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Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday appeared before the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) for questioning over the 2002 communal riots.
SIT has summoned Modi to depose in connection with a complaint of Zakia Jaffery, widow of former Congress MP Eshan Jaffery, who was killed in the riot at Gulburg Society here along with 69 others.
This will be for the first time that Modi has presented himself before any authority to explain his role in the riots.
Modis security and a bomb disposal squad reached the SIT office before him.
CNN-IBN learns that Modi is likely to be asked these questions by the SIT:
Did he hold a meeting of his top officials on February 27, the day of the Godhra riots and ask Gujarat police officers to go slow against rioters?
Did he instruct any of his ministers to sit in the police control room when the riots were taking place?
Did the Chief Ministers office get phone calls from former Jafri when Gulbarg Society was attacked?
R K Raghavan, the chief of the Supreme Court-appointed SIT, is not in Gandhinagar. A K Malhotra, the officer investigating the Gulburg Society case, is questioning Modi and they are the only persons present in the room during the deposition.
Gujarat government spokesperson Jai Narayan Vyas told CNN-IBN Modi has behaved like a responsible citizen by appearing before the SIT and accused the media of creating a hype that the Chief Minister had been summoned on March 21.
In New Delhi, Law Minister Veerappa Moily said it was "unfortunate" that a Chief Minister has "landed" himself in such a situation.
"It is most unfortunate that he (Modi) landed himself to that kind of a situation. It is not desirable but unfortunately it has happened," said Moily.
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday appeared before the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) for questioning over the 2002 communal riots.
SIT has summoned Modi to depose in connection with a complaint of Zakia Jaffery, widow of former Congress MP Eshan Jaffery, who was killed in the riot at Gulburg Society here along with 69 others.
This will be for the first time that Modi has presented himself before any authority to explain his role in the riots.
Modis security and a bomb disposal squad reached the SIT office before him.
CNN-IBN learns that Modi is likely to be asked these questions by the SIT:
Did he hold a meeting of his top officials on February 27, the day of the Godhra riots and ask Gujarat police officers to go slow against rioters?
Did he instruct any of his ministers to sit in the police control room when the riots were taking place?
Did the Chief Ministers office get phone calls from former Jafri when Gulbarg Society was attacked?
R K Raghavan, the chief of the Supreme Court-appointed SIT, is not in Gandhinagar. A K Malhotra, the officer investigating the Gulburg Society case, is questioning Modi and they are the only persons present in the room during the deposition.
Gujarat government spokesperson Jai Narayan Vyas told CNN-IBN Modi has behaved like a responsible citizen by appearing before the SIT and accused the media of creating a hype that the Chief Minister had been summoned on March 21.
In New Delhi, Law Minister Veerappa Moily said it was "unfortunate" that a Chief Minister has "landed" himself in such a situation.
"It is most unfortunate that he (Modi) landed himself to that kind of a situation. It is not desirable but unfortunately it has happened," said Moily.
