By IANS,
Gandhinagar: The Gujarat High Court Wednesday asked the advocate general to obtain details from a judicial commission probing the 2002 communal riots on the deposition of an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer who has blamed Chief Minister Narendra Modi for the carnage.
The court was hearing a petition seeking to know whether the Nanavaty-Mehta judicial enquiry commission was treating Gujarat cadre IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt as a witness or an informer.
A bench comprising Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya and Justice J.B. Pardiwala asked Advocate General Kamal Trivedi and government pleader P.K. Jani to obtain instructions from secretary of the probe panel on the status of Bhatt’s deposition before the commission.
The bench were hearing a petition filed by Jamiat-Ulama-i-Hind (JUH), which challenged the probe panel’s order passed June 21 to delete the cross-examination of Bhatt from records.
The case would next be heard July 8.