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POTA and Godhra Case
January 5, 2004 | Comments Off on POTA and Godhra Case
The Sunday Express reports that the team investigating the Godhra fire of late February 2002, that preceded the massacre of Muslims in Gujarat, told the special POTA court that it had named the wrong person as an accused. The investigation team moved the court to change the name of the accused. The court, however, rejected this application:
The SIT application said Rajesh Darji had, in his first statement, mentioned he had seen Harun Abdul Hamid Dav carrying a kerosene can at the scene of offence.
Later, after Dav submitted a certificate from Panvel Municipal Hospital, Mumbai, stating he had been admitted there from February 23-28, 2002, SIT sought Darji’s clarification. It was only on October 17, 2003, that Darji became available for identifying the person. He was shown Harun Abdul Hamid Dav’s photograph but he couldn’t identify him.
SIT officials said the witness then named Harun Abdul ‘Majit’ Dav — an auto driver — as the person he had seen.
For more news on POTA, read the posts from January 1 and December 19.
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