Gujarat riots case: SC to hear plea of recalling its order

New Delhi, Mar 15 (PTI) The Supreme Court of India
Monday decided to consider an application seeking recall of
its order handing over to SIT a complaint relating to 2002
Gujarat riots in which Chief Minister Narendra Modi has been
named as one of the 63 accused.

The application in this regard was filed by the
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Kalubhai Maliwad who has also
been made an accused in the complaint filed by Zakia Jaffry,
wife of Congress leader Ehsaan Jafri who was killed in the
riots at the Gulbarga society in Ahmedabad, in India's western
state of Gujarat.
Modi was summoned by the Special Investigation Team
(SIT) on March 21 in connection with the probe of the case.
Meanwhile, a three judge bench headed by Justice D K
Jain asked the trial court in Ahmedabad to defer its hearing
in the Gulburga society case.
The order to this effect was passed in view of a
petition filed in Gujarat High Court seeking transfer of the
case to another trial court judge.
Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium and senior
advocate Harish Salve, who is assisting the court in the
matter as amicus curiae, informed the bench that Special
Public Prosecutor R K Shah has tended his resignation making
certain allegations against the presiding officer (Judge) and
the SIT. PTI RB
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