Settling scores with political opponents through arrests and raids has been routine under the present political dispensation; but astoundingly, the Supreme Court has abetted the settling of scores this time.
Twenty years after an estimated 300 incidents racked Gujarat, Zakia Jafri's case was again heard before the Supreme Court on June 24. However, this time there were consequences leading to the arrest of Teesta Setalvad.
The Supreme Court, while upholding the clean chit given by an SIT to then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and 63 others in the 2002 riots cases, has noted the statement of TV anchor Sudhir Chaudhary about his purported interview with Modi
The court dismissed the plea of the wife of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri alleging that the SIT did not examine all the material in relation to the violence.