AHMEDABAD : The complaint by Zakia Jafri against chief minister Narendra Modi and others implicating them in the 2002 riots is "a fiction", the Supreme Court-appointed special investigation team ( SIT ) claimed before the court on Wednesday.

Responding to Zakia's protest petition against SIT's clean chit to Modi and others for hatching 'larger conspiracy' after the Godhra carnage, SIT's counsel R S Jamwar claimed that the complaint filed in June 2006 is "nothing but fiction created by three-four persons".

" Zakia Jafri has no knowledge at all regarding this case… She is not even an eyewitness to the Gulbarg Society incident," the SIT submitted. Defending its closure report, the probe agency claimed that in three documents - the FIR of the Gulbarg massacre, Zakia's statement before the SIT and her testimony before the SIT court - nowhere has she revealed facts mentioned in her protest petition.

"This complaint (against Modi) is based on hearsay evidence and that is not admissible according to the law," the counsel said. "She falsely named witnesses like Rahul Sharma and Satish Verma, whereas they are her witnesses. This mistake establishes the credentials of Zakia's complaint," he added.

Accusing social activist Teesta Setalvad of leading the chorus against Modi, it was submitted that they created the fiction against the CM and the state.

The SIT also stated that material from former cop R B Sreekumar's affidavits is not admissible evidence.

Rubbishing the charge of "larger conspiracy" against Modi and others, the SIT argued that SIT court has not ordered further probe and accepted SIT probe as complete one. Besides, the complainant also did not seek to arraign Modi as accused in cases like Gulbarg Society or Naroda Patia, though they demanded implication of M K Tandon and P B Gondia.

Besides questioning additional evidence placed before court by Zakia, advocate Jamwar claimed that the complainant was wrong when there is evidence showing that one of the nine officials said to have participated in the meeting at the CM's residence on the evening of February 27, 2002, was actually in the UK.

The hearing will continue on Thursday.

