deposed before chief district and sessions court as it was difficult to summon them due to long legal process. Investigating officer, SIT-Prantij murder case of 2002 riots, Himanshu Shukla, told DNA that this is the first case of its kind in Gujarat where the deposition was made online.
The investigating agency was facing a problem as the complainant and the witnesses did not turn up in India despite calling them, but no legal notice was sent to them. “They too seemed tired of the long legal process and did not want to turn up personally, which was delaying the investigations,” a SIT source told DNA.
The complainant, Imran Dawood, even identified the accused in the case and also recorded his statement before the judge on April 15, 2010.
A source close to the development told DNA that all the accused were present in the court during Imran’s deposition. “Now when they had recorded their statement, the trial of the case initiated by the SIT is about to end,” the source said.
According to the details of the case, on February 28, 2002, British national Imran Dawood, then a boy of 18, had made his maiden visit to India along with his UK-based uncles -Saeed Dawood, Shakeel Dawood and Mohammed Aswat.
The four had toured Jaipur and Agra, and were returning to their native village Lajpur near Prantij in Sabarkantha district, where a mob blocked their way and set ablaze their Tata Sumo. Saeed and Aswat along with their Gujarati driver Yusuf Piraghar were hacked to death, while Shakeel went missing.
It is presumed he is dead. Imran was seriously injured and was rescued by the Prantij police.
The boy was later made a complainant in an FIR lodged in connection with the case. The case is among the nine riot cases being further investigated by the SIT.
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