New Delhi: In what could be the biggest relief for the Gujarat chief Minister Narnedra Modi, sources have told CNN-IBN that the Supreme Court-monitored Special Investigation Team (SIT) is likely to give a clean chit to the beleaguered chief minister in the post-Godhra riot cases.
Sources confirm that the SIT has found no direct evidence of Modi's role in willingly allowing post-Godhra riots. SIT had submitted its status report to the Supreme Court last week.
Zakia Jafri, wife of former Congress MP Ehsaan Jafri, had alleged that Modi had deliberately allowed the rioters to go on a rampage in 2002.
Ehsaan Jafri was killed by the rioters in Gulbarg society after which the Supreme Court had asked the SIT to investigate Zakia's complaint in April last year.
Modi was then summoned by SIT and grilled for about nine hours in March 2010.
Meanwhile, Communist Party of India-Marxist leader Brinda Karat called the leak of SIT report a shocking incident.
"It is very shocking that from Supreme Court and SIT there is a leakage of this kind. The report was given in a sealed cover by the SIT to the Supreme Court. I believe this is an effort to create an opinion that Narendra Modi is innocent, as far as victims are concerned they certainly see his role. The issue is that how was the report leaked," said Brinda outside Parliament House in New Delhi on Friday.
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