Ahmedabad: A Special Court on Monday allowed
the Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing afresh some of
the post-Godhra riot cases, to take voice samples of three
accused in the Naroda Patiya case, who were video-taped during
a sting operation by a magazine in 2007.
The Supreme Court-appointed SIT had last month filed
an application seeking permission to take voice spectrograph
of Babu Bajrangi, Suresh Langdo and Prakash Rathod, accused of
rioting at Naroda Patiya here, among the areas worst hit by
the communal violence in the wake of Sabarmati train burning.
Designated judge Jyotsna Yagnik, while allowing SIT's
application, asked the agency to collect the voice samples
and do the voice spectrograph at the earliest.
The SIT petition said they wanted to cross-check
claims of the journalist who carried out the sting operation.
The operation using a hidden camera caught the trio
describing how they carried out the attack along with other
leaders of saffron brigade and politicians, and how they were
given free hand by the police.
The probe agency has already recorded the statement of
Tehelka reporter Ashish Khaitan, who carried out the sting.
Ninety-five persons were killed in Naroda Patiya on
February 28, 2002. SIT had filed chargesheet against over 60
persons in the case, which include former minister in the
Narendra Modi government Maya Kodnani.
PTI
First Published: Monday, February 08, 2010, 20:40