A Bench comprising Justices AM Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and CT Ravikumar is hearing the matter.

Yesterday, Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal has drawn the court's attention towards the issue of collaboration of the key functionaries of the State with the accused persons, referring to the documents submitted by him along with the Protest Petition. It was his submission that the SIT did not make investigations regarding the collaboration and the allied issues, when there was evidence before it.

During the course of four days until today, Mr. Sibal contended that the Special Investigation Team had neither looked into the reports by the National Human Rights Commission, Election Commission, or the Committee on Empowerment of Women set up by Parliament with respect to the Gujarat riots nor did they examine the members of such commissions. He also demonstrated the flaw in SIT's stand that there was no violence or arson.

SIT has not challenged the Gujarat High Court's decision to acquit Maya Kodnani, former BJP MLA from Naroda, who was identified as the 'kingpin' in the Naroda Patiya massacre of 2002 by the trial court, Mr. Kapil Sibal argued hinting at the political optics of the SIT not challenging the High Court order. Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal told the Supreme Court that the SIT head RK Raghavan was appointed as a High Commissioner later, and all these people who 'collaborated were rehabilitated later.