SIT hears Jakia Jafri, Teesta | ||
They allege that at a Feb 27, 2002, meeting, the CM told cops to go easy on rioters | ||
DNA Correspondent. Gandhinagar | ||
In their hour-long deposition before the investigation team, Jakia Jafri and Setalvad told the SIT chief, RK Raghavan, about the meeting that was allegedly convened by Modi in the chief minister's chamber on the night of February 27, 2002. At the meeting, Modi had allegedly ordered that police officials should "lie low and allow people of Gujarat to express their anger". Speaking to media persons outside the SIT office in Gandhinagar, Jakia Jafri said, "It was because of the CM's instructions that the police did nothing to stop the rioters." Setalvad also told the SIT that information about the meeting convened by the chief minister in his chamber on February 27, 2002 was given by former minister of state, home, Haren Pandya, in his deposition before a citizen's tribunal on May 13, 2002. "I, along with at least five other members of the tribunal, was present at Pandya's deposition where he revealed the details of the order that the chief minister had given on the night of February 27," Setalvad said. Raghavan later told reporters that Setalvad was summoned by the SIT as part of its investigation into the role of Modi and other politicians and bureaucrats in the riots of 2002. • More on p2 & 14 |
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May 31, 2009
Teesta Setalvad and Jakia Jafri depose at the SIT probe on Gujarat riots of 2002
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