Gujarat Riot Case- Plea By Zakia Jafri Challenging Clean Chit To Then Gujarat CM Narendra Modi And Others- [LIVE UPDATES]

SIBAL- If I can provide that information to the Magistrate, the Magistrate is duty-bound to take cognizance.

Neither the Magistrate nor the revisional court has done that.

SIBAL- The matter was relegated back to the Mag & the Mag said that he doesn’t have power & he said that he won’t act on the protest petitions. Even the SIT didn’t take any evidence.

The magistrate is duty-bound to take note of the information and take cognizance. Whether SIT said no case has been made out is wholly irrelevant

SIBAL- There is evidence,, evidence not provided by me but by intelligence officers... 

SIBAL: this evidence must be taken into account to ascertain if offence has bee committed,..,evidence related to facts that police was not taking action, hate speech was being made, false information was being provided to people. it is in in context that court appointed amicus

Petitoner filed a complaint before DGP alleging that even before that horrible incident of Godhra, there were certain prior incidents which instigated communal riots..and after the 27th and 28th