"I do not agree with the judgment," Sarabhai told PTI.
In a huge relief to Narendra Modi ahead of the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, the Metropolitan Magistrate B J Ganatra here yesterday accepted the SIT's closure report giving clean chit to him in the 2002 Gujarat riots while rejecting the protest petition, the only lawsuit accusing the BJP's prime ministerial nominee of complicity in the riots.
Mukul Sinha, the convener of Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM), a civil society organisation fighting for the riots and encounter victims in the state, said that there was strong evidence against Modi, which points towards criminal negligence, if not direct involvement in the riots.
"There is sufficient evidence which exposes Modi's complicity and criminal negligence on his part, if not his direct involvement," Sinha told PTI.
He said that the case should have been probed independently by any other agency, instead of the SIT.
Stating that the clean chit does not absolve Modi of the charges levelled against him, Sinha said the magistrate was completely wrong not looking at the evidences on record.