Justice H N Devani of the Gujarat High Court has refused to conduct the hearing on the petition of former BJP legislator Kalu Maliwad demanding that the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) refrain from probing the role of Chief Minister Narendra Modi and 62 others in the 2002 Gulberg Society massacre case.
Maliwad’s counsel S B Vakil said, Justice H N Devani called the matter ‘Not before me’, adding that it will now be assigned to some other judge of the High Court.
Pleadings in the matter are over and it has now reached the hearing stage.
Zakia Jafri, the wife of former slain Congress MP, Ehsan Jafri, had demanded for a probe into the role of 63 people in connection with the massacre, before the SC.
The apex court had ordered the SIT to probe the role of the 63 accused. Ehsan Jafri was killed at his residence in Gulberg Society along with 39 others, on February 28, 2002.
Maliwad has raised certain legal issues in his petition to refrain the SIT from proceeding against the 63 people.
Maliwad is one of the 63 people against whom Zakia Jaffri has demanded a probe.
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