Supreme Court to continue hearing today the petition filed by Zakia Jafri challenging the SIT's clean chit to the then Gujarat CM Narendra Modi & other high functionaries in the #GujaratRiots of 2002.
A Bench comprising Justices AM Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheswari and CT Ravikumar will hear the matter today.
Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal, on behalf of Zakia Jafri, will conclude his rejoinder arguments today. Later, Mukul Rohatgi will surrejoin.
On Wednesday, apart from contending lack of investigation and questioning the conduct of SIT in the particular matter, Mr. Sibal also argued on the bonafides of Petitioner No. 2 (Teesta Setalvad), against whom he submitted the State and SIT had engaged in a lengthy 'diatribe'. Reiterating his submission for the sake of clarity, he argued that upon diligent investigation of the Tehelka tapes, material with respect to other people would have surfaced, which ultimately could have been perused, to establish a larger conspiracy. Countering Mr. Rohatgi's submissions commending the SIT for an impeccable investigation, Mr. Sibal iterated that in fact, it was the inadequacies in the investigation that has affected the case of larger conspiracy alleged by the Petitioner against the highest State functionaries in the Gujarat riots of 2002.
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