[Reader-list] Fwd: 'Modi govt didn’t act to stop riots'

[Asit Das]

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/-modi-govt-didn-t-act-to-stop-riots-/1137969/

Gujarat EDN

IE  05JUL2013
'Modi govt didn’t act to stop riots'

Express news service <http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/ens/> :
Ahmedabad, Fri Jul 05 2013,

Resuming their arguments, Zakia Jafri's lawyers told a metropolitan court
Thursday that the Narendra Modi government deliberately did not take action
to control violence in the wake of Godhra train carnage on February 27,
2002.

Zakia, widow of former Congress MP Ahsan Jafri who was killed by rioters at
his Gulberg Society residence in Ahmedabad during the post-Godhra riots,
has filed a petition challenging the SC-appointed SIT's clean chit to Modi
and others in connection with the riots.

Zakia's lawyer Mihir Desai told the court the city police had received
information that there was a truck laden with weapons at Rakhiyal in
Ahmedabad. He said this information was furnished by the then police
commissioner P C Pande in the court in 2011.

Desai told the court that Modi had used mobile phones issued to his aides
like his personal assistant O P Singh, Tanmay Mehta, Sanjay Bhavsar and A K
Sharma, but the SIT deliberately did not take their statements. Desai also
said the SIT did not investigate how Modi and his bureaucrats were located
near Gulberg Society on February 27, before they flew to Vadodara. The next
hearing is scheduled for July 18.

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