A local court on Saturday rejected a plea by Zakia Jafri for making public the Special Investigation Team (SIT) report on the 2002 riots, stating that the SIT had not yet submitted all the related material.
Zakia, the widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri killed in 2002 riots, had made a plea to release the Special Investigation Team report submitted in a sealed cover.
As per the Supreme Court order, it is only after the SIT submitted its full report on the riots that the metropolitan court could draw any conclusion, the court said.
Given that the investigation team has not yet submitted the full report, no conclusion can be drawn at this stage and thus no action is required on the report now, the court said.
The top court, in a September 2011 order, had directed the SIT to file its final report before the magistrate court and had said that if the magistrate decides to close the case, he has to provide full SIT report to the complainant and hear her before closing it.