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2011 Supreme(SC) 891

Jakia Nasim Ahesan – Appellant
Versus
State of Gujarat – Respondent


ORDER

1. Leave granted.

2. This appeal by special leave, arises out of the judgment dated 2nd November, 2007, delivered by the High Court of Gujarat at Ahmedabad in Special Criminal Application No. 421 of 2007, dismissing the writ petition preferred by one of the hapless victims of the abominable and woeful events which took place in the State of Gujarat between February, 2002 and May, 2002 after the abhorrent Godhra incident on 27th February, 2002. By the said petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India read with Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short “the Code”), the appellant had sought for a direction to the Director General of Police, State of Gujarat, to register her private complaint dated 8th June, 2006 as a First Information Report and direct investigation therein by an independent agency. By the impugned judgment, the High Court has come to the conclusion that since a remedy under Section 190 read with Section 200 of the Code was available to the appellant, the writ petition was not tenable. The writ petition was accordingly dismissed by the High Court with the observation that if the appellant had got certain additional material again



















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