Supreme Court has commenced the final hearing on a petition by Zakia Ahsan Jafri's plea challenging the SIT report giving clean chit to the then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and other high functionaries in the Gujarat riots of 2002.A Bench comprising Justices AM Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and CT Ravikumar is hearing the matter.Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal arguing for the...
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2021-10-26 07:34:54
26 Oct 2021 4:03 PM IST
Court will continue to hear the matter tomorrow.
26 Oct 2021 4:02 PM IST
Sibal: The PMLA matters are also there. If we are left with only one day or so…
Bench: After this, we will hear PMLA.
26 Oct 2021 4:01 PM IST
Sibal: SIT closure report also relates to Zakia’s complaint which isn’t limited to Gulbarg.
Sibal suggests: We can start (going through the closure report) tomorrow.
26 Oct 2021 3:58 PM IST
Bench: This wasn’t the closure report?
Sibal: This was the SIT first report.
Bench: No, no we’ve to see the closure report.
26 Oct 2021 3:57 PM IST
Sibal: I don’t want to go into the event of 27th. As I said, I don’t want to make this a sensation issue, that is not my concern.
26 Oct 2021 3:55 PM IST
Sibal: Why has this not been investigated!
We can’t look away like this. This republic is too great to look away.
26 Oct 2021 3:52 PM IST
Sibal: It's quite clear that the complaint didn’t relate to Gulbarg alone, neither did the material.
If we point something to the court & the court says I will not look at it, where do we go, which court do we go to?
26 Oct 2021 3:47 PM IST
Sibal adds: We were proposing an FIR but the court said 'No, what's the need of an FIR, we are sending you to the Magistrate.'
26 Oct 2021 3:45 PM IST
Sr Adv Sibal takes court through the SIT report.
26 Oct 2021 3:45 PM IST
Sibal: I went to court since I filed a complaint with DGP & nothing was done. Protest petition & amicus were all looking at these facts, not just at Gulbarg.
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