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Sibal refers to statements of Haresh Bhat regarding distribution of trishuls to youth in Gujarat.
"Trident(trishul) is a mentality", Sibal quotes his statement. "Very philosophical man!", Sibal adds.
Sibal now refers to statements relating to Haresh Bhat, then a Bajrang Dal leader and later elected as MLA.
Sibal refers to statements of Bhat regarding 100s of cases getting resolved with collusion of Public Prosecutors.
Sibal says there are statements of Haresh Bhat regarding smuggling of bombs and weapons.
"We are not on the truth of this. The points is, these had to be investigated", Sibal adds.
Sibal : This Anil Patel is not investigated, never arrested. See what the closure report says about Anil Patel. No reference to this Patel, despite the transcript. This is an offence in itself. This is enough to convict the man.
Sibal reads out from the judgment to state that conviction can be based on extra-judicial confession, if it is found to be reliable and voluntary.
'It is settled law that extra-judicial confession, if true and voluntary, can be relied to convict the accused' - Sibal reads out from the SC precedent.
Sibal says extra-judicial confessions are enough to convict a person. He refers to SC judgment reported in (2001) 2 SCC 205.
Sibal reads out certain statements of a person "I will not stop until I kill...bolt them and kill them all..loot them, finish them". Sibal then says "I don't want to read them all. These are not the kind of statements which can be read in public"
Sibal mentions that the DVDs of Tehalka sting were found authentic by the CBI itself.
Sibal reads out statements of Babu Bajrangi (convicted in Naroda Patya massacre) from the sting report that if the police wanted, they could have stopped it, and that they had the support of the police.