SC stops Gujarat court from ruling on
Gulberg carnage closure report
Thursday January 17, 2013 07:38:48 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The Supreme
Court Thursday asked an Ahmedabad court not to pronounce its
orders on the closure report filed by the Special Investigation
Team (SIT) into the allegations of inaction by Chief Minister
Narendra Modi and senior state officials in the Gulberg Society
carnage during the 2002 riots.
A bench of Justice D.K. Jain, Justice P.Sathasivam and Justice
Aftab Alam passed its order while hearing a petition by Zakia
Nasim Jaffri, wife of a former Congress MP killed in the Gulberg
Society carnage, that the magistrate's court has not given her all
the documents that SIT had relied upon while filing the closure
report of its investigation into her complaint.
Jaffri's husband Ehsan Jafri was one of the 69 killed at Gulberg
Society. The SIT, headed by CBI's former director R.K. Raghvan,
was set up by the apex court to probe the 2002 Gujarat riots
cases.
Appearing for Zakia Jaffri, counsel Kamini Jaiswal told the court
that the denial of all the documents by the magistrate court that
SIT had relied upon for filing its closure report was contrary to
the Sep 12, 2011 order of the apex court.
This order of the apex court said that if the SIT's report finds
"no sufficient evidence or reasonable grounds" for proceeding
against any person named in Jaffri's June 8, 2006 complaint, the
court concerned, before taking a final decision on such closure
report, "shall issue notice to the complainant and make available
to her copies of the statements of the witnesses, other related
documents and the investigation report strictly in accordance with
law as enunciated by this Court...".
Jaiswal told the court that the lower court has already closed her
client's right to file objections to the closure report. She also
said that she could not have filed any objection in the absence of
access to documents that SIT had relied upon in filing its closure
report.
As Gujarat's Additional Advocate General Tushar Mehta told the
court that their right to argue was still there, Jaiswal said:
"What will we argue without reports?"
Asking the lower court not to pronounce any order on the closure
report, the court also issued notice to Gujarat government on
Jaffri's plea seeking access to all the documents that SIT took
into consideration before filing the closure report.
Directing the listing of the matter on Feb 7, the court described
as "unfortunate" that despite its unequivocal order that several
reports of the SIT submitted to it would not be given to anyone,
the Nanavati Commission, inquiring into Gujarat riot cases, was
threatening Raghvan with action.
"Our concern is that our order is not vague. It is very specific.
It is unfortunate that inspite of its being extracted before the
commission, they are asking SIT chairman to give the reports,"
observed Justice Sathasivam.
Taking note of the "threatening letter" received by Raghvan from
the commission, Justice Jain asked him if he was apprehending any
action.
Noting that SIT report was the property of the apex court and SIT
was not at liberty to part with it, Justice Jain said: "This
court's order was not confined to a particular case but pertains
to entire reports of the SIT."
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