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The court of Metropolitan Magistrate BJ Ganatra will hear Zakia's petition on daily basis from April 24. "The petition seeks rejection in toto the SIT Closure Report filed in the same court on February 8, 2012 and requested filing of charge sheet against all the 59 accused, including Modi, named in Jafri's complaint filed on June 8, 2006 before the Supreme Court," said Zakia's counsel SM Vora.
The petition requested that the probe be assigned to an independent agency and not to the Special Investigation Team, headed by former CBI director RK Raghavan. "The petition says that the Gulberg Society massacre was a cold-blooded conspiracy to manipulate the post-Godhra riot incidents, and was planned and executed by Modi with his cabinet colleagues and other co-accused including VHP leaders," Vora said.
The 514-page petition was submitted before the court in three volumes of annexures and 10 CDs. "The petitioner argues that the SIT had adequate documents and statements to come to a conclusion against all the accused, however, it decided
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