SIT ASKED TO REINVESTIGATE NARODA, GULBARG CASES

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the riot cases has been reportedly asked by the Supreme Court to re-investigate the Naroda Patia, Naroda Gaam and Gulbarg Society cases. Apparently several anomalies are cropping up in the SIT investigation in the post-Godhra cases. The SIT in it’s report submitted to the SC on the preliminary inquiry into the complaint filed by Zakia Jafri against chief minister Narendra Modi and 61 bureaucrats, police officers and politicians, has found only former junior home minister Gordhan Zadaphia, retired additional DGP MK Tandon and IGP PB Gondia, guilty. This suggests that the agency set up by the SC which questioned Modi for over nine hours, did not find any evidence against him so far. The Zakia petition deals with the larger conspiracy, charging these people with omission and commission during the riots. The SC has asked superintendent of police Himanshu Shukla to reinvestigate these three cases and report directly to it.