Special court asks team to submit police & vehicle logbooks, injury certificates.
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) is being directed by a special court to conduct further investigation into various aspects of the Gulbarg Society massacre case, including finding several people accused in the matter. BU Joshi, the special judge appointed for the case, has directed the SIT to submit all the reports, including the police logbook, vehicle logbook, injury certificates of witnesses in the case and other documents, by October 7.
Though the CD containing mobile phone data, submitted by IPS officer Rahul Sharma, is vital evidence in the 2002 riot cases, the SIT has not submitted details of the location of the accused as found on the bases of the data on the CD. The court also mentioned a sting operation conducted by investigative journalist Ashish Kaitan into the role played by the perpetrators of the 2002 communal riots. During the sting operation, he recorded a conversation between Babu Bajrangi and others accused in the related cases. There has been no mention of this sting operation in the report.
Moreover, there is no mention of the videography and photography with regard to Gulbarg Society, which were taken after the incident. Slain MLA Ahesan Jafri, who was killed in the Gulbarg Society massacre, had made numerous phone calls to the police and others. However, there has been no mention of the details of these phone calls.
Replying to a query raised by the court, the special public prosecutor earlier said that the details of the phone calls made by Jafri were not available as BSNL had destroyed all the data. Earlier, social activist Teesta Setalvad had submitted an application listing the lacunae in the investigation conducted by the SIT.
“On the bases of the application by the witness and the Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), the judge has ordered further investigation in the case under section 173(B) of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) on a detailed application filed by us pointing out the sloppy and incomplete investigation by the SIT in the Gulbarg Society massacre case,” Setalvad said. “The SIT failed to investigate the entries in the station dairies and the fire brigade register,” she added.
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