-PTI   The Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Sunday opposed sharing with activists its final report on the probe into allegations of Gujarat CM Narendra Modi's involvement in 2002 riots, as a court reserved till Wednesday its order on their plea seeking access to the crucial document.  During the hearing in the court of metropolitan magistrate M S Bhatt, the SC-appointed SIT opposed the applications by Teesta Seetalvad and other activists, saying some...

In the past week the media has been reporting that the SIT has filed a closure report that gives a “clean chit” to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on the grounds that there is no prosecutable evidence against him. However, Tehelka has now scooped amicus curiae Raju Ramachandran’s explosive confidential report that had told the Supreme Court that Modi should be chargesheeted and prosecuted for serious criminal offences like promoting religious...

But claim of absence of evidence at odds with amicus report The Special Investigation Team probing Zakia Jafri's complaint has freed Chief Minister Narendra Modi of all charges in the 2002 Gujarat pogrom against Muslims. In a “summary closure report” — filed before the magistrate's court in Ahmedabad on Wednesday — the R.K. Raghavan-led SIT said there was no “prosecutable evidence” against Mr. Modi, who was among 62 persons named in...

Allegations against the CM were not established: report The Special Investigation Team headed by R.K. Raghavan gave a ‘clean chit' to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in May 2010 when it submitted to the Supreme Court its first report on the complaint of Zakia Jafri, whose husband Ehsan Jaffri, former Congress MP, was among the 69 persons killed in the Gulberg Housing Society riots in 2002. The SIT, in its report, said:...

-PTI A magisterial court on Thursday issued notices to Supreme Court-appointed SIT after social activists Teesta Setalvad and Mukul Sinha filed two separate applications seeking the copies of the SIT report filed in the Zakia Jafri case. The court of metropolitan magistrate M S Bhatt issued notices to the SIT and posted the hearing to Feb 13. The SIT on Wednesday filed a closure report in the sealed cover on the complaint of...