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Petition a Bible Isnt that going overboard?

POTENTIALLY ruffled Christian sentiments would be the least unhappy fallout of the head of the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team hailing a petition before it as its Bible. For that description confers veracity upon the Zakia version of the killings at the Gulbarg Society; and lends itself to the charge of pre-judging an issue which the SIT was merely judicially directed to probe, the apex court, correctly, retaining unto itself the right to pronounce judgment. This is in no way a bid to defend Narendra Modi: yet having previously taken the chief minister to task for the wanton carnage, this newspaper deems itself duty-bound to uphold the principle of impartial investigation, objects to probes creating an impression of an inquisition. Declining to do what is fashionable or populist has ever been a hallmark of The Statesman, hence it has no hesitation in questioning the SIT chiefs obvious playing to the gallery. It could be argued that RK Raghavan did display restraint, but was there any requirement for him to express satisfaction and claim that the …