By TCN News,
Ahmedabad: Arguments in the Zakia Jafri Protest Petition against Narendra Modi and 59 Others continued for the fifth day on Thursday with counsel for Jafri, Mihir Desai highlighting the deliberate lacunae by the Special Investigating Team in probing the illegal post mortems that were held in wide public view at the Godhra railway yard as part of the “high-level çonspiracy masterminded Narendra Modi with the full connivance of then health minister Ashok Bhatt, now deceased, Gordhan Zadaphiya and others, with the active participation of Jaideep Patel and other VHP men who were deliberately galvanized to use the fact and sight of the tragically burnt corpses to build up and spill venom against innocent members of the Muslim minority.”
Desai argued that the question which the SIT has simply not bothered to ask is, under whose orders, the post- mortem was being conducted in the Railway Yard Itself without any facility and equipments and also by doctors who were not trained to do Post Mortem? The motive behind this was clear, he argued.
A day earlier, giving a comprehensive overview of arguments for “Conspiracy to commit mass murder” against Narendra Modi and 59 Others, counsel for Zakia Ahsan Jafri has argued in court hat the issue before the Court is whether the events after the Godhra carnage that included mass reprisal attacks where thousands of innocents members of the minority were massacred, raped and killed were “spontenous,” as the state government has argued, which could not have been anticipated, prevented or controlled; or was it part of the larger conspiracy, where entire state machinery “aided and abated the events.”
The court is hearing Jafri’s petition against closure report of Special Investigation Team which gave a clean chit to Modi and others in the face of the charge of complicity in the riots as levelled by Jafri in her complaint in 2008 before the Supreme Court.