Zakia Jafri, widow of slain Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, told the Supreme Court on Thursday that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) which gave a clean chit to then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 communal riots should itself be investigated for rendering conclusions contrary to facts. Senior lawyer Kapil Sibal, representing Jafri, alleged that the SIT did not do ‘investigation’ but did a ‘collaborative exercise’ and its probe was fraught with omissions to protect conspirators.
“The SIT was rendering conclusions contrary to facts they were aware of. In fact, SIT should be investigated. It is true...I am not concerned with individuals. I am concerned with the process. I am only saying SIT did not do its job. It was an act of protection. It did a collaborative exercise,” said Sibal. He said that there was evidence in the form of electronic records including call data records of senior police officials and mobs identifying houses of Muslims, all of which pointed towards conspiracy.
But the SIT ignored all of it and did not conduct any further investigation into the and the Magistrate and High Court too chose to overlook the same, he contended.