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

Bench: This was read to us.

Rohatgi: By them. They argued take protest as complaint.

Bench: This was read to us.

Rohatgi: Kindly see 304 middle. Kindly come back to Vol I for a second. When this court said ‘look into’ what does it mean. That you will find in Vol I.

Bench: The TC refused to distinguish between preliminary enquiry and further investigation. So, in that context the statement of not agreeing submission of SIT was made.

Bench: This translation [TC judgment in SLP] may not be accurate.

Mr. Shukla reads the Gujarati version of the judgment for clarity.

Bench: In page 303, it says that court is not agreed with any of these submissions of SIT.

Rohatgi: That is a translation problem.

Mr. Rohatgi asks Mr. Shukla (SIT) to read in Gujarati.

Rohatgi: Kindly turn to 304. This is slack review. Kindly come to 302, middle of the page. He[TC] says there is no slack review, SC asked IG Ranges to look into it, they did so and submitted report.

Bench: Can you give us the correct version of this portion?

Rohatgi: What we’ll do is in HC judgement wherever there is a Gujarati portion, we will translate that.

Bench: The confusion is with TC judgment.

Rohatgi: I’ll do that.

Rohatgi: There is a reproduction at pg. 288. of Single Judge’s (HC) judgment of 2007.

Bench: From where to where is the quotation. Make the Gujarati copy available so that we can compare.

Mr. Rohatgi clarifies the extent of the quotations from the HC judgment.

Rohatgi: Then is the ‘slack review' of cases in 2004. This has nothing to do with SIT, but it went into every allegation.

Rohatgi: Then the meeting of 28.02.2002. A wireless message was sent in the morning. There was informal alert to army is on 27.02.2002 itself. The formal was on 28.02.2002 at 2PM. The court [TC] believed the conclusion of SIT to be correct.