2002 riots: HC hears plea to bar SIT from probing Modis role

A petition by former BJP legislator,Kalu Maliwad,demanding the Special Investigation Team...

A petition by former BJP legislator,Kalu Maliwad,demanding the Special Investigation Team (SIT) be stopped from investigating the role of 63 people in connection with the Gulberg Society massacre,came up for hearing in the Gujarat High Court on Friday. The matter came for hearing before Justice D H Waghela after Justice H N Devani had called it Not Before Me earlier.

Pleadings on the petition were completed by all concerned parties,and Maliwads counsel,S B Vakil,started arguing on the contentions raised by him in the petition. The matter is scheduled for further hearing on Monday.

Maliwad has raised the legal issue in his petition,stating that the apex court has only asked the SIT to further investigate the registered cases. And according to criminal law,it cannot investigate into a complaint that is not registered.

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Zakia Jafri,widow of late Congress leader Ehsan Jafri,had moved a petition before the Supreme Court demanding probe against 63 people in connection with the Gulberg Society massacre.

Ehsan Jafri was killed along with others in the Gulberg Society by a mob on February 28,2002. The 63 people include Chief Minister Narendra Modi,some of his then ministers and others along with Maliwad. The apex court has ordered the SIT to inquire into the allegations made by Zakia Jafri.

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