Why SIT’s reports are SO POOR: it is made up almost entirely of GUJARAT POLICE

I've been extremely puzzled by the FAKE and SHODDY investigations in the Modi case/s. Everyone tells me vigorously that the "Supreme Court" has exonerated Modi.

As far as I'm aware, the Supreme Court is a constitutional court and a court of procedural appeal. The ONLY place where murder/rioting can be tried in court is in district sessions and similar courts, with appeal in the High Court. So the idea of the Supreme Court "absolving" Modi does not arise.

All that the Supreme Court can do, in the face of a petition that questions process or procedure, is to issue direction for a further investigation and (in extreme cases) a re-trial.

[Now, I’m speaking from really old and rusty memory of these legal matters, so I may be wrong. If so, please provide me with the SPECIFIC case/s of murder/rioting that the Supreme Court is directly dealing with. I don’t think there is any such thing.]

Hence it is RIDICULOUS to suggest that the Supreme Court has "absolved" Modi.

All we can say is that it seems that the GUJARAT courts have continuously failed to deliver justice. They seem to be all beholden to Modi (or have been infiltrated by VHP/BJP), so they seem keen to accept false testimony, allow the guilty to escape, and punish the innocent. Judgements of Gujarat courts are in no way judgements of the Supreme Court.

(Now, I may be wrong in this assessment, so please correct me if you have better data. This is my tentative conclusion. I still have a lot to read and understand.)

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Now coming to the Special Investigation Team. I read somewhere (can't readily recollect where) that two members of the SIT were later found to have been accused in crimes, and removed from the SIT. Since the last two weeks I've been keen to identify the actual constitution of the SIT, but there doesn't seem to be any wikipedia entry on this topic.

However, here's a useful starting point:

The SIT had been set up by the apex court on 26 March 2008. Nine major riot cases, including the Godhra train carnage, was handed over to it for re-investigation. Though the court picked retired CBI director RK Raghavan, a Tamil Nadu cadre officer, as chairman, the three crucial members of the probe team — IGs Ashish Bhatia, Geeta Johri and Shivanand Jha — were all from the Gujarat police. It was these three officers who were entrusted with the direct supervision of the investigations. The entire supporting team of policemen was also picked from the Gujarat police. But the most shocking appointment to the SITwas Noel Parmar, a deputy SP with the Gujarat police. 

Parmar was the chief investigating officer of the Godhra carnage. It was he who had constructed the premeditated conspiracy theory which was supposedly under independent review by the SIT. When the SIT was formed, Parmar was serving his fourth post-retirement extension given by the Gujarat police. How could a probe officer be inducted into the SIT to review his own investigation, petitioners protested. Under pressure, the SIT reluctantly dropped him from the probe team. But, in another malicious move, it inducted Parmar’s aide Ramesh Patel instead. The logic? Patel was familiar with the case so his presence would help the investigators.

The idea behind the SIT was to have an independent review of the Gujarat police investigation by neutral officers. That purpose was defeated when the probe in effect was handed back to the Gujarat police, under the cloak of the SIT.

Raghavan visited Gujarat only for three days in a month. For all practical purposes, the investigation was carried out by the Gujarat police. In less than 10 months, IGP Jha claimed he had concluded his scrutiny of the Godhra carnage investigation carried out by the Gujarat state police. He claimed to have re-examined all the crucial police witnesses. But dismayingly, when Murli Mulchandani and Kakul Pathak were examined by the SIT, they were not quizzed about their damning confessions made before this TEHELKA reporter. Even the basic question of whether they were caught on camera by TEHELKA was not put before them.

Even more dismayingly, though this reporter’s statement was recorded by the SIT, his testimony — about Pathak and Mulchandani admitting on camera that they had fudged their statements — and the supporting sting footage were not produced before the court. When you consider the fact that both testimony and evidence produced by this same reporter has been cited as an important piece of evidence by the SIT in three other riot cases — Naroda Gaon, Naroda Patiya and Gulberg Society — the inconsistency becomes even more glaring. Why did the SIT not want to nail Pathak and Mulchandani? Why did Jha accept the sanctity of the Gujarat police investigation in toto?

In a report submitted to the Supreme Court on 11 February 2009, Raghavan said the SIT had “thoroughly reviewed” the Gujarat police investigation and found it to be “on correct lines”. He said IGP Shivanand Jha had re-examined all the key police witnesses. Satisfied, Raghavan said, the SIT had accepted the Gujarat police investigation and therefore not filed any additional chargesheet. [Source]

So we see that 3/4th of the SIT comprised Gujarat cadre IPS officers.

And its ENTIRE SUPPORTING TEAM CAME FROM GUJARAT.

Therefore 99 per cent of the "investigative team" came from Gujarat – particularly since Raghavan virtually never visited Gujarat to investigate.

Since the entire Gujarat government machinery has been SEVERELY COMPROMISED by Modi, this explains the EXTREMELY POOR quality of work of the SIT.

SIT was doing Modi's bidding. How could they POSSIBLY allow justice to prevail?

And the judges are planted by Modi.

And yet people keep telling me that the "Supreme Court" has absolved Modi!