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Monday, April 26, 2010 08:31:25 PM ,
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Ahmedabad:
Strongly denying the charges leveled against her by the Gujarat
government, Mumbai-based activist Teesta Setalvad of Citizens for
Justice and Peace(CJP) has demanded reconstitution of the Special
Investigation Team(SIT) and shifting of trial of the riots cases of
2002 outside Gujarat.
In an affidavit submitted to the Supreme Court on Friday in response
to a state government’s reply accusing her of tutoring the witnesses
and tarnishing the image of Gujarat, she accused the Narendra Modi
government of being unremorseful even after eight years of the
carnage in which around 1180 persons, mostly Muslims, were killed.
She also targeted the SIT colluding with the state government. The
state government’s reply had also sought permission for registration
of FIR against Setalvad and her interrogation.
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an ulterior motive, the affidavit said that the allegations by the
state government amounted to insult to the brave survivors who
deposed in courts in an extremely hostile environment in Gujarat
under Modi’s regime.
Targetting the SIT headed by former CBI director R K Raghavan, the
affidavit said that the SIT was expected to probe high level
conspiracy behind 2002 riots including systematic arms and
ammunition distribution but SIT simply avoided it.
Stating that the recording of statements of witnesses by SIT was
faulty since the beginning and it was also pointed out by witnesses
themselves, the affidavit said that "the whole picture of SIT’s
failure became clear only after charge sheets were filed between
July-August 2009."
The affidavit also accused the SIT of not probing the circumstances
behind the destruction of the phone records of ex-Congress MP Ehsan
Jafri and chief minister Narendra Modi at a time when the litigation
was under scrutiny of the Supreme Court.
The affidavit also accused the SIT of not probing the telephone data
pertaining to ministers, politicians, police officers and senior
bureaucrats whose mobile phone locations were traced near the mass
massacre sites of Gulberg and Naroda.
Targetting the Gujarat cadre IPS officers in SIT-Shivanand Jha,
Ashish Bhatia and Geetha Johri, Setalvad in her affidavit accused
them of not conducting investigations properly under political
pressure.
Stating that all applications for further investigations or
implicating fresh accused were made by witnesses and not by SIT, she
said that it suggested "not just a collusion but a shared interest
in not getting to the bottom of the investigations pointing to the
fact that justice would only be done if the trials move out of the
state."
"There is no real hope of justice for the witnesses unless the SIT
is reconstituted," the affidavit stated.
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