Eight years after the planned, state-sponsored, anti-Muslim genocide in Gujarat, the probe by a Supreme Court-constituted Special Investigation Team (SIT) into nine most gruesome riot cases appears to be moving closer to investigating the actions of chief minister Narendra Modi during the period of violence. On January 19, former Director CBI R.K. Raghavan-led team complained to a Supreme Court Bench comprising Justices D K Jain, P Sathasivam and Aftab Alam that the Gujarat government had stonewalled its request for copies of speeches that Modi made in the immediate aftermath of the riots, along with other documents. The Bench directed the state government to immediately supply the SIT with copies of speeches as well as other documents to facilitate the probe. The Apex Court asked the Gujarat government, “If SIT thinks Modi’s speeches were relevant for the purpose of the probe, why wouldn’t you give those to it?” The court also agreed to examine a plea, supported by the Centre, to reconstitute SIT on the ground that it had not been discharging its brief satisfactorily.
GOVT. TOLD TO SUPPLY COPIES OF MODI’S HATE SPEECHES TO SIT
GOVT. TOLD TO SUPPLY COPIES OF MODI’S HATE SPEECHES TO SIT
