Court rejects plea to make public SIT report on 2002 Guj riots

Ahmedabad: A local court today rejected a plea by the widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jaffrey, killed in the 2002 Gujarat riots, for making public the SIT report on the riots. Metropolitan magistrate M M Bhatt, while rejecting the plea, said the Special Investigation Team (SIT) is yet to submit material related to the report. [caption id=“attachment_232939” align=“alignleft” width=“380” caption=“The court . Screen grab from CNN-IBN”]  [/caption] As per the Supreme Court order after SIT submits its full report on the complaint of Zakia Jaffery, a conclusion was to be drawn by the metropolitan court. Now that the investigation team has not yet submitted the full report, no conclusion can be drawn at this stage. Hence no action is required on the report now, the court said. The court had earlier directed the SIT to submit its full report by 15 March. The apex court, in a September 2011 order, had directed the SIT to file its final report before the magistrate court and had said that if the magistrate decides to close the case he has to provide the full SIT report to the complainant and hear her, before closing it. Last month, the SIT had submitted its final report in a sealed cover on a complaint by Zakia demanding that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and other top politicians, police officers and bureaucrats should be made accused for the 2002 riots cases. PTI