(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) The legal department of the Anandi Patel administration has rejected the request made by the SIT through a letter to appeal in the Supreme Court against the July 30 HC order.
AS EXPECTED the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Gujarat has denied sanction to the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team’s (SIT) to challenge the Gujarat High Court (HC) order granting bail to former BJP minister Maya Kodnani (60) who has been sentenced to 28-year imprisonment in a communal riots case.
The legal department of the Anandi Patel administration has rejected the request made by the SIT through a letter to appeal in the Supreme Court against the July 30 HC order granting bail to her on health grounds.
The Special Investigation Team which inquired into Ahmedabad’s infamous Naroda Patia (Kodnani’s assembly constituency) case in which 97 Muslims were killed in 2002 was just awaiting sanction from the state government to appeal in the apex court. The probe team had written to the legal department after the HC dismissed its plea to stay the bail order. Sources said the legal department told the Special Investigation Team not to move the SC after consulting top-drawer legal eagles who went through all documents and gave their opinion.
The Special Investigation Team’ had in its letter to the legal and home departments pointed out that the crime for which Kodnani was convicted was heinous in nature and hence it needed to appeal against the HC order.
Kodnani who had been undergoing treatment at a state-run hospital in Ahmedabad was discharged on August 9.
The ailing BJP politician who was a three-time legislator during the 2002 communal clashes has been suffering from depression tuberculosis and a heart ailment often triggering a suicidal tendency.
Kodnani who is close to Bharatiya Janata Party leader and fellow Sindhi L K Advani was made Minister of State for Women and Child Development in the Narendra Modi cabinet in 2007 and had resigned after she was arrested in March 2009.
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