SIT can question Modi in post-Godhra riots case

SIT gets HC nod to question Modi in Gujarat riots case |

Gujarat High Court Friday rejected a petition challenging the verification of the special investigation team (SIT) against Chief Minister Narendra Modi and 62 others in a post-Godhra riots case.

Justice DH Vaghela dismissed the petition filed by former BJP MLA kalu Malivad (one of 62) that no relief could be granted in cases in which his work was the direct guidance of the Supreme Court.

After the High Court decision, it is now clear that SIT - constituted by Supreme Court - is now the authority to question the Chief Minister and 62 other Defendants.

The specific event was submitted by Zakia Jaffrey, whose husband ex-MP Ehsan Jaffrey was killed during 2002 riots in Ahemdabad's Gulburg Society along with 39 others.

She has alleged in its complaint that Modi and his cabinet colleagues, police and senior bureaucrats supported the post-modern one Godhra riots in 2002.

Malivad SB Vakil lawyer had argued that Zakia complaint was "vague, as has been made against high profile people."

He said SC had ordered SIT to "see" the complaint that does not allow it to conduct the survey.

Acting on behalf of SIT, a senior adviser KG Menon had been responding to the points raised in Malivad petition by submitting before the court by the Supreme Court for the work was to find out the truth about allegations of Zakia complaint.

And as the Supreme Court has ruled that he must take the necessary steps by law, "a preliminary investigation of the case was accepted, as we do," Menon said.

He further argued that they would conduct a preliminary investigation has been approved by the Court's ruling the head, and the report will be presented to the court.

And only after invoked violations are published as a result of the preliminary investigation that SIT must register a case and then proceed to the investigation, he added.