Gujarat Riots- Zakia Jafri's Plea Against Clean Chit To Narendra Modi- LIVE UPDATES From Supreme Court
Bench: We are not getting what you are trying to portray.
Rohatgi: I was reading the TC judgment which accepts the SIT findings. Every issue now raised had been raised and thoroughly argued and TC gave findings considering all material on record.
Rohatgi: Judge records finding agreeing with SIT.
Rohatgi: Now, ministers in control room. [TC says]No material to show presence of minister.
Now, Mr. Rohatgi refers to the conclusion of Trial Court with respect to parading of bodies.
Rohatgi: Your lordship may note that this is translation by the Petitioner. There are huge numbers of grammatical mistakes.
Bench: Firing because of gathering or gathering because of firing, it goes all together. We will not base our analysis on the basis of the TC or HC findings.
Rohatgi: The Court finds that no real evidence of violence before 1:30, except some stone pelting to enforce bandh.
Rohatgi: [TC finding]There was firing by Jafri, 8 rounds were fired, injured people in crowd, the crown became infuriated and ...
Rohatgi: Eye witnesses, complainant, Rahul, state govt is available. If anything else was required that could have been summoned.
Rohatgi: Kindly see Khetan’s testimony was there. It says pre-plan conspiracy. It was dicarded. There were some material on conspiracy.
Bench: All this material was there. Khetan’s evidence is also there, you say.
Rohatgi: Some material was there.
Bench: On larger conspiracy there was no material before the court.
Rohatgi: There was no riots before 1:30pm. This is the finding. He is saying what happened post 1:30.
Bench: Admittedly the material now presented with the protest petition was not before the trial court. So there was no occasion for trial court to go into it.
Mr. Rohatgi reading from the TC judgment, there was no evidence to establish conspiracy, the Tehelka tapes were considered to be unreliable to establish conspiracy.