Gujarat Riots- Zakia Jafri's Plea Against Clean Chit To Narendra Modi- LIVE UPDATES

Rohatgi: See the details to which the SIT went. See ex- gratia payments, assistance to widow, sanitation, medical etc.

Rohatgi: Once he has case property he had to give it to IO or submit to Malkhana.

Rohatgi: Now allegation about Rehabilitation of victims. This has nothing to do with riots, larger conspiracy.

Rohatgi: [referring to burning of CD by Sharma]Burning of information in colloquial term is not setting fire, in computer language it means you load the information. He stated that his PA was on leave and therefore could not give the CD through a formal letter.

Rohatgi: See allegation no. 23. This is about CDs produced by Rahul Sharma many many years later. They were received from him, not from the Malkhana.

Rohatgi: According to Sharma, there was use of mobile phones, in a big way, in the riots. Sharma copied data on his computer and kept at his home, kindly note. 

Bench: Was there any allegation against the SIT in the complaint?

Rohatgi: Nothing about SIT, nothing about larger conspiracy, qua Gulberg she says she was in the house and was not eye-witness to whole incident.

Rohatgi: Your Lordship had asked - How many Prosecution witnessed amounts the witnesses examined by SIT?

Rohatgi: 19 out of 275 examined by SIT were prosecution witnesses. This itself shows the extended limits to which the SIT went.

Rohatgi: Her (Zakia) examination and cross is in Gujarati. It is important to note that she mentions that Shreekumar is currently working with Teesta Setalvad. Her cross was on 22.10.10

Bench: When did the evidence commence?

Rohatgi: One day 22.10.10. He said I have not met him, but he was working with NGO.

Rohatgi: Shreekumar was recording every meeting. He had given 9 affidavits: only in 3rd affidavit when he was superseded he talked about being pressurised; he maintains a register.

Rohatgi: These three are major grounds for SIT to disbelieve him, for Petitioner to believe him and for the Commission (Nanavati) to disbelieve him.

Rohatgi: This is now on Arvind Pandeya. This Pandeya was not PP in any of these cases.

Mr. Rohatgi reads about the SIT being critical of Shreekumar.

Rohatgi: [SIT Report] This is the assessment of the observation of Election Commission. Was did what SIT was to do? They still did it.