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Phone records of Ehsan Jafri missing,admits SIT in court

The Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team admitted that the telephone records of slain Congress leader Ehsan Jafri are either missing or have been destroyed.

The Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) admitted that the telephone records of slain Congress leader Ehsan Jafri are either missing or have been destroyed.

The admission came in the special fast-track court of Justice B U Joshi in Ahmedabad on Monday. Justice Joshi ordered further investigation under Section 173 (8) of the CrPC based on a detailed application pointing out loopholes in the investigation and which was filed by advocate S M Vora,counsel of the victim witnesses and Citizens for Justice and Peace.

Vora said the SIT had failed to complete the investigation after Ashish Khaitan’s statement was recorded. SIT failed to investigate station diary entries,fire brigade registers and also failed to produce Jafri’s phone diaries.

He said questions as to who destroyed his phone records and when they were destroyed still remain unanswered.

Vora,in his application,also details how no proper investigation was undertaken by SIT and the slip shod manner of recording the panchnamas in the case,where it was necessary to investigate the role of several policemen.

In her May 2008 statement to SIT,Teesta Setalvad had also taken up the issue of Jafri’s phone records. Several witnesses in their statements before the SIT had mentioned that Jafri called several policemen and leaders.

Zakia Jafri,widow of slain Congress leader Ehsan Jafri had alleged that there was an overarching conspiracy by the state government in engineering the riots. In her petition,she had named Modi and six of his 2002 ministers as chief accused in the list of 62 people.

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