HC decision on daily hearing on Zakia’s plea on August 4

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Justice Sonia Gokani asked Tirmizi that what additional documents he wants to submit as the case pertains to revision of a lower court’s order and she will rely only the documents which are part of the court. Tirmizi replied his senior counsel wants to prepare a chart to brief the court about the facts of the case in a nutshell.

On July 24, Tirmizi had moved an application before the HC registrar seeking more time to submit additional documents. In the application, he had mentioned that due to a CBI raid on activist Teesta Setalvad, “it was a bit difficult for the lawyers to prepare a charts and other additional documents”.

Justice Gokani, during the brief arguments, asked Tirmizi about the details of the CBI raid on Setalvad. When the application was objected by the SIT lawyers, Tirmizi told the court that he didn’t want to press for the application. Following this, the court disposed of the application and adjourned the hearing till August 4.

SIT lawyer RS Jamuar requested the court to conduct the matter on a daily basis from August 4. The court replied it would consider on the next date.

Zakia Jafri, whose husband ex Congress MP Ahsan Jafri was among 69 persons killed in the Gulberg Society massacre during 2002 riots, moved this petition last year, challenging the order of a magisterial court that upheld the closure report filed by the SIT in 2012, giving a clean chit to Modi, who was the then chief minister, and 58 others.