New Delhi: The Supreme Court today
decided to consider an application seeking recall of its order
handing over to SIT a complaint relating to 2002 Gujarat riots
in which Chief Minister Narendra Modi has been named as one of
the 63 accused.
The application in this regard was filed by the BJP
MLA Kalubhai Maliwad who has also been made an accused in the
complaint filed by Zakia Jaffry, wife of Congress leader
Ehsaan Jafri who was killed in the riots at the Gulbarga
society in Ahmedabad.
Eminent criminal lawyer Ram Jethmalani has moved the plea on behalf of the MLA in the apex court.
Modi was summoned by the SIT on March 21 in connection
with the probe of the case. This move is being seen as an attempt by him to duck the probe.
Meanwhile, a three judge bench headed by Justice D K
Jain asked the trial court in Ahmedabad to defer its hearing
in the Gulburga society case.
The order to this effect was passed in view of a
petition filed in Gujarat High Court seeking transfer of the
case to another trial court judge.
Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium and senior
advocate Harish Salve, who is assisting the court in the
matter as amicus curiae, informed the bench that Special
Public Prosecutor R K Shah has tended his resignation making
certain allegations against the presiding officer (Judge) and
the SIT.
-PTI
First Published: Monday, March 15, 2010, 23:23