By IANS,
New Delhi : Social activist Teesta Setalvad Friday said the truth has finally come out on the 2002 Gujarat riots as a senior police officer blamed Chief Minister Narendra Modi of direct complicity in the anti-Muslim carnage that left over 1,000 people dead.
“All I can say id that truth has finally comes out. Despite the very best efforts of a very vindictive government using money and muscle power, the truth has finally come out,” Setalvad, who has been campaigning against Modi, said reacting to the affidavit filed by Sanjiv Bhatt in the Supreme Court.
However, she said there were reservations that activists in Gujarat have against the Special Investigation Team that the Supreme Court set up to probe the riots cases.
“We have certain reservations of SIT in 2009. We continue to have reservations. But the fact that the SC is watching the case… the fact that we have independent amicus curiae… despite whatever the (Gujarat) government tried to do, the truth will come out,” she added.
Sanjiv Bhatt, a 1988 Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, has blamed Narendra Modi for the 2002 “communal carnage”, saying he wanted Muslims to be taught “a lesson” for the train burning at Godhra that left 59 Hindus dead.
Bhatt also said in an affidavit to the Supreme Court that the SIT set up by the apex court seemed uninterested in unravelling the larger conspiracy behind the 2002 violence that swept Gujarat.