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 Maheshwari and CT Ravikumar will take up the part-heard matter for further hearing. Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi for SIT will continue his arguments today.
Recapitulating his submissions so far, Senior Advocate, Mr Mukul Rohatgi, highlighted that the Petitioner is relying on the affidavits, testimonies of three-star witnesses namely, Shreekumar, Rahul Sharma and Sanjiv Bhatt. As per Mr Rohatgi, the complaint is replete with the statements made by these witnesses in affidavits before the Nanavati Commission.
Yesterday, referring to the order of the Supreme Court dated 12.09.2011 as the 'pole star', Mr Rohatgi reiterated that the remit imposed on SIT was to 'look into' the complaint of Zakia in order to find additional material in the Gulberg matter
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