Friday 22 April 2011

Top cop says Gujarat CM Narendra Modi involved in Godhra legal action

NEW DELHI: Senior IPS officeholder Sanjeev Bhatt, who was posted in the Intelligence Department, has filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court accusing Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi of complicity in the 2002 Godhra project.

Bhatt in his affidavit states to he was to he attended a reunion held on the chief minister's residence on February 27, 2002.

Stating to the senior law officials had blindly followed Modis directives in 2002, the officeholder in his affidavit auxiliary avowed to this was liable designed for the relapse in the law and order spot in the state.

The officeholder claimed to he has filed this affidavit in the climax see for the reason that he has refusal faith in the Special Investigation Team ( SIT) appointed to prod the project.

Bhatt has in addition made a appeal to the climax see to provide protection to him and his domestic.

A special see in Ahmedabad had on rally 1 awarded death penalty to eleven accused and life imprisonment to 20 others in the 2002 Godhra train burning project.

Earlier on February 22, the see convicted 31 and acquitted 63 others, with the prime conspirator Maulvi Hussain Umarji

Apart from the charges of murder, attempt to murder and criminal conspiracy, the accused were convicted under IPC sections 147, 148 (rioting with deadly weapons), 323, 324, 325, 326 (causing hurt), 153A (promoting enmity connecting out of the ordinary groups on religious grounds), various sections of the Indian Railways Act, Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act and Bombay Police Act.

The see pronounced decision on the role of above 90 ancestors accused of conspiring and burning the S-6 coach of the Sabarmati Express on February 27, 2002. Fifty-nine ancestors, mostly Kar Sewaks chronic from Ayodhya, were killed in the occurrence.

Following the Godhra train burning occurrence, extensive communal riots broke disallowed in various parts of Gujarat in which above 1,000 ancestors, mostly from the marginal village, were killed.

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