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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Guj HC relief for Modi in riots case

Guj HC relief for Modi in riots case

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published Published on Feb 2, 2012   modified Modified on Feb 2, 2012
-The Times of India

The Gujarat high court will not direct the Nanavati-Mehta commission to summon chief minister Narendra Modi and question him about the 2002 Gujarat riots. Civil rights organization Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM) had filed an application demanding that Modi be called by the commission for cross-examination. 

A bench of Justices Akil Kureshi and Sonia Gokani rejected the application and upheld the November 2009 order by a single judge. The bench observed that the decision to summon any person was left to the quasi-judicial body's discretion. 

JSM wanted that Modi, three of his secretaries, politicians and senior cops be cross-examined on the basis of the call records that IPS officer Rahul Sharma had submitted. The call details show that the secretaries were in constant touch with those accused in the 2002 riots even as the violence was on. JSM has alleged complicity of the chief minister's office in the 2002 riots. 

The Nanavati-Mehta commission, formed by the state government to investigate the riots, had rejected JSM's plea in 2009 saying it had not found substantial evidence to summon Modi. The secretaries-Tanmay Mehta, OP Singh and Sanjay Bhavsar-too were not summoned, but were ordered to file affidavits explaining their telephonic conversations. 

JSM then moved the high court, asking it to direct the commission to summon Modi and others. It argued that in 2004 the state government itself had given the commission the powers to summon ministers, including the chief minister, and was duty-bound to summon Modi on basis of the evidence it had on record. 

Justice K S Jhaveri, had rejected the petition, which led to the filing of an appeal before a division bench. The then Chief Justice S J Mukhopadhaya had entertained the appeal and sought answers on various occasions from the commission, which maintained that rejection of JSM application was an interim order. 


The Times of India, 2 February, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Guj-HC-relief-for-Modi-in-riots-case/articleshow/11719036.cms


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