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

Rohatgi: My submission in this regard was that if the complaint was like this then the petitioner cannot get a hearing under 136 of the Constitution.

Rohatgi: The reason was that originally they wanted to treat him as an accused but, now they want to treat him as a witness. SIT found all the three- Shreekumar, Sharma and Sanjeev Bhatt were unreliable.

Rohatgi: There is no answer of the doctoring of the complaint. He said that we had told SIT that he will be a witness vis-a-vis an accused. The question is different, it is, why have they(Petitioner) deliberately filed a wrong copy of the complaint in the SC.

Rohatgi: They(Petitioner) said we never argued that protest be treated as part of complaint. It was repeatedly argued that you forget about my complaint, when the protest was before the Mag, why did he (Mag) not look at it.

Rohatgi: My Ld. Friend also said he did not argue on parading between Godhra to Solah and he now claims that parading means after the bodies were given to the kins. He is now twisting the argument. While his case is that the bodies were paraded from Godhra.

Rohatgi: In Mr. Sibal’s note your lordship might correct that, this is Anil Shankarbhai Patel. It (Petitioner) says no statement recorded. We recorded statements of all three. 18 persons were stung by operation, out of that 13 persons’ testimony are in para 30.

Rohatgi : There are three Anil Patels, Anil Patel - Doctor, Anil Patel - Minister, Anil Shankarbhai Patel - VHP, stung by Tehelka.

Rohatgi: They say Babu Bajrangi was convicted on the basis of tapes. They were at best extra-judicial. He was convicted on the basis of other evidence.

Sibal: Very few times in the history of this court ...when majesty of law is being tested. I am not interested in targeting anybody, under criminal law you take cognisance of offences not of offenders. Deeply grateful to your lordships.

Sibal: Then he talks about treating protest as complaint. Para 78. This was argued before the Mag. But I have never argued this point. So, that deals with my Ld. Friend’s compilation.