Day after marathon session with SIT,Modi shares dais with CJI

The children of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri — who was among the 69 killed in Gulberg Society — Nishrin Hussain,Zuber Jafri and Najid Hussain,had,on Saturday,launched an online petition,which got hundreds of signatories within hours,pleading with Justice Balakrishnan and a retired Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe,Ahmed Musa Ebrahim,not to share the platform with Modi.

“An association of the Chief Justices of India and Zimbabwe with a person who is being examined for his role in the killing of innocent people,under the directives of the Supreme Court,will send out wrong signals and undermine the process of justice in Gujarat. Not long ago,Supreme Court of India had called the Chief Minister Narendra Modi a modern day ‘Nero’,” the three had stated in their petition.

The CJI and Ebrahim,however,accompanied Modi today at the function,which was also attended by Justice K S Radhakrishnan of the Supreme Court and Gujarat High Court Chief Justice S J Mukhopadhaya among others.

While the CJI made no mention of Modi in his speech — and Modi himself did nor speak a word — Ebrahim referred to the CM’s statement after the SIT interrogated him for over nine hours yesterday,lauding him for saying he would abide by the rule of law and that nobody is above the law and Constitution of the country.

When asked about the online petition,Ebrahim,who is also a referee with the International Cricket Council (ICC),said: “I am not aware of it. Please allow me in my humility not to offer any comments on the issue.”