Despite SIT exonerating Modi, some are spreading lies:Guj govt

"Never in the history of Indian governance has the probe carried out by the SIT been so exhaustive. The SIT report has shattered the credibility of falsifiers who are out to malign the Gujarat government," state government's spokesperson and Health Minister Jaynarayan Vyas said here.

"We challenge the people who are out to spread lies regarding the final report of the Special Investigation Team in relation to the allegations made by Zakia Jaffery," he said.

"Even as the SIT has exonerated the chief minister, some elements have not ceased from spreading lies to mislead people of the country and to defame the Gujarat government... They should show some moral courage to accept the truth."

The SIT recently filed a closure report in the court giving clean chit to Narendra Modi and others regarding the complaint filed by Zakia, widow of former Congress MP Eshan Jaffery, who was killed with 68 others in the Gulburg Society riot incident.

But SC-appointed amicus curie Raju Ramchandran has said that Modi can be tried for promoting enmity between religious groups.

Ramchandran has, however, accepted that Modi did all that was possible to control riots in Ahmedabad.

On Congress saying that Ramchandran's report is enough, Vyas retorted, "Congress is confident of seeing evil out of anything. If these kind of allegations that they are making, which according to me are absolutely wild and baseless, if the chief minister were asked to resign, I think none of the Congress chief ministers would have been in office."

The SIT closure report said that Ramchandran made a mistake by relying on the statement of suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, whose claim that he (Bhatt) was present in the February 27, 2002 meeting held at Modi's residence had not been corroborated by seven senior IPS and IAS officials who were present there.

Bhatt had alleged that Modi, in this meeting, instructed police to allow Hindus to vent their anger following the Godhra train burning incident. (More)