Infructuous, says Supreme Court!

Closes proceedings related to Gujarat riots. 

The top court closed all proceedings related to the 2002 Gujarat riots to which it had appointed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) for conducting investigation and prosecution in nine major cases. Noting that the trial in eight out of nine cases was over and final arguments were going on in trial court in Naroda Gaon, the bench of CJI UU Lalit, SR Bhat and JB Pardiwala disposed the cases as infructuous.

The Supreme Court also ordered closure of all the contempt proceedings initiated by Mohammad Aslam Bhure (now passed away) against the UP government officials and leaders like Uma Bharti, Murali Manohar Joshi, Sadhvi Rithambara, Vinay Katiyar and others.

Since the top court has felt that the cases were infructuous, I have a few queries :-

* Why did a host of cases come up post-Godhra?

* And that, too, only regarding the Gujarat riots?

* Were the lives of the Hindu kar sevaks - lost in the fire in the train at Godhra - of no value?

* Why hasn't it been ascertained, to this date, as to who caused the fire and the motive behind the carnage?

* Doesn't it seem to be biased towards the Muslim community? And we call ourselves secular!

* Can't help but go by the argument that it was a conspiracy to ensure that Narendra Modi's political career should go no further. And the exactly opposite thing happened thanks to this country's lucky stars.

* Why are certain people wary of legal proceedings against Teesta Setalvad? She, definitely, needs to answer for her devious actions.

My take

On the one hand we complain about pendency of cases in courts, that the judiciary is overloaded and therefore, a case made out for appointing more judges. I'm sure if we were to sift through this huge number of pending cases, there would be quite a lot of infructuous ones!

Tailpiece.

Got up around 6, the chores and Pat's message around a quarter to 8, that they'd landed at Kochi. Lekha and I were ready and we went to the temple. Carried out the Wednesday aarathi of the house.

Got the clearance for the special darshan from Vimal Raj, the PRO of Devaswom. He warmed up to me as he was my grandfather's follower in the Literacy Movement. The drama, created by some of these guys is unnecessary and unwanted! After the clearance from the PRO, the manager wanted to give me a special darshan, along with my friends and I'd to tell him that I never approach anyone for a special darshan as I liked being in queue and wait for my rightful turn.   

Paritosh Nath and Joyce could have a nice 'darshan' of the good Lord. We were glad that they were happy. They took us out to lunch at Devaraagam. By the time we wound up, it was a half past 3 and the rain had begun. The drive to Kochi was abandoned. The Naths proceeded to Kochi to attend the commissioning ceremony of INS Vikrant, by the Prime Minister, the day after. 

It was a quiet evening, thereafter.