Second ATR to SC answers questions facing SIT
TNN | Apr 26, 2011, 03.33am IST=============================================================
AHMEDABAD: The Supreme Court-appointed special investigation team (SIT) probing the Naroda-Patia, Naroda Gam and Gulbarg Society incidents of communal rioting filed their second action taken report (ATR) on Monday. The first one was submitted in January, 2011.
The ATR, which was submitted to the SC in a sealed envelope, is likely to take up several critical issues like questions raised by the amicus curiae in the case Raju Ramchandran. A bench of Justice D K Jain, Justice Sathashivam and Justice Aftab Alam, when hearing Zakia Jafri's petition seeking filing an FIR against Narendra Modi and 61 others, asked the SITto answer all queries posted by Ramchandran. The amicus curiae had raised certain issues on the agency's last report filed after questioning chief minister Modi in 2010.
Ramachandran has asked why the SIT did not bother to question deputy inspector general of police Sanjiv Bhatt in detail after he claimed that he had evidence of the people involved in the riots but would give it out only if the investigators filed an FIR. He also wanted to know why the SIT did not investigate the role of IPS officer D G Vanzara, who headed the crime branch when it was handling the biggest post-Godhra massacre cases of Naroda Patia, Naroda Gaam and Gulbarg Society. Vanzara is now in jail in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.
The SIT has also reported that all the wireless messages, recording instructions to the police force during the riots, were destroyed. Ramchandran wanted to know why the SIT did not care to find out a way of retrieving these messages to know what was said to the police.
Following this SIT recorded the statement of Bhatt which generated a lot of controversy. Bhatt also filed a petition before the SC, raising several questions on SIT's functioning and the probe itself.
The ATR filed on Monday is critical as it addresses all these issues along with other matters. Sources said: "All these contentious issues have been addressed in this ATR. Hearing on this ATR will take place at SC on April 27."
The sources said that Modi's questioning, the alleged meeting that the chief minister had held on February 27 at his bungalow and the issues raised by Bhatt, all find mention in this ATR. The ATR also includes investigation done in connection with allegations like Gujarat ministers taking over the Ahmedabad police control room when riots erupted in the city on February 28, 2002.
The ATR, which was submitted to the SC in a sealed envelope, is likely to take up several critical issues like questions raised by the amicus curiae in the case Raju Ramchandran. A bench of Justice D K Jain, Justice Sathashivam and Justice Aftab Alam, when hearing Zakia Jafri's petition seeking filing an FIR against Narendra Modi and 61 others, asked the SITto answer all queries posted by Ramchandran. The amicus curiae had raised certain issues on the agency's last report filed after questioning chief minister Modi in 2010.
Ramachandran has asked why the SIT did not bother to question deputy inspector general of police Sanjiv Bhatt in detail after he claimed that he had evidence of the people involved in the riots but would give it out only if the investigators filed an FIR. He also wanted to know why the SIT did not investigate the role of IPS officer D G Vanzara, who headed the crime branch when it was handling the biggest post-Godhra massacre cases of Naroda Patia, Naroda Gaam and Gulbarg Society. Vanzara is now in jail in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.
The SIT has also reported that all the wireless messages, recording instructions to the police force during the riots, were destroyed. Ramchandran wanted to know why the SIT did not care to find out a way of retrieving these messages to know what was said to the police.
Following this SIT recorded the statement of Bhatt which generated a lot of controversy. Bhatt also filed a petition before the SC, raising several questions on SIT's functioning and the probe itself.
The ATR filed on Monday is critical as it addresses all these issues along with other matters. Sources said: "All these contentious issues have been addressed in this ATR. Hearing on this ATR will take place at SC on April 27."
The sources said that Modi's questioning, the alleged meeting that the chief minister had held on February 27 at his bungalow and the issues raised by Bhatt, all find mention in this ATR. The ATR also includes investigation done in connection with allegations like Gujarat ministers taking over the Ahmedabad police control room when riots erupted in the city on February 28, 2002.
(source:timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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