SIT to submit progress report of inquiry against Modi, others
SIT to submit report against CM Modi in connection with Gujarat riots.
By PTI |
AHMEDABAD: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) is likely to submit a progress report on the preliminary probe on a complaint against Chief Minister Narendra Modi and 62 others in connection with 2002 Gujarat riots in a couple of days, SIT sources said.
The SIT, constituted by the Supreme Court to investigate the Godhra train carnage case and eight other post-Godhra riot cases, was also directed by the SC to examine the complaint by Zakia Jaffery and submit report in three months.
Zakia, who's husband ex-MP Ehsan Jaffrey was killed during the 2002 riots in Gulburg Society along with 39 others, has alleged that Modi, his cabinet colleagues, police officials and senior bureaucrats aided and abetted post-Godhra riots in which over 1000 people were killed.
A day after the High Court dismissed a petition challenging the inquiry, the sources said SIT Chief R K Raghavan will be submitting the progress report to the Supreme Court in a couple of days as the three-month deadline ends on July 27.
"The probe into the complaint will continue until further orders from the apex court," they said.
SIT has till date recorded statements of Zakia, co-complainant Tista Setalvad and few other witnesses.
Sources said that none of the persons named in Zakia's complaint has been interrogated by the SIT. Besides Modi, Zakia has named the then ministers Gordhan Zadaphia, Ashok Bhatt, Police Commissioner P C Pande and others.
The SIT, constituted by the Supreme Court to investigate the Godhra train carnage case and eight other post-Godhra riot cases, was also directed by the SC to examine the complaint by Zakia Jaffery and submit report in three months.
Zakia, who's husband ex-MP Ehsan Jaffrey was killed during the 2002 riots in Gulburg Society along with 39 others, has alleged that Modi, his cabinet colleagues, police officials and senior bureaucrats aided and abetted post-Godhra riots in which over 1000 people were killed.
A day after the High Court dismissed a petition challenging the inquiry, the sources said SIT Chief R K Raghavan will be submitting the progress report to the Supreme Court in a couple of days as the three-month deadline ends on July 27.
"The probe into the complaint will continue until further orders from the apex court," they said.
SIT has till date recorded statements of Zakia, co-complainant Tista Setalvad and few other witnesses.
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Sources said that none of the persons named in Zakia's complaint has been interrogated by the SIT. Besides Modi, Zakia has named the then ministers Gordhan Zadaphia, Ashok Bhatt, Police Commissioner P C Pande and others.
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