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1. There is a clear bias towards Mr. Modi in all of the rulings we have seen thus far by the Indian Judicial System. As citizens bestowed with the right to life, freedom and movement and peaceful co-existance ( Ref Funmdamental Rights (Art 19,20…) ) this is a shocking negligence of the Justice. Zakia Jaffery loosing the plea in Dec 2013 is a travesty of justice. SIT report, which found no evidence against the Chief Minister and several other functionaries of the State government named by her in her husband’s killing lacks all civil virtues and is condemnible.

   SIT Chairman RK Raghavan said in 2010: “As many as 32 allegations were probed into during this preliminary inquiry. These related to several acts of omission and commission by the state government and its functionaries, including the chief minister. A few of these alone were in fact substantiated.” He goes on to add, “the substantiated allegations did not throw up material that would justify further action under the law”

   This itself is a shocking conclusion. How much more violation of public duty will it take for something to be deemed sufficient “justification” for further investigation or penal action in India? Both through testimonies of victims, human rights groups, independent media reports and now the SIT’s own findings, it is clear that, in many cases, riots were either allowed to happen or directly abetted. It is also clear that after the riots were controlled, both the courts and the police were either manipulated or subverted; guilty officers were rewarded, upright officers were penalised or cut to size; official records were destroyed. As chief minister, Narendra Modi presided over this terrible implosion of a just and fair society. By virtue of also being the Cabinet minister for home, the entire law and order machinery — both police and intelligence — were directly under him. How much more culpability does an elected representative of India, inducted into office on Constitutional oath, have to display before further investigation and action is warranted against him? As chief minister, he did not have to physically patrol streets with mobs to be held culpable. He only needed to look away or send a tacit signal for utter mayhem to take over. That itself would have been crime enough. But from the SIT’s findings, Modi clearly did more than that.

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