LIVE UPDATES- Gujarat Riots Case- Supreme Court Hearing On Zakia Jafri's Plea Against Clean Chit To Narendra Modi
Sibal : . The violence started on 27th itself. So nobody had to wait till next day to declare curfew. Kindly see finding of SIT - That no violence, no arson. SIT was concluding contrary to facts. In fact such SITs should be investigated.
Sibal says RK Raghavan, the SIT head, could not understand Gujarati and the messages and communicates were translated to him by the complainant. "This should have been done by the SIT", he says.
Sibal : There is an interesting chart. Milords he (police official, Ahmedabad) says the funeral processions were peaceful in Ahmedabad. Messages show there was nothing peaceful about the processions.
Sibal says that in the Gujarat riots, Muslim residential colonies and establishments were identified beforehand.
Sibal refers to 1984 anti-Sikh riots. "In 1984,I was living at Maharani Bagh. house of two friends of mine, who were Sikhs, were pre-identified. The mob came to attack only those houses"
Sibal reads out the SC direction to the SIT to look into the complaint sent by Zakia Jafri to the then Gujarat DGP.
Sibal reads out from the Supreme Court judgment in the NHRC case transferring the cases to SIT.
Sibal : This is why no FIR was no lodged before the local police in my case. Because otherwise the local police would have investigated the matter.
Sibal : Why was the SIT set up? Because the National Human Rights Commission moved the Supreme Court saying that the local police were not investigating properly. They did not want to give the matters to the local police.
Sibal : The whole process of investigation becomes polluted when you want to protect somebody or implicate somebody. The purity of the process is the most important aspect of investigation. If that purity vanishes, we are left with nothing.