Human Resource Minister Kapil Sibal on Wednesday said that he felt sorry for Gujarat riot victims who have been waiting for justice for the last nine years. He was commenting on the Gujarat high court issuing a contempt notice to Chief Minister Narendra Modi for its failure to provide compensation to the victim's families.
"When it comes to Gujarat, each matter goes right up to the Supreme court. People are fighting in the courts to get their FIRs registered, they are fighting to get copies of the orders passed by the various courts," he told journalists in New Delhi on Wednesday.
When asked to comment about his observations, Sibal said, "I am very pained that the progress of the cases (of Gujarat riots), which were initiated way back in 2002, is very slow as nine years have passed. We want to ask how long should people wait? These cases should be tried on day-to-day basis so that people can get justice on time," the minister said.
"After nine years, we are still discussing whether these cases should go to the CBI or not, or whether their trial should be conducted in Mumbai or Gujarat. We should consider why such cases are not treated as urgent as this is a question of the life of somebody's daughter, mother, brother and father," he said.
