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2002 Gujarat riots: SIT’s fees in opposition to Ahmed Patel a part of PM Modi’s technique ‘to absolve himself of duty’, says Congress

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NEW DELHI: The Congress on Saturday disregarded as “mischievous and manufactured”, Gujarat police SIT’s fees that its chief Ahmed Patel had financed civil rights activist Teesta Setalvad and hatched a conspiracy to dislodge the then Leader Minister Narendra Modi-led state govt.

“This is a part of the High Minister’s systematic technique to absolve himself of any duty for the communal carnage unleashed when he was once leader minister of Gujarat in 2002. It was once his unwillingness and disability to keep an eye on this carnage that had led the-then High Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee to remind the manager minister of his ‘rajdharma’,” Congress Basic Secretary Jairam Ramesh stated.

The remark stated that that is High Minister’s political vendetta system which doesn’t even spare the departed who had been his political adversaries.

“This SIT is dancing to the music of its political grasp and can sit down anyplace it’s informed to. We know the way an previous SIT leader was once rewarded with a diplomatic task after he had given a ‘blank chit’ to the manager minister,” Jairam stated.

He stated giving judgment via press, in an ongoing judicial procedure, via puppet investigative companies who trumpet wild allegations as intended findings, has been the hallmark of the Modi-Shah duo’s techniques for years.

“That is not anything however any other instance of the similar, with the added object of vilifying a deceased particular person since he’s clearly not able and unavailable to refute such brazen lies.”

Setalvad has been arrested, along side former IPS officials R B Sreekumar and Sanjiv Bhatt, for allegedly fabricating proof to border blameless folks within the Gujarat riots case.

Mentioning the statements of a witness, the SIT HAD stated the conspiracy was once performed on the behest of overdue Ahmed Patel. At Patel’s behest, Setalvad gained Rs 30 lakh after post-Godhra riots in 2002, it alleged.

Setalvad used to satisfy the leaders of a “distinguished nationwide birthday party in energy at the moment in Delhi to implicate names of senior leaders of the BJP govt in rise up instances,” the SIT additional claimed.

It cited any other witness to assert that Setalvad in 2006 had requested a Congress chief why the birthday party was once giving “likelihood to simply Shabana and Javed” and now not making her a member of the Rajya Sabha.

Closing month, the Preferrred Courtroom disregarded the plea filed via Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, difficult the blank chit given via the Particular Investigation Staff (SIT) to then Leader Minister Narendra Modi and several other others within the 2002 Gujarat riots.

Ehsan Jafri was once amongst 69 folks killed all through violence on the Gulbarg Society in Ahmedabad on February 28, 2002. His widow Zakia Jafri challenged the SIT’s blank chit to 64 folks together with Narendra Modi who was once Leader Minister of Gujarat on the time.

After 58 pilgrims had been burnt alive at the Sabarmati Specific educate at Gujarat’s Godhra Railway Station on February 27, 2002, riots broke out around the state during which greater than 1,000 folks had been killed. (ANI)

ALSO READ | Pinarayi flays Congress’ ‘silence’ on arrests of RB Sreekumar, Teesta Setalvad

(With on-line table inputs)

NEW DELHI: The Congress on Saturday disregarded as “mischievous and manufactured”, Gujarat police SIT’s fees that its chief Ahmed Patel had financed civil rights activist Teesta Setalvad and hatched a conspiracy to dislodge the then Leader Minister Narendra Modi-led state govt.

“This is a part of the High Minister’s systematic technique to absolve himself of any duty for the communal carnage unleashed when he was once leader minister of Gujarat in 2002. It was once his unwillingness and disability to keep an eye on this carnage that had led the-then High Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee to remind the manager minister of his ‘rajdharma’,” Congress Basic Secretary Jairam Ramesh stated.

The remark stated that that is High Minister’s political vendetta system which doesn’t even spare the departed who had been his political adversaries.

“This SIT is dancing to the music of its political grasp and can sit down anyplace it’s informed to. We know the way an previous SIT leader was once rewarded with a diplomatic task after he had given a ‘blank chit’ to the manager minister,” Jairam stated.

He stated giving judgment via press, in an ongoing judicial procedure, via puppet investigative companies who trumpet wild allegations as intended findings, has been the hallmark of the Modi-Shah duo’s techniques for years.

“That is not anything however any other instance of the similar, with the added object of vilifying a deceased particular person since he’s clearly not able and unavailable to refute such brazen lies.”

Setalvad has been arrested, along side former IPS officials R B Sreekumar and Sanjiv Bhatt, for allegedly fabricating proof to border blameless folks within the Gujarat riots case.

Mentioning the statements of a witness, the SIT HAD stated the conspiracy was once performed on the behest of overdue Ahmed Patel. At Patel’s behest, Setalvad gained Rs 30 lakh after post-Godhra riots in 2002, it alleged.

Setalvad used to satisfy the leaders of a “distinguished nationwide birthday party in energy at the moment in Delhi to implicate names of senior leaders of the BJP govt in rise up instances,” the SIT additional claimed.

It cited any other witness to assert that Setalvad in 2006 had requested a Congress chief why the birthday party was once giving “likelihood to simply Shabana and Javed” and now not making her a member of the Rajya Sabha.

Closing month, the Preferrred Courtroom disregarded the plea filed via Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, difficult the blank chit given via the Particular Investigation Staff (SIT) to then Leader Minister Narendra Modi and several other others within the 2002 Gujarat riots.

Ehsan Jafri was once amongst 69 folks killed all through violence on the Gulbarg Society in Ahmedabad on February 28, 2002. His widow Zakia Jafri challenged the SIT’s blank chit to 64 folks together with Narendra Modi who was once Leader Minister of Gujarat on the time.

After 58 pilgrims had been burnt alive at the Sabarmati Specific educate at Gujarat’s Godhra Railway Station on February 27, 2002, riots broke out around the state during which greater than 1,000 folks had been killed. (ANI)

ALSO READ | Pinarayi flays Congress’ ‘silence’ on arrests of RB Sreekumar, Teesta Setalvad

(With on-line table inputs)