AHMEDABAD:
Three civil suits, seeking damages mounting to over Rs 22 crore, were filed at
a Himmatnagar court on Friday by kin of two British citizens and another
survivor of an incident that took place while they were returning to Ahmedabad
from Jaipur on February 28, 2002.
The suits pertain to an incident that took
place at Prantij on the Ahmedabad-Himmatnagar highway when a mob torched a Tata
Sumo in which the two British-Indian Muslims — Shahid Siddique Dawood and Shakil
Abdul Dawood — were travelling.
Shahid and Shakil died in the attack while
Shahid’s nephew Imran Mohammad was injured but somehow managed to escape. It
may be mentioned that the then British consul general Ian Reeds also visited
the site on March 8, 2002, on learning about the gruesome incident.
The mob had asked the Britons to identify
themselves. Eye-witnesses said they were killed despite identifying themselves
as British nationals. On Friday, Dawoods’ wives Shirin and Shamima, along with
Imran, filed three civil suits at the civil court in Himmatnagar seeking
damages worth Rs 9.75 crore, Rs 8.62 crore and Rs 4 crore, respectively.
The applicants have named Chief Minister
Narendra Modi, the then home minister Gordhan Zadaphia, then DGP K Chakravarthi,
and then home secretary Ashok Narain along with 10 others as respondents.
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