New Delhi:
The Supreme Court has asked the Gujarat Special Investigative Team (SIT) to investigate Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's role in the Godhra riots.
The apex court has asked for a probe into a complaint filed by a Gujarat riot victim against Modi and various other ministers, MLAs, VHP leaders, DGP of Gujarat and senior police officials.
The riot victim moved Supreme Court after the Gujarat High Court rejected her plea for registering an FIR against Modi and his colleagues for their role in provoking communal violence after the Godhra train burning.
The apex court had, on March 26, 2008, constituted the SIT that besides former CBI director R K Raghavan, has former DG of UP Police C D Satpathy and three IPS offices from Gujarat Geeta Johri, Shivanand Jha and Ashish Bhatia as the members.
Nearly a year after it was set up by the Supreme Court, the high-powered SIT submitted its report before the apex court.
During its probe, the SIT recorded the statement of former DGP P C Pandey who was the Commissioner of Police in Ahmedabad during the riots in 2002.
Earlier in an interview to NDTV, Modi firmly sidestepped the question of whether he would apologise for the Gujarat riots.