Court refuses to order panel to summon Modi

The Supreme Court refused to admit a petition seeking a direction to the Justice G T Nanavati Commission to summon Chief Minister Narendra Modi for his alleged role in the 2002 Gujarat riots,saying it cant interfere with the panels work

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to admit a petition seeking a direction to the Justice G T Nanavati Commission to summon Chief Minister Narendra Modi for his alleged role in the 2002 Gujarat riots,saying it cant interfere with the panels work.

A bench of Justices D K Jain and A K Dave told NGO Jan Sangarsh Manch,which had filed the petition,and Zakia Jafri,the widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri who was killed during the carnage,that the Supreme Court had already transferred the riots cases to a magistrate court in Ahmedabad.

Zakia had accused 64 senior politicians,including Modi,bureaucrats and police officers of committing crimes,including murder,during the riots and pleaded with the SC to order an independent probe into why the administration had not helped the victims and contained the carnage.

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In September 2011,a special bench of the court ended monitoring of the riots cases and directed the SIT it had constituted to file a report on its probe in the Ahmedabad court.

This petition has become infructuous now, the bench told the NGO and Zakia on Monday. Whatever remedy you have,we have never stopped you. But here you know our problem,we cannot give any directions to the commission. How can we start monitoring the working of the commission….