Gujarat Riots : Mukul Rohatgi Defends SIT Clean Chit To Narendra Modi - Live Updates From Zakia Jafri's Case In Supreme Court Hearing

Bench: Was this petition with respect to the complaint filed by Petitioner?

Rohatgi: These was some other people. She was not there.

Bench: SLP 4409 and WP (Crl) 216 of 2003 mentioned in last para pertain to which offence? The direction is specific to that.

Bench: Each case was to be investigated separately.

Rohatgi: Yes, your lordship. The mantel to SIT given by court is that of a police officer.

Mr. Rohatgi refers to SC order to show appointment of SIT.

Rohatgi: Last line (order) If any person wants to make statement before SIT giving her/his version SIT should record. SIT gave advertisement in newspapers.Intimate, so SIT can call in. This was limit of SIT originally.

Rohatgi: Complainant does not go under 190, comes to SC. She wanted FIR against all and sundry. When it comes against her, she files protest which was rejected. Now they say that treat the protest petition as a fresh complaint. Under which law?

Rohatgi: The limit (of Magistrate) is specific that look at the complaint. Your lordships are sitting under 136. No malafide is and can be alleged against the officers. The Court tells them to go on till the end of trial. That is why Malhotra is still going on till trial ends.

Rohatgi: Gujarat court told her please go under 190. She doesn’t do that, she comes here. My friend says it is not related to Gulberg, then what is it related to.

Rohatgi: Can there be a protest of omnibus character? My friend says that the protest should be treated as an independent compliant. 

Rohatgi: We were not shielding anybody. The complaint and protest petition is replete with the 27th meeting, Bhat statement. But, Mr. Sibal does not go into it.

Rohatgi: I’ll show orders of SC dated 26.03.2008, 27.04.2009, 12.09.2011, 08.06.2006 complaint, final composite report dated 08.02.2012. Then tomorrow I fill focus on parading, Tehelka, CDR, mobile phones. A mobile phone used in 2002, SIT will take from persons from 2010...?

Rohatgi: 1000s or 100s of incidents, 9 major, reached 11pm onwards. Last contingent of army came next day, riots fizzled out evening of 01.03. In this background kindly take up the convenience background.