The contenders

Any time any court has to pronounce an order that relates to the 2002 riots involving Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, it has brought up one question: is he off the hook?  Will it pave the way for his national ambitions and projection as BJP's Prime Minister candidate in 2014? It was no different on February 15 when the Ahmedabad magistrate who is trying the Gulbarg Society massacre case, ordered that the report of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) that probed the massacre should be given in full, along with 70,000 supporting documents, to the court by March 15.

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