Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Pravin Togadia, who was summoned by the Special Investigation Team for questioning in a 2002 Gujarat riot case, failed to appear on Monday before the Supreme Court-constituted agency in Ahmedabad.
Togadia, one of the 63 persons named in the complaint by Zakia Jaffery, wife of slain Congress MP Ehsan Jaffery, was asked to remain present before the SIT on Monday. Meanwhile, sources in the VHP said the 53-year-old leader, a cancer surgeon, was out of Gujarat. Sources in the SIT said Togadia has been summoned in connection with the complaint of Zakia, whose husband was among 69 killed in the Gulburg Society riots on February 28, 2002, a day after the torching of the Sabarmati Express.
She has alleged Chief Minister Narendra Modi and 62 others, including his cabinet colleagues, police officials and senior bureaucrats, aided and abetted the post-Godhra
