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2002 riots: Court to decide on access to SIT report

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Feb 15, 2012 01:35 PM IST

The court of Metropolitan Magistrate MS Bhatt in Ahmedabad today will decide if the SIT's final report on the probe into allegations of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi's involvement in 2002 riots should be made public.

The court of Metropolitan Magistrate MS Bhatt in Ahmedabad on Wednesday will decide if the SIT's final report on the probe into allegations of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi's involvement in 2002 riots should be made public.



The court will also hear the petitions filed by social activists Teesta Setalvad and Mukul Sinha seeking copies of the report filed in a sealed cover before it on Wednesday.

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The SIT on Monday opposed sharing with activists its final report on the probe into allegations of CM Narendra Modi's involvement in 2002 riots, as a court had reserved till Feb 15 its order on their plea seeking access to the crucial document.

During the hearing in the court, the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) opposed the applications by Teesta Setalvad and other activists, saying some of them had no locus standi to be given a copy of the report.

SIT had submitted the report to the court in a sealed cover last week amid speculation that Modi may have got relief in the probe on Zakia Jafri's complaint against the chief minister and others on the 2002 post-Godhra riots. Zakia's husband Ehsan Jafri, a former Congress MP, was among the 69 people killed in post-Godhra Gulberg Housing society riots.

SIT lawyer RS Jambuar said only after the court decides to close the complaint holding that there is no evidence, the copies could be given to the "original complainant" (Zakia), as per the Supreme Court's order.

The SIT team also submitted an application seeking one month's time to submit the statements, evidence and documents related to the probe. The application said since this material was voluminous and compiled in a haphazard way it needed time to serialise the papers before submitting to the court.

Jambuar said the documents were crucial and must be kept under tight security.

He admitted that SIT had obtained the report of the amicus curie Raju Ramchandran (appointed by the Supreme Court), and had considered it before submitting its own final report.

The amicus curie's report had been dealt with in the SIT's final report, Jambuar added.

On behalf of the applicants, Zakia's lawyer SM Vora said her client, being the original complainant, should get a copy, as per the apex court's order.

After hearing both the sides, the judge had reserved the order till February 15.

"We appreciate the court's decision to give its order in only two days time," Setalvad said.

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