The Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Wednesday submitted report of its investigation against Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and others in a trial court hearing in the 2002 Gulberg Society case in which 69 people were massacred during riots.
However, the SIT requested the trial court not to open the report, submitted in sealed covers, as the agency is set to challenge the trial court’s order of production of report in the high court.
“Since the trial court has insisted for the production of the report, we have complied to it, but we are approaching the high court to grant us time to submit all relevant documents of our probe in Zakia’s complaint to this designated court,” Special Public Prosecutor R.C. Kodekar, who appeared for SIT, said. “Earlier also we had requested the court for the deferment of production of copy of SIT report till the metropolitan court takes its final decision on our recommendations and findings in Zakia Jafri’s complaint,” he said.