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Sibal reads out portions from Tehelka sting report where Arvind Pandeya (Public Prosecutor) talks of threatening Sreekumar (Intelligence Officer) to not speak against the government.
Sibal refers to conversations in the sting about the making of bombs in the cracker factory of a VHP person.
Sibal : What more you need to investigate? Courts have convicted for lesser evidence, forget this kind of evidence.
Sibal : During the sting it was disclosed that VHP played a lead role in the riots.
Justice Khanwilkar, referring to the messages : All this is happening in Faizabad? Were persons moving from only Gujarat?
Sibal - This is the Sabarmati Expresss, Milords.
Sibal : Had preventive measures been taken, all this could have been avoided.
Sibal refers to State Intelligence messages regarding acts of violence committed by Kar Sevaks while returning from Ayodhya in Sabarmati Express before reaching Godhra. Sibal says there were intelligence reports regarding communal tension.
Mr. Sibal Reads out portions of Statement of Ashok Narayan, ACS Home, No. 2 officer in Gujarat.
Sibal : Kindly look at page 1 and 2. The first SIB message 07.02.2002 from DCP to DGP Guj and all police stations warning of communal mobilisation. Another similar message from Upadhyay to DGP UP. [Reads out messages].
Sibal continues : The SIT without any judicial examination accepted the statement of Bhat (Haresh Bhai Bhat leader of Bajrang Dal). So, SIT accepted that. A normal prosecutor would have arrested the man on this statement and prosecuted him. Instead of arresting the man they accepted the statement.