Ahmedabad, Oct 28: A local court is likely to pronounce its order on Monday on Zakia Jafri's petition against closure report of Supreme Court-appointed SIT, giving clean chit to chief minister Narendra Modi and others regarding their role in the 2002 riots.
Arguments on Jafri's petition by her lawyers and the Special Investigation Team's (SIT) counsel had continued for five months in the court of metropolitan magistrate BJ Ganatra, following which Jafri's lawyer handed over written submissions to the court on September 18. On September 30, SIT filed its written submissions and magistrate Ganatra said he would pronounce the order on October 28.
Jafri, whose husband, former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, was among the 69 people killed in the Gulbarg Society massacre during the 2002 riots, had filed a petition objecting to the SIT's closure report absolving Modi of any conspiracy.
After completing its investigation into Jafri's complaint, SIT on February 8, 2012, had filed the probe report concluding that despite difficulties in obtaining evidence in the case because of the lapse of eight years, whatever material it could gather was not sufficient to prosecute those against whom allegations of conspiracy for 2002 riots had been levelled.
Protesting SIT's report, Jafri, on April 15 this year, filed a petition demanding rejection of the report as well as an order from the court to file chargesheet against Modi and others.
While defending its report and demanding the rejection of Jafri's petition, SIT counsel R S Jamuar had submitted that no direct or circumstantial evidence has been found during its investigation which can prima facie support Jafri's allegations.
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