Ahmedabad: Making serious allegations
against the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team
(SIT), suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt on Friday said that the
agency was "reluctant" in examining key-witnesses about the
February 27, 2002 meeting held at Chief Minister Narendra
Modi's residence.
In a letter to SIT chairman RK Raghavan, Bhatt has
also alleged that the agency was "intentionally disregarding"
important aspects of riot victim Zakia Jaffery's complaint
implicating Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others.
"It seems that the SIT, for some inexplicable reason,
is continuing to intentionally disregard very important
aspects of the investigation into the complaint of Zakia Nasim
Ahesan Jaffery, dated June 8, 2006," Bhatt said in his letter
to Raghavan.
"Nothing illustrates this better than the deliberate
reluctance of the SIT to examine witnesses, who would be able
to provide very vital information about the meeting held at
the residence of the Chief Minister Narendra Modi on the late
night of February 27, 2002," he added.
In April last year, Bhatt had filed an affidavit in
the Supreme Court, in which, he had claimed that he was
present for the meeting called by Modi on the night of
February 27, 2002. He had alleged that during the meeting,
Modi had directed the state officials and his party colleagues
to let "Hindus vent out their anger" during the 2002 riots and
the "Muslims be taught a lesson."
In the letter to SIT, Bhatt further said that during
the course of his deposition, he had submitted to the SIT a
list of key-witnesses, "who could corroborate him about having
attended the meeting held at Modi's residence on the late
night of February 27, 2002."
PTI
First Published: Friday, January 06, 2012, 22:12