SIT overlooked Modi government's documents destruction: Lawyer

The Supreme Court-appointed SIT overlooked the Narendra Modi government's acts of tampering and destructing sensitive records related to the 2002 riots, Godhra riot victim Zakia Jafri told a court here today.
"The SIT totally overlooked as well as ignored the tempering and destruction of 2002 post-Godhra riot-related sensitive records and documents by the Gujarat government which would have established our accusations of conspiracy, aiding and abetment of riots by the accused," Jafri's advocate Mihir Desai said.
Desai was arguing before Metropolitan Magistrate B J Ganatra on behalf of Jafri who has filed a petition protesting the SIT closure report giving a clean chit to Modi and others for their alleged role in the 2002 post-Godhra riots.

In her petition, Jafri sought rejection of the SIT's closure report and filing of a charge sheet against Modi and others.
Today Desai submitted before the court some relevant material collected by SIT during its investigation.
Citing records of facsimiles, telex and wireless messages, Desai said, "There were clear signs of many documents missing or being tempered with, but still the SIT did not probe it.
"The SIT has collected the inward register of fax at the Chief Minister's office, but not the outward register. Even in the inward register, many entries have corrections. But the SIT has not even probed it."

About destruction of records, Desai questioned the event's timing and said, "The government has destroyed many relevant records four days after the Supreme Court appointed the Special Investigation Team (SIT) for Gujarat riots, but the SIT has not even bothered to investigate why within four days of its formation, records were destroyed".