Ahmedabad: Maintaining that there was enough evidence to prosecute Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for his alleged role in the post-Godhra riots, the lawyer of Zakia Jafri on Wednesday submitted his written submissions before the metropolitan magistrate.
The Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) is expected to file its reply by September 25. Arguments are already over.
Jafri, whose husband and former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri was killed in the post-2002 riots, had filed a protest petition against the closure report filed last February by SIT, which gave a clean chit to Modi.
In its submissions to magistrate BJ Ganatra on Wednesday, her lawyer Mihir Desai said that Modi wilfully ignored messages from state intelligence between February 7, 2002 and February 25, 2002 regarding RSS-VHP's mahayagna and precautionary measures were not initiated by the state.
Modi, who also held the home portfolio then, concealed the information about provocative, anti-Muslim sloganeering by kar sevaks at the Godhra railway station on February 27, 2002, the day the carnage took place, from the public, Desai says.
