Summoning Modi: NGO moves HC on Nanavati panel decision
Ahmedabad: An NGO representing some of
the 2002 post-Godhra riot victims on Wednesday challenged the
Nanavati Commission's order declining to summon Chief Minister
Narendra Modi and others in the Gujarat High Court.
A petition by Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM) sought
quashing of the commission's order of September 18 and prayed
that Modi and six others - two ministers, three officials of
the Chief Minister's Office (CMO) and a police officer - be
called for cross examination with regard to the riots that
killed over 1,000 people.
The matter is scheduled for hearing in the court of
Justice K S Jhaveri tomorrow.
The two-member panel, probing the riots triggered by
the burning of Sabarmati Express, had disposed of a JSM
application seeking summoning of Modi and others, saying they
did not find justification in cross-examining them for the
purpose stated by the NGO.
The commission had further said in the order that
allegations made in JSM's application were vague and based on
wrong or unwarranted assumptions.
It, however, had directed three CMO officials to file
affidavits giving details of their telephonic conversation
with some of the ministers and riot accused after the train
burning on February 27, 2002.
PTI