Court nixes riot survivors' plea to arraign cops
(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) The petitioners wanted the court to pull up the then Ahmedabad police commissioner P C Pandey joint commissioner of police M K Tandon assistant commissioner of police P B Gondia and assistant police commissioner S S Chudasama.
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Ahmedabad: Four former police officers of Ahmedabad who are believed to have looked the other way when 69 Muslims were killed by rioters in the Gulberg residential colony in the city in 2002 will not be summoned to court for answering criminal charges against them.
A special court conducting the trial in the Gulberg massacre has rejected the survivors’ plea that the four be arraigned for alleged negligence in duty on the fateful day of February 28 a day after communal riots broke out in Gujarat.
The petitioners wanted the court to pull up the then Ahmedabad police commissioner P C Pandey joint commissioner of police M K Tandon assistant commissioner of police P B Gondia and assistant police commissioner S S Chudasama. According to the petitioners’ lawyer these officers did not react in the nick of time to stop the rampaging mob which played havoc in the colony killing 69 residents including formrer Congress MP Ehsan Jafri.
The Supreme Court-appointed special investigation team had earlier submitted that the plea should be thrown out as its inquiry panel had found no material evidence against the four.
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