Supreme Court to continue hearing today the petition filed by Zakia Jafri challenging the SIT's clean chit to the then Gujarat CM Narendra Modi & other high functionaries in the #GujaratRiots of 2002. A Bench comprising Justices AM Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and CT Ravikumar will take up the part-heard matter for further hearing. Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi for SIT will continue...
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2021-12-01 05:12:50
1 Dec 2021 11:50 AM IST
Rohatgi: I have summed up in the note. Kindly see the index. The first is a letter issued by PRO telling public at large that if anyone wants to depose they can come to SIT.
Bench: This is at 2008?
1 Dec 2021 11:50 AM IST
Bench: This quotation is from Commission or HC judgment?
Rohatgi: Commission. The recommendation of the Commission is from 225 of the report.
1 Dec 2021 11:43 AM IST
Rohatgi: He should have filed in first affidavit. Credibility is questionable, one allegation found to be false. Every part of his(Shreekumar) report is junked.
1 Dec 2021 11:43 AM IST
Rohatgi: Now, RB Shreekumar. SIT said this man filed several affidavits. First he did not say anything. In 3rd report after suppression he said. Now, see what the Commission said.
1 Dec 2021 11:40 AM IST
Bench: If material was before then perhaps. Your report precedes Commission Report.
Rohatgi: Much before.
1 Dec 2021 11:40 AM IST
Bench: The Commission had not commented on the report of Tribunal. It said the material was not present before the Citizens Tribunal.
1 Dec 2021 11:39 AM IST
Rohatgi: Clear finding that Sharma was evasive and unreliable. In polite words Citizen Tribunal not accpetable.
Rohatgi: 18.11.2014 - Date of Nanavati. Tabled in Assembly in Dec, 2019
1 Dec 2021 11:39 AM IST
Mr. Rohatgi reading the finding of Commission of Rahul Sharma. It found that Rahul Sharma was not telling the truth with regard to possession of original CDs. Original CDs not available, the data provided by him not reliable and cannot be accepted.
1 Dec 2021 11:32 AM IST
Rohatgi: See about Mr. Sharma. We discounted his evidence. Now I’ll show what the Commission says. It will sound as repetition because it is same as what SIT found.
1 Dec 2021 11:32 AM IST
Bench: Date of Commission’s report?
Rohatgi: I’ll give you, your lordship. It’s 3000 pg long report, running in 9 vol.
Rohatgi: Commission found no substance regarding allegation of parading.
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