In jam-packed courtroom, Gulbarg survivor narrates the hell she has been through.
In a jam-packed courtroom of judge BU Joshi, Gulbarg society survivor Rupa Mody narrated her plight, a true story that was captured in the movie Parzania. In the court, she identified the then police inspector of Meghaninagar, KG Erda.
Rupa lived under Erda's jurisdiction and the inspector was supposed to take care of her safety in the height of the riots. But Erda not only remained indifferent to the happenings at Gulbarg, but also later got her signature in an affidavit the contents of which were fake.
On Tuesday, prime accused in the case, VHP leader Atul Vaidya, BJP leaders Pradeep Parmar, ex-councillor Chunilal Prajapati and sitting councillor Bipin Patel, and another accused Bharat Teli, were also present in the court. Rupa identified them all. A grim-looking Rupa reached the fast track court, accompanied by three women CISF personnel. She is one of few select witnesses in the riot cases who have been provided security cover.
None of her family members and relatives accompanied Rupa. Rupa, along with her husband and two children, lived in Gulbarg society at the time of the riots. They lost their son Azar in the riots. Now they live with their daughter in Thaltej area. Rupa, after taking oath in Parsi, was asked several questions about the incident by defence as well as prosecution lawyers. She sobbed many a times while narrating the sad incident of her son who went missing in the riots. Sixty-nine persons were killed in the Gulburg society incident.
She told the court that she had filed the application for reinvestigation of the case on her own and had not taken any help of any lawyers or NGO activists. She told the court that she had been living in Gulbarg society seven years prior the incident and she knew Ahesan Jafri as Jafri was society's chairman.
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