Court seeks Gulberg case-related documents from SIT

The special court conducting the trial in Gulberg society massacre case here today directed the Supreme Court-appointed special investigation team to submit all the documents related to the case from its closure report on the complaint filed by Zakia Jafri.
Judge P B Desai asked the SIT to segregate the documents related to the Gulberg case from the closure report on Jafri's complaint against the then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others and submit these by December 6.
Victims or their lawyers would then be able to inspect these documents till December 9. The court is likely to hear the plea of victims seeking arraignment of four IPS officer in the case for their alleged negligence on December 9.

These officers -- now retired -- are the then city police commissioner P C Pandey, joint commissioner of police M K Tandon and assistant commissioners of police P B Gondia and S S Chudasama.
Advocate S M Vora, on behalf of the victims, had contended that the SIT report, filed in 2012 on the plea of Jafri, has documents running into 25,000 pages, and the SIT should submit the Gulberg case-related documents before this court.
Jafri's husband and former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri was among those killed by the mob at Gulberg Society during the post-Godhra riots of 2002.

The SIT's report gave a clean hit to Modi and others with regard to their alleged complicity in facilitating the riots.

A day after the train burning incident at Godhra, 39 persons, including Ehsan Jafri, were killed and 30 went missing in an attack by a mob at Gulberg Society in Meghaninagar area in the city on February 28, 2002.
Trial of the case is underway on a daily basis.