Miscellaneous news and discussion - 2

[Guest]

[size="6"]Complaint against team probing Gujarat riots[/size]







First the Best Bakery Case trial was moved out of Gujarat after the victims complained of intimidation by the state. Then the Bilkis Bano Rape Case was transferred to Mumbai because the Supreme Court found Gujarat unable to deliver unbiased justice. Now, in the crucial Gujarat Riots cases, the public prosecutors have resigned alleging the court is communally biased and the Special Investigation Team indifferent.



The credibility of the Special Investigation Team that has summoned Gujarat CM Narendra Modi in connection with Ehsaan Jaffrey murder case in the 2002 Gujarat riots is also under scrutiny in the Supreme Court. (Read: Modi summoned by Supreme Court panel)



The court hearing the Gujarat Riots Cases is biased against witnesses and the Special Investigation Team re-investigating Gujarat Riots cases is indifferent, these are the strong allegations that have been made by Public Prosecutors R K Shah and Nayana Bhatt who have officially complained and resigned from the case.



Two months ago, activists filed a complaint against the SIT on the grounds that it includes Shivanand Jha, a police officer accused by Zakiya Jaffrey in her complaint.



Activists are also upset that the SIT has been slow to summon Modi and that the SIT's chief, RK Raghavan, does not spend enough time in Ahmedabad.



The complaint has also asked for the SIT to be reconstituted.



The panel filed its defence in the Supreme Court on Thursday and it will be examined by the court on Monday.



More crucially, the SIT has not submitted another crucial evidence in court: The CD, that has telephone call data of government leaders and officials in the first few days of Gujarat riots.



Sources say if the SIT does not swiftly makes a case of hard technical evidence to back the accusations of conspiracy, Modi might just be able to escape with SIT without a scar.



http://www.ndtv.com/news/india/complaint...-17580.php