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Malegaon:
Stating that
G.T. Nanavati-Akshay
Mehta judicial commission's arguments that there were not enough
evidence to summon Chief Minister Modi and others
did not hold ground, Mukul Sinha, counsel for the Jan
Sangharsh Manch on Saturday said that the stage had not yet reached for
submitting evidence.
G.T. Nanavati-Akshay Mehta judicial commission
is probing the Godhra train carnage and subsequent Gujarat communal
riots in 2002.
According to the report published in The Hindu, Mukul
Sinha said the application for summoning them was made only after
the State government in July 2004 expanded the terms of reference of
the commission to include the offices of Chief Minister, his Council
of Ministers and senior bureaucrats and police officers to inquire
into their “roles” in the riots.
"Cross
examining them is necessary to “arrive at the truth", the report has
quoted Mukul Sinha as saying.
If the
collective opinion of the State government was that the role and
conduct of these persons, including the Chief Minister, required to
be looked into by a judicial inquiry commission, “there is no
justification for the commission to refuse to do so,” Dr. Sinha
said.
Dealing
with the points raised by the Manch, alleging that prima facie Modi was in the “knowledge” of the riots, the commission said none
of the arguments justified his summoning “at this stage.” These fell
short of proving any direct or indirect involvement of the Chief
Minister or dereliction of duty on his part or that of the State
police and administration, of which he was the head.
The
commission, however, has not rejected the authenticity of the two
compact discs (CDs) containing the list of mobile phone numbers as
demanded by the State government pleader. The order said though the
government pleader wanted the data contained in the CDs to be
“ignored completely” questioning their genuineness and authenticity,
the commission had “not accepted the suggestion in toto” and though
it did not “justify issuing summons to the persons,” the data “if
found not manipulated, is likely to help this commission in finding
out the truth about involvement of these persons in the incidents of
violence against the minority community,” it said.
Pointing
out that the State government had already placed before the
commission relevant information through the affidavits of its
officers, the commission said it was of the view that “only those
persons against whom there is some material to show their
involvement in the post-Godhra incidents should be summoned and that
too at an appropriate stage.”
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