SIT 'CLEAN CHIT' TO MODI CREATES UPROAR

Reports that the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) did not find any ‘substantial incriminating evidence’ against Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 riots case has created uproar amongst activists. The SIT has submitted its report to the Apex Court on allegations levelled by Zakia Jafri, wife of former Congress MP Ahsan Jafri, who was killed in the riots in Gulbarg Society. The information, based on leaked reports, was not confirmed by SIT officials. Retired IPS officer, RB Sreekumar, who had submitted six affidavits to SIT in connection with the riots case, said that “SIT officials had acted as a team of lawyers to save Modi from being accused in the riots.” He further said that the SIT officials did not take any note of his affidavits as well as a major part of Zakia Jafri’s complaint. “As many as 33 pages of Jafri’s complaint have been included from my affidavits submitted to SIT, yet nothing has been done in this connection,” he added.