SIT report on Modi grilling is given to SC

May 15, 2010 - S.S. Negi |

New Delhi

The Supreme Court-appointed special investigating team on the 2002 riots on Friday submitted its much-awaited report on the interrogation of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and 62 others to the court.

The five-member SIT headed by former CBI director R.K. Raghavan, which was given an extended deadline of May 15 to present the report, submitted it a day ahead in a sealed cover, sources said.
The sources, refusing to elaborate further, said Mr Raghavan himself submitted the report with details of the SIT’s investigations against all those named by Zakia Jafri, wife of slain former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, among the 69 people killed in the Gulberg Society massacre in Ahmedabad. The deadline for the report’s submission was extended last month by a special bench headed by Justice D.K. Jain. The SIT, which questioned Mr Modi in two lengthy sessions on March 27, also examined VHP leader Praveen Togadia last week.
Our Ahmedabad Correspondent reports: The Mumbai-based NGO Citizens for Justice and Peace, headed by social activist Teesta Setalvad, on Friday submitted documents containing phone call records of the Gujarat CM’s office and police control room during the 2002 riots to the Nanavati Commi-ssion in Ahmedabad.
Ms Setalvad noted these documents pointed to a planned conspiracy, raising questions why Gujarat’s top policemen and others chose to ignore distress signals from Gulberg Society and elsewhere.

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