Gujarat riots proof falsification case: Court rejects former DGP Sreekumar’s discharge petition

Express News Service

AHMEDABAD: A periods courtroom in Ahmedabad Monday rejected an utility by former DGP R B Sreekumar looking for discharge in a case registered in opposition to him for fabricating proof of a conspiracy behind the 2002 riots so as to falsely implicate individuals together with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Sreekumar requested discharge on the grounds that he had been falsely accused and had nothing to do with Zakia Jafri’s attraction in opposition to the SIT’s closure report. Despite the truth that nobody was named within the Supreme Court determination, the FIR in opposition to him and others was filed in haste.

On Monday, The periods Court whereas rejecting Sreekumar’s discharge utility noticed that the “Prosecution in its case has submitted enough evidence which primarily built the case against the applicant, primarily there is enough evidence to run a trial against the applicant, the prosecution has submitted an audio tape of the conversation between the applicant and another person the voice of application has been confirmed by Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) which give sufficient reason to the court to reject application discharge application,”

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Earlier, Sreekumar Claimed that the accusations in opposition to him have been supported by his affidavits offered to the Nanavati-Shah fee which was probing the 2002 Gujarat riots. They are unconvincing since he’s protected beneath Section 6 of the Commission of Inquiries Act. Furthermore, no required sentence beneath Section 197 of the CrPC has been imposed on him. Sreekumar additionally denied tutoring witnesses and forgery allegations in opposition to him. Additionally, he asserted that Setalvad was the goal of a grudge held by witness Raees Khan and that his accusatory assertion couldn’t be taken severely.

Special prosecutor Amit Patel Told TNIE that, “Ahmedabad sessions court on Monday rejected an R B Sreekumar’s application on the basis of the evidence provided by the Prosecution,”

On June 25, 2022, One day after Zakia Jafri’s attraction in opposition to the closure report submitted by the particular investigation staff (SIT) was rejected by the Supreme Court, town crime department filed an FIR charging Sreekumar, social activist Teesta Setalvad, and one other ex-IPS officer, Sanjiv Bhatt.

Sreekumar and Bhatt had charged the three for offences beneath IPC sections 120B (felony conspiracy), 468 (forgery), 471 (utilizing as real a cast doc or digital document), 194 (giving or fabricating false proof with intent to acquire conviction of capital offence), 211 (false cost of offence made with intent to injure) and 218 (public servant framing incorrect document or writing with intent to avoid wasting an individual from punishment or property from forfeiture). 

AHMEDABAD: A periods courtroom in Ahmedabad Monday rejected an utility by former DGP R B Sreekumar looking for discharge in a case registered in opposition to him for fabricating proof of a conspiracy behind the 2002 riots so as to falsely implicate individuals together with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Sreekumar requested discharge on the grounds that he had been falsely accused and had nothing to do with Zakia Jafri’s attraction in opposition to the SIT’s closure report. Despite the truth that nobody was named within the Supreme Court determination, the FIR in opposition to him and others was filed in haste.

On Monday, The periods Court whereas rejecting Sreekumar’s discharge utility noticed that the “Prosecution in its case has submitted enough evidence which primarily built the case against the applicant, primarily there is enough evidence to run a trial against the applicant, the prosecution has submitted an audio tape of the conversation between the applicant and another person the voice of application has been confirmed by Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) which give sufficient reason to the court to reject application discharge application,” googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-1687167573941-0’); );

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Earlier, Sreekumar Claimed that the accusations in opposition to him have been supported by his affidavits offered to the Nanavati-Shah fee which was probing the 2002 Gujarat riots. They are unconvincing since he’s protected beneath Section 6 of the Commission of Inquiries Act. Furthermore, no required sentence beneath Section 197 of the CrPC has been imposed on him. Sreekumar additionally denied tutoring witnesses and forgery allegations in opposition to him. Additionally, he asserted that Setalvad was the goal of a grudge held by witness Raees Khan and that his accusatory assertion couldn’t be taken severely.

Special prosecutor Amit Patel Told TNIE that, “Ahmedabad sessions court on Monday rejected an R B Sreekumar’s application on the basis of the evidence provided by the Prosecution,”

On June 25, 2022, One day after Zakia Jafri’s attraction in opposition to the closure report submitted by the particular investigation staff (SIT) was rejected by the Supreme Court, town crime department filed an FIR charging Sreekumar, social activist Teesta Setalvad, and one other ex-IPS officer, Sanjiv Bhatt.

Sreekumar and Bhatt had charged the three for offences beneath IPC sections 120B (felony conspiracy), 468 (forgery), 471 (utilizing as real a cast doc or digital document), 194 (giving or fabricating false proof with intent to acquire conviction of capital offence), 211 (false cost of offence made with intent to injure) and 218 (public servant framing incorrect document or writing with intent to avoid wasting an individual from punishment or property from forfeiture).