The Supreme Court order on the Gulberg Society case is by ‘no means’ exoneration of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi but will lead to the expansion of the charge-sheet against him through the inclusion of additional complaints, the CPI-M said on Monday.
Observing that the apex court has directed the trial court to consider the various reports including the ones prepared by the SIT and the amicus curae and other affidavits, the party politburo said the court's direction "means that the complaint filed by Zakia Jafri and co-petitioner Citizens for Peace and Justice before the Supreme Court, including the specific role of Modi, will be included as part of a now expanded charge sheet in the case.”
"This can by no means be considered exoneration of the chief minister's role as is being claimed by Modi and his party," the CPI-M said in a statement.
Maintaining that nine years had passed since the “horrific genocide” in Gujarat, it said, “If victims and family members like Zakia Jafri, the widow of Ahsan Jafri who was brutally killed, still await justice, it is a sad commentary on the delays in the judicial system in which even such cases of mass killings are not dealt with in a time-bound manner."
The major Left party said it was essential for the trial court to expedite the case to ensure that "justice is not further delayed and thereby denied.”
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