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

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2 Dec 2021 11:10 AM IST

  • Gujarat Riots- Zakia Jafris Plea Against Clean Chit To Narendra Modi- LIVE UPDATES From Supreme Court

    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...

    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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    • 2 Dec 2021 12:16 PM IST

      Bench: This was read to us.

      Rohatgi: By them. They argued take protest as complaint.

      Bench: This was read to us.

    • 2 Dec 2021 12:15 PM IST

      Rohatgi: Kindly see 304 middle. Kindly come back to Vol I for a second. When this court said ‘look into’ what does it mean. That you will find in Vol I.

    • 2 Dec 2021 12:15 PM IST

      Bench: The TC refused to distinguish between preliminary enquiry and further investigation. So, in that context the statement of not agreeing submission of SIT was made.

    • 2 Dec 2021 12:03 PM IST

      Bench: This translation [TC judgment in SLP] may not be accurate.

      Mr. Shukla reads the Gujarati version of the judgment for clarity.

    • 2 Dec 2021 12:03 PM IST

      Bench: In page 303, it says that court is not agreed with any of these submissions of SIT.

      Rohatgi: That is a translation problem.

      Mr. Rohatgi asks Mr. Shukla (SIT) to read in Gujarati.

    • 2 Dec 2021 12:02 PM IST

      Rohatgi: Kindly turn to 304. This is slack review. Kindly come to 302, middle of the page. He[TC] says there is no slack review, SC asked IG Ranges to look into it, they did so and submitted report.

    • 2 Dec 2021 11:51 AM IST

      Bench: Can you give us the correct version of this portion?

      Rohatgi: What we’ll do is in HC judgement wherever there is a Gujarati portion, we will translate that.

      Bench: The confusion is with TC judgment.

      Rohatgi: I’ll do that.

    • 2 Dec 2021 11:47 AM IST

      Rohatgi: There is a reproduction at pg. 288. of Single Judge’s (HC) judgment of 2007.

      Bench: From where to where is the quotation. Make the Gujarati copy available so that we can compare.

      Mr. Rohatgi clarifies the extent of the quotations from the HC judgment.

    • 2 Dec 2021 11:40 AM IST

      Rohatgi: Then is the ‘slack review' of cases in 2004. This has nothing to do with SIT, but it went into every allegation.

    • 2 Dec 2021 11:40 AM IST

      Rohatgi: Then the meeting of 28.02.2002. A wireless message was sent in the morning. There was informal alert to army is on 27.02.2002 itself. The formal was on 28.02.2002 at 2PM. The court [TC] believed the conclusion of SIT to be correct.

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