Gujarat Riots- Zakia Jafri's Plea Against Clean Chit To Narendra Modi And State Functionaries- LIVE UPDATES

Sibal: My submission is that, your lordship should rise to the occasion to see to it that, this does not happen again.

Bench (on a lighter vein): At the moment we will rise for the day.

Sibal: To meet tomorrow.

Bench: Yes.

Bench: Is Haresh Bhatt a part of your complaint ?

Sibal: No. He is not.

Sibal: pg. 438, statement by Haresh.'I have a gun factory...made bombs there'. Why was he not arrested and investigated after arrest.

Sibal: We cannot just wish it away and argue that the pot keeps boiling.

Bench: Gathering is different from riots, isn’t it?

Sibal: Now Haresh Bhatt, pg 381 it starts. Kindly come to 401. "Sirf talwar ayi thi”, they [Bhatt] said they made rocket launchers. pg. 416 [inter alia, refers to gathering]

Sibal: I have limited myself to undisputed documentary evidence. The SC order, as I understand is that all these statements are 161 statements, this cannot be used in trials.

Sibal: The closure report only deals with a statement in electronic media of the then CM, which I did not get into.

Sibal: Then Milords, pg. 303. This is transcript of Dilip Trivedi, the famous PP. He is coordinating with defence counsel. Now he is not prosecuted in any case, yet these are offences. This is the nature of evidence available with the Mag.

Sibal: I am not here to seek conviction. I am here to tell you that first of all the SIT should have taken them into custody, investigated, filed chargesheet. 

Bench: We will ask you only and then put it to the other side.

Sibal: Our instruction is that there is no trial, no prosecution on this material.