[1]Former Gujarat Chief Minister Suresh Mehta was on Tuesday questioned for over four hours by the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT), in connection with the 2002 riots, being probed by the agency.
Mehta, who was a cabinet minister during the 2002 riots, was questioned with regard to complaint by Zakia Jaffery, wife of the slain former MP Ehsan Jaffery, who was among the 69 killed during the post-Godhra riots in Gulberg Society here, SIT sources said.
He was questioned at the agency's office in Gandhinagar, they added.
Mehta, who had quit BJP in 2007, was earlier questioned by the SIT in August 2009 for what had happened in the state Assembly after the Godhra train burning incident. The Assembly was in session when the incident had taken place 9 years ago.
The Supreme Court had asked the SIT to probe whether further investigation was required against Gujarat Chief Ministers Narendra Modi and 62 others with regard to Zakia's complaint, in which, she had alleged that between February and May 2002, there was a ‘deliberate and intentional failure’ of the state government to protect the life and property of innocents.
In her complaint, she had further alleged that Modi and 62 others, including his cabinet colleagues, police officials and senior bureaucrats aided and abetted the riots which left over 1,000 people dead across the state.
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