Four months on, SIT yet to file report in Jakia Jafri case

The Supreme Court-appointed special investigation team (SIT) is likely to take more time to place before the local court its report on Jakia Jafri’s complaint alleging involvement of senior politicians and police officers in the 2002 riots.

The SIT has not been able to place its report though four months have passed since the Supreme Court directed it to place its final report on Jakia’s petition before the local court.

“The SIT is still in the process of filing a final report but it cannot be said when it would actually be filed,” said a source in the SIT.

Jakia Jafri had filed a petition in the Apex court demanding that an FIR be filed against chief minister Narendra Modi and 63 others for their alleged role in the communal riots of 2002.

The SC had recently appointed senior counsel Raju Ramachandran as the amicus curiae in the case. Ramchandran had taken statements of key witnesses, including suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, and submitted a report under sealed cover before the Apex Court.

The SIT had investigated the allegations made in Jakia Jafri’s petition and prepared a final report on the massacre that took place at the Gulbarg society where Jakia’s husband, Ahsan Jafri, was hacked to death.

The Supreme Court directed the SIT in September last year to place its final report along with the report of the amicus curiae before the magisterial court which will take further decision in the matter. The victims of the riots are eagerly waiting for the report to see who is nailed and prosecuted for failing to perform their duties.