During the hearing, counsel for the petitioner, Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal claimed that the SIT did not examine all the material available and that its investigation showed bias. He argued that the State aided in propagating hate.
“The point here is that the dead bodies were flashed on the TV channels in that state, that obviously led to the anger….Material was circulated to push for economic boycott of Muslims. Mutilated pictures of Sabarmati Express, pamphlets of do-it-yourself brutalities were circulated. The material was given to the SIT, they never looked at it,” Sibal stated.
Sibal also said that the SIT itself should be investigated for rendering conclusions contrary to facts.
The SIT did not do ‘investigation’ but did a ‘collaborative exercise’ and its probe was fraught with omissions to protect conspirators.
Sibal said that there was evidence in the form of electronic records including call data records of senior police officials and mobs identifying houses of Muslims, all of which pointed towards conspiracy.
But the SIT ignored all of it and did not conduct any further investigation into the and the Magistrate and High Court too chose to overlook the same, he contended.
Source: Barandbench
