Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi had in his deposition before Special Investigation Team (SIT) in March, 2010, dismissed the allegations of criminal conspiracy and subversion of rule of law by Zakia Jaffery, wife of Congress leader Ehsan Jaffrey slain in 2002 riots, as "vexatious, false, frivolous".
Refuting all allegations of complicity in the post-Godhra riots, Modi had said he was doing his Constitutional duty and functioning lawfully like a Chief Minister.
He described the allegations that he was protecting the criminals and accused in riots cases as "frivolous" and said that in Gujarat, which has a history of communal riots, this was the first time that so many offenses were registered and as of now comparatively a large number of cases have led to conviction.
The Chief Minister had also denied presences of suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in the meeting called by him at his residence on night of February 27, 2002.
Modi was interrogated by A K Malhotra of Supreme Court- appointed SIT on March 28-29, 2010, for over nine hours at the agency's office in Gujarat capital Gandhinagar.
"As a Chief Minister, I have been performing my functions with utmost respect to the Constitution and rule of law. The meeting to take stock of the situation and review the law and order situation on February 27, 2002, with high-level officials of the state was my constitutional duty," Modi had said when asked to comment on allegations levelled against him in Zakia's complaint.
"On the contrary, for doing my constitutional duty to hold an emergency review meeting, the complainants are levelling wild allegations of criminal conspiracy and subversion of rule of law, which is nothing but, vexatious allegations having no basis," Modi had added.
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