Indian court acquits 69 of murder of Muslims in 2002
An Indian court has acquitted 69 Hindus, including a former minister from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, of...
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An Indian court has acquitted 69 Hindus, including a former minister from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, of...
An Indian court on Thursday acquitted 69 Hindus, including a former minister from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), of the murder of 11 Muslims during communal riots in the western state of Gujarat in 2002.
The thrust of the Supreme Court's judgment – that Modi did his best to control the 2002 violence and that his failure to do so was not deliberate – goes against its own rationale for appointing an SIT to investigate and prosecute the mass crimes that had been committed on his watch.
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal on behalf of Jafri assailed the probe team for 'ignoring' evidence while filing the closure report
All the evidence on a 'larger conspiracy' submitted to the SIT merited a thorough probe, the petitioners argue, yet a closure report was filed without proper investigation.