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Probe on
'doctored' Gujarat riots affidavits
Monday July 11, 2011 08:24:33 PM,
IANS
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Gandhinagar: The
Gujarat High Court Monday gave the go-ahead to police
investigation into filing of "doctored" affidavits on behalf of
victims of the 2002 riots before various courts.
A single judge bench of Justice M.R. Shah rejected a petition
filed by the registrar of a sessions court challenging the order
of a magisterial court, which entrusted a probe against former
aide of Teesta Setalvad, Rais Khan, and others, to the police.
Khan, formerly associated with Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP),
had confessed before the various forums and court that he and
Setalwad had fabricated affidavits and statements of the riot
victims and submitted them before the lower courts and Supreme
Court.
Taking cognizance of these, designated judge of Naroda Gam
massacre case, S.H. Vora, had asked the registrar of the city
civil and sessions court to file a complaint before the
magisterial court against Khan and others.
A metropolitan magistrate had subsequently directed the police to
probe the case and file a report in 30 days.
However, the registrar sought the high court's intervention on
this, by terming proceedings initiated by the magistrate as
"erroneous".
Justice Shah, who gave the verdict on challenge of the magisterial
court's order, in his judgment, accepted special public prosecutor
J.M. Panchal's arguments.
Panchal, who appeared for the state, had submitted that the
magistrate's order was just, proper and legal.
He submitted that the magistrate had the jurisdiction to order the
investigation.
Khan had claimed that the false affidavits of those witnesses and
many other victims of the 2002 riot cases were prepared at behest
of Setalvad to get the trial shifted outside Gujarat.
He requested the court to summon him as a witness under provisions
of Code of Criminal Procedure to prove that the witnesses had
falsely implicated him and had lied before the court.
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