Ahmedabad, March 3
A local court today rejected a plea by Zakia Jaffery, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jaffrey, killed in the 2002 Gujarat riots, for making public the SIT report on the riots. Metropolitan magistrate MM Bhatt, while rejecting the plea, said the Special Investigation Team (SIT) is yet to submit material related to the report. As per the Supreme Court order, after the SIT submits its full report on the complaint of Zakia, conclusion was to be drawn by the metropolitan court.

Since the investigation team has not yet submitted the full report, no conclusion can be drawn at this stage. Hence, no action is required on the report now, the court said.

The court had earlier directed the SIT to submit its full report by March 15.

The apex court, in a September 2011 order, had directed the SIT to file its final report before the magistrate court and said that if the magistrate decides to close the case, he has to provide the full SIT report to the complainant and hear her before closing it.

Last month, the SIT had submitted its final report in a sealed cover on a complaint by Zakia demanding that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and other top politicians, police officers and bureaucrats should be made accused for the 2002 riots cases.

Earlier, SIT consul RS Jamaur had opposed Zakia's plea saying that they have not submitted a complete report in the court yet.

He had argued that the court would first go through the report and decide as to what to do with it. — PTI