‘Will CM, authorities be by no means held accountable even when….’ Congress on 2002 Gujarat riots verdict
By PTI
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Saturday requested if a chief minister or a state authorities will ever be held accountable even when the state is thrown right into a circle of pre-meditated violence and riots, a day after the Supreme Court upheld an SIT clear chit to then Gujarat CM Narendra Modi within the 2002 riots case.
The celebration mentioned the Supreme Court verdicts shouldn’t be politicised however requested if it is just the collector or cops who’re liable for any riot of their jurisdictions and never their political masters. “Will Chief Minister, Cabinet & State Govt be never held accountable, even if the State is thrown into a circle of pre-meditated violence and riots?” requested Congress normal secretary Randeep Surjewala.
His remarks by a sequence of tweets got here a day after the Supreme Court Friday upheld the Special Investigation Team’s clear chit to Modi and 63 others within the 2002 communal riots within the state. “Is responsibility only of the Collector and deputy commissioner of Police and not of political executive? What then is the Constitutional and moral responsibility of Chief minister and the state government?” Surjewala requested.
The regulation in “New India” -:
Failure to cease or inaction to behave in opposition to these committing violence isn’t actionable floor in opposition to State Govt.
To act upon Intelligence inputs is immaterial.
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— Randeep Singh Surjewala (@rssurjewala) June 25, 2022
The regulation on this “New India” is, he mentioned, “Failure to stop or inaction to act against those committing violence is not actionable ground against State Government. To act upon Intelligence inputs is immaterial. Was Supreme Court right then in saying – ‘As Rome burnt, Nero fiddled’ or is it right now? Is failure or inaction no longer actionable in law? Let the nation think.”
Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi mentioned, “The decisions of the Supreme Court should never be politicised.” He mentioned that the Supreme Court upheld the SIT’s clear chit, in response to which there was no conspiracy and the violence was a pure response.
“One should not forget many convicts of murder in Gujarat riots, on whom the guilt was proved. The Supreme Court denies conspiracy or statement by the Prime Minister in the absence of certain police officers. It should simply be respected as an order of the Supreme Court,” he mentioned.
The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the SIT’s clear chit to the then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and 63 others within the 2002 communal riots within the state, saying there isn’t any tittle of fabric to indicate the violence after the Godhra prepare carnage was pre-planned” owing to the criminal conspiracy allegedly hatched at the “highest degree” within the state.
Observing that inaction or failure of some officers of 1 part of the administration can’t be the idea to readily infer a pre-planned felony conspiracy by the authorities or to time period it as a state-sponsored crime in opposition to the minority neighborhood, the court docket dismissed a plea by slain Congress chief Ehsan Jafri’s spouse Zakia, terming it as “devoid of deserves”.
Bringing the curtains down on the bid to reopen the probe into the 2002 riots, a bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar additionally spoke of the devious stratagem to maintain the pot boiling, clearly, for ulterior design, and mentioned disgruntled officers of the Gujarat authorities must be within the dock and proceeded with in accordance with regulation for making a sensation by making false revelations.
Alleging a bigger conspiracy behind the mass violence in opposition to Muslims, Zakia had challenged the Gujarat High Court’s October 5, 2017 order rejecting her petition in opposition to the discovering of the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT).
