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

Mr. Sibal reads out the statement of Raju Bhargav.

Sibal: Milords, come to page 74. Jayanti Ravi's Statement (15.09.2009.), DM Godhra. 

Sibal:A blind eye to the manual and we land up in this situation, which could have been prevented.

Sibal: We should stop this for this country in future. Then Milords, there is a whole chapter on preventive action at pg 41. Required town patrolling, village patrolling. Manual not followed.

Sibal: Even the constitution is printed words. In the cold print lies the soul of the constitution. You through your pronouncements give it energy, it will come alive, it will not remain dead letter. It is only this court that can give energy to that cold print.

Sibal: On 27.02.2002 you knew yet no action taken. Kindly come to the Guj. Police Manual on preventing violence. Yesterday I read a judgment how a Manual is to be followed and because it was not how the intent of the Investigating agency was suspect.

Sibal: Kindly see Rule 45 - Maintenance of order. Then Rule 46. [Reads out the provisions];

Sibal: Then, Milords, come to para 53, preventive measures to be taken during threatened communal incidents. (Sources of Intelligence to be kept on alert, smallest incident to be reported, nipped in the bud) - This was not investigated, why action was not taken. No investigation.

Sibal: [Message asked to] Keep police bandobast. Then how did 3000 people gather there. Those were not days of WhatsApp. Then milords kindly see item 11, the wireless message.

Sibal: Item 9 on preventive action to be taken at Gandhinagar. Gandhinagar was being warned throughout. So this was anticipated. To prevent mob violence only anticipation works. It is a horrendous tragedy that had happened.

Sibal: Had curfew been declared at night itself, and enough force deployed to see crowds don't gather. None of this would have happened.

Sibal: Incident of killing..all started (on 27.02.2002). These are all fax messages sent from various parts of the State to Gandhinagar about the problems that is going to arise.

Sibal: These are translated by us. SIT did not translated them. We have given the Gujarati versions also. I don't know how SIT read it. Mr. Raghavan was there, they did not know Gujarati.