<p>Describing Modi’s examination as a “very big step forward”, SIT chief R K Raghavan told a television channel in Delhi that it could help the probe panel in “unravelling few of the mysterries in the matter”. <br /><br />He told another TV channel that it took 10 hours to grill Modi, as a lot of procedures had to be followed. “As he speaks, it has to be put into writing. Accurate reproduction of what he says has to be done, and it is then signed by him,” Raghavan, said adding the report on the case would be completed before the Supreme Court’s deadline of April 30. <br /><br />Raghavan indicated that Modi might be recalled for another round of questioning if any lacunae was found in the exmination procedure.<br /><br />Some of the riot victims and kin of former MP Ehsan Jafri, who was killed in the Gulburg Society riots — the case in which Modi was quizzed — had made an online appeal urging the CJI and Justice A M Ebrahim, former judge of Zimbabwe Supreme Court, not to share the stage with Modi at the first convocation of the Gujarat National Law University.<br /><br />At the function, Balakrishnan sat to the right of Modi, while Gujarat High Court Chief Justice S J Mukhopadhyay was seated to the left of the chief minister. During his address, Justice Ebrahim acknowledged Modi for his statement on Saturday after his questioning by the SIT that “no one was above the law.” Justice Ebrahim said he “very much agreed” with Modi’s statement.<br /></p>
<p>Describing Modi’s examination as a “very big step forward”, SIT chief R K Raghavan told a television channel in Delhi that it could help the probe panel in “unravelling few of the mysterries in the matter”. <br /><br />He told another TV channel that it took 10 hours to grill Modi, as a lot of procedures had to be followed. “As he speaks, it has to be put into writing. Accurate reproduction of what he says has to be done, and it is then signed by him,” Raghavan, said adding the report on the case would be completed before the Supreme Court’s deadline of April 30. <br /><br />Raghavan indicated that Modi might be recalled for another round of questioning if any lacunae was found in the exmination procedure.<br /><br />Some of the riot victims and kin of former MP Ehsan Jafri, who was killed in the Gulburg Society riots — the case in which Modi was quizzed — had made an online appeal urging the CJI and Justice A M Ebrahim, former judge of Zimbabwe Supreme Court, not to share the stage with Modi at the first convocation of the Gujarat National Law University.<br /><br />At the function, Balakrishnan sat to the right of Modi, while Gujarat High Court Chief Justice S J Mukhopadhyay was seated to the left of the chief minister. During his address, Justice Ebrahim acknowledged Modi for his statement on Saturday after his questioning by the SIT that “no one was above the law.” Justice Ebrahim said he “very much agreed” with Modi’s statement.<br /></p>
