Ahmedabad:
Maintaining that there was enough evidence to prosecute Gujarat Chief
Minister Narendra Modi for his alleged role in the post-Godhra riots,
the lawyer of Zakia Jafri on Wednesday submitted his written submissions
before the metropolitan magistrate.
The
Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) is expected to
file its reply by September 25. Arguments are already over.
Jafri,
whose husband and former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri was killed in the
post-2002 riots, had filed a protest petition against the closure report
filed last February by SIT, which gave a clean chit to Modi.
In its submissions to magistrate BJ Ganatra on Wednesday, her lawyer Mihir Desai said that Modi wilfully ignored messages from state intelligence between February 7, 2002 and February 25, 2002 regarding RSS-VHP's mahayagna and precautionary measures were not initiated by the state.
In its submissions to magistrate BJ Ganatra on Wednesday, her lawyer Mihir Desai said that Modi wilfully ignored messages from state intelligence between February 7, 2002 and February 25, 2002 regarding RSS-VHP's mahayagna and precautionary measures were not initiated by the state.
Modi,
who also held the home portfolio then, concealed the information about
provocative, anti-Muslim sloganeering by kar sevaks at the Godhra
railway station on February 27, 2002, the day the carnage took place,
from the public, Desai says.
Desai
has alleged that Modi conspired with the VHP to plot and allow reprisal
killings all over Gujarat. He further submits that Modi brazenly
supported the bandh call given by VHP and allowed the streets and public
spaces of Gujarat to be used for mass attacks and violence.
Modi
specifically instructed his top policemen and administrators not to act
even-handedly in the days after the Godhra carnage and "allow Hindus to
vent their anger," Desai has submitted.
The violence was allowed to continue by Modi till May 2002, he says.
