OPINION | SC clear chit to Modi: Let individuals know who had been the true ‘Maut Ke Saudagar’.
Within the midst of the continuing continuous political potboiler happening in Maharashtra, got here excellent news for Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, when a division bench of Supreme Court docket upheld the findings of the Particular Investigation Workforce, which had given a clear chit to Modi within the 2002 Gujarat riots case.
Justice A M Khanwilkar, Justice Dinesh Maheshwari and Justice CT Ravikumar rejected the petition of Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, who was killed by rioters, and activist Teesta Setalvad, in search of a probe into the “bigger conspiracy” behind the Gujarat riots. The bench, after going by means of all allegations in opposition to the then CM Narendra Modi and different officers, and skimming the findings of the SIT headed by RK Raghavan, ex-CBI chief, got here to the conclusion that there was no proof to show that the Gujarat riots of 2002 had been the results of a prison conspiracy hatched on the highest stage, when Modi was chief minister.
The bench mentioned: “To sum up, we’re of the thought of opinion that no fault may be discovered with the strategy of the SIT in submitting ultimate report dated 8.2.2012, which is backed by agency logic, expositing analytical thoughts and coping with all elements objectively for discarding the allegations relating to bigger prison conspiracy (on the highest stage) for inflicting and precipitating mass violence throughout the state in opposition to the minority neighborhood throughout the related interval.”
The Supreme Court docket took to job two former IPS officers R B Sreekumar and Sanjiv Bhatt for giving false testimonies to sensationalize the problem by incriminating Modi and others. The apex court docket urged that these behind the ulterior deign for retaining the problem boiling for the final 16 years should be delivered to e-book. The court docket termed them as ‘disgruntled’.
Whereas rejecting Zakia Jafri’s plea for a bigger probe, the apex court docket mentioned that the SIT had carried out an intensive probe below the supervision of Supreme Court docket and questioning the findings of the report would quantity to travesty of justice and doubting the knowledge of this court docket which had supervised/monitored the probe.
Hailing the SC verdict which has drawn a curtain over all allegations in opposition to Modi, BJP chief Ravi Shankar Prasad mentioned: “Right this moment I wish to ask Congress, Left and others, your complete store was operating on the marketing campaign in opposition to Narendra Modi for the final 20 years, what number of extra days will you run this store now?”
Residence Minister Amit Shah, in an interview to a information company on Saturday, mentioned, “the reality has come out shining like gold. Modi ji had silently endured ache for the final 19 years, like Lord Shiva who swallowed poison and held it in his throat….It was a battle for 19 years, and an awesome chief like Narendra Modi endured the ache like Lord Shiva.”
Amit Shah mentioned, “I’ve intently seen Modiji enduring the ache, going through allegations regardless of being on the aspect of reality, and for the reason that matter was in court docket, he by no means spoke on this challenge. Solely a person with a powerful coronary heart can do that….He endured all of it silently.”
Probably the most notable a part of Friday’s Supreme Court docket verdict was that the bench mentioned, co-petitioner Teesta Setalvad used the feelings of Zakia Jafri for her profit. To play with the feelings and ache over the loss of life of a woman’s husband is nothing wanting crime. The Supreme Court docket clearly went by means of all of the findings and evidences and located that Teesta Setalbad exploited Zakia Jafri’s ache to tarnish Narendra Modi’s picture.
That’s the reason the apex court docket has mentioned, “On the finish of the day, it seems to us {that a} coalesced effort of the disgruntled officers of the state, together with others, was to create sensation by making revelations which had been false to their very own data. The falsity of their claims had been totally uncovered by the SIT…All these concerned in such abuse of course of, should be within the dock and proceeded with, in accordance with the regulation.”
In my view, sufficient is sufficient. All the chapter regarding Narendra Modi and Gujarat riots should now be closed, and the file in regards to the function of activists like Teesta Setalvad ought to be opened. If we actually respect the emotions of the Supreme Court docket, the sport to defame Narendra Modi for Gujarat riots should now be delivered to an finish. Probe ought to start in opposition to those that used the riots and the riot victims for his or her political vested pursuits. The individuals of India have the correct to know who had been the true ‘Maut Ke Saudagar’ (retailers of loss of life).
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