The thrust of the Supreme Court's judgment – that Modi did his best to control the 2002 violence and that his failure to do so was not deliberate – goes against its own rationale for appointing an SIT to investigate and prosecute the mass crimes that had been committed on his watch.
How often are observations as strong as what we heard in this judgment made? The consequence was an activist's arrest in a city outside her normal place of residence.
The Supreme Court’s recent judgement in Zakia Jafri’s case does not deviate from precedents of criminal jurisprudence and follows established principles in this regard. No fault can be found with the court’s judgement, especially how well settled the law regarding investigation, closure reports and protest petitions is.
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