Ahmedabad: Supreme Court-appointed SIT, probing the 2002 Gujarat riots, on Wednesday claimed suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt was not a "witness" in the complaint against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, but a "manipulator".
"Sanjiv Bhatt was never a witness to any meeting held by Chief Minister, but he is fabricating everything...(he) is manipulating and has conspired to play media card in building pressure groups to influence not only amicus curae (in Zakia Jafri's petition) Raju Ramchandran, but even the Supreme Court," SIT lawyer RS Jamuar said.
Jamuar was arguing before Metropolitan Magistrate BJ Ganatra, who is hearing a protest petition by Jafri challenging the closure report of SIT giving clean chit to Modi and others with respect to the riots. Today, on the sixth day of his arguments, Jamuar submitted evidence to back up the Special Investigation Team's contention in the closure report that Bhatt was not a reliable witness.
Coming down heavily on Bhatt, Jamuar cited contents of some of the emails collected by the state government during the investigation of a criminal complaint against Bhatt. These emails included the ones allegedly sent by Bhatt to Nasir Chhipa, journalist Subhranshu, activist Teesta Setalvad, the then Leader of Opposition in Gujarat Assembly and Congress leader Shaktisinh Gohil and IPS officer Rahul Sharma (who had collected details of phone calls made during the 2002 riots)....
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