Raising concerns over the security of the witnesses and holding of fair trial in the post-Godhra riot cases if they are heard in Gujarat, Congress today refused to comment on the Supreme Court order directing setting up of fast track courts in the state.
We have no comments on the Supreme Court order. But the concerns of the human rights commissions and others about the threat perception of the witnesses still persists," AICC media department chief M Veerappa Moily told PTI. Moily said, "this is all the more important in view of the apex court order the other day in which the SIT has been asked to probe the role of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, his cabinet colleagues, and some officers in the riots".
Hitting out at the Gujarat chief minister, Moily said, "Modi is arrogant and shameless for what happened post-Godhra. He could not control the massacres even in Ahmedabad and Gandhi Nagar what to talk of other places in the state."
"How can we say that the witnesses and the victims will not be pressurised. He (Modi) will do everything to circumvent evidence," the senior Congress leader alleged.
