Gujarat case: Court rejects plea for further probe of phone call records CD
April 26th, 2011 - 10:29 pm ICT by ANIAhmedabad, Apr 26 (ANI): A special court trying the Gulbarg carnage case of the 2002 Gujarat riots on Tuesday rejected the plea for further probe of the CD containing records of phone calls between police officers, political leaders and some of the accused during riots.
While talking to the media after the hearing, Robin Mogera, the lawyer of the accused, said there was no need for the release of the report of M. K. Tandon, one of the investigative officers of the case, to the plaintiff’s lawyer, who had requested for it in an application.
“Mr. M. K. Tandon’s inquiry report is directly submitted to the Honourable Supreme Court by the SIT (Special Investigation Team). So there is no need to produce those reports in this court. That is why this application has been rejected,” he said.
Mogera further said information of call details that were sought in an application would also have to wait till the SIT finishes its investigations.
“In that regard, the Honourable Supreme Court has directed the SIT to investigate and SIT is investigating the matter. And call details of certain accused of Gulbarg are already produced in the court. As for the call details of other persons, the investigation is being carried out by SIT. Therefore, these applications are rejected by the honourable court,” he said.
The lawyers of the victims of the 2002 Gulbarg Society case had filed three applications in the special court.
The first one sought further investigations in the case, while the second one wanted an examination of a witness officer of the forensic sciences laboratory (FSL).
The third application requested Tandon’s inquiry report be produced.
The Gulbarg Society massacre took place on February 28, 2002, during the religious riots, when a mob attacked the Gulbarg Society, a lower middle-class Muslim neighbourhood in Ahmedabad.
About 35 people, including a former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, were burnt alive in the incident.
The Gujarat riots, considered the bloodiest incident of sectarian violence in the country since independence, had claimed more than 2,500 lives and displaced hundreds of thousands of people. (ANI)
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