A local court rejected pleas for copies of SIT's final report on its probe into allegations of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's involvement in 2002 post-Godhra riots.
A local court on Wednesday rejected pleas for copies of SIT's final report on its probe into allegations of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's involvement in 2002 post-Godhra riots, saying a decision will be taken only after all related documents are submitted by the probe agency.
The Metropolitan court at the same time ordered the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team(SIT) to furnish the remaining documents related to the report which it had earlier submitted. The report is believed to have given relief to Modi.
Passing the order, Magistrate M S Bhatt said at this stage all applications seeking copies are disallowed and that these pleas would be only decided after the complete SIT report is submitted in the court.
The applications seeking copies were filed among others by Zakia Jafri, activists Teesta Setalwad and Mukul Sinha.
The SIT's final report related to its probe into the complaint by Zakia, wife of former Congress MP Ehsaan Jafri who was among the 69 people killed in the post-Godhra riots at the Gulberg Housing Society.
Zakia's advocate SM Vora filed another application seeking that the report which is in the sealed cover be opened in court and its contents be read out.
SIT counsel RS Jamuar opposed this application. The court fixed February 29 for hearing on this application.
The report was submitted in a sealed cover to the court by the SIT on February 8. It reportedly gives a clean chit to Modi and 56 others on the ground that there is no "prosecutable evidence" against them.
The Supreme Court, which set up the SIT, had asked it to investigate whether there was a larger conspiracy behind the riots in which around 1,200 people were killed.
SIT questioned several people, including Modi, and filed the first report in the Supreme Court in which it reportedly gave a clean chit to Modi.
The apex court then asked senior lawyer Raju Ramchandran to independently assess the SIT report. On September 12, 2011, after going through Ramchandran's report, the Supreme Court did not record any finding, but asked the SIT to submit its final report to the magistrate's court in Ahmedabad.
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