09 April,2009 04:04 PM IST | | PTI
Maya Kodnani, former minister in the Narendra Modi government and an accused in 2002 riot cases, was on Thursday sent to judicial custody after a local court rejected the application of Special Investigation Team (SIT) for extending police remand.
Kodnani, who is accused in the Naroda Gam and Naroda Patiya case in which over 106 people were killed during the post-Godhra riots, was produced in the court after her police custody ended today.
Public prosecutor VP Atre, appearing on behalf of the Supreme Court appointed SIT that is probing some of the 2002 riot cases, submitted before the metropolitan magistrate GM Patel, that Kodnani being a politician was not cooperating with the investigation and not answering questions properly.
Atre contented that since she was given seven days police remand in the Naroda Gam case, she should also be given as many days police custody in the Naroda Patiya case for interrogation.
The court, however, rejected the application of the prosecution saying that they were seeking further remand in the case on same grounds on which previous remand was granted.
It said that adequate time was given to the SIT for interrogating Kodnani in the Naroda Patiya case and sent the former minister to judicial custody.
