Zakia Jafri, spouse of late Congress MP Ahsan Jafri, who was killed through the 2002 Godhra riots, advised the Supreme Court on Wednesday that she had not spoken about her allegations of a bigger conspiracy behind the riots whereas testifying within the Gulberg Society trial. . case of homicide, as she was solely a prosecution witness and never a complainant in that case.
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, showing for Jafri, advised a bench headed by Justice AM Khanwilkar that being a prosecution witness, she needed to confine her statements to no matter she knew about that exact case.
He mentioned Jafri couldn’t consider what he had mentioned in his 2006 grievance, because it was not talked about within the Gulberg Society’s chargesheet. “She cannot rely on the document which was not mentioned in the chargesheet,” Sibal advised the bench.
The courtroom is listening to Jafri’s enchantment difficult the order of the Gujarat High Court upholding the order of the Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Ahmedabad, to simply accept the closure report filed by the SIT, which had directed the then Gujarat CM Narendra Modi and Others got clear chit within the riot- associated issues regardless of the protest petition.
Sibal mentioned that he was not going into a few of the developments of February 27, 2002, as some details are disputed, “But I would argue that there was a bigger conspiracy. It needs investigation…”
Sibal argued that the closure report is barely an opinion and never an acquittal. “Whether justice has been done or not done will be judged by the generations to come.”
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
