The SC judgement dedicates 2 pages to Zee News editor-in-chief Sudhir Chaudhary’s interview with PM Modi who was the CM of Gujarat at the time. This interview was conducted by Chaudhary, who was a correspondent at the network at the time, on March 1, 2002. It mentions that Chaudhary requested for a short 10-minute interview after a press conference by then CM Modi. "Shri Narendra Modi had been questioned about the aforesaid interview given to Zee TV on 01.03.2002. He (Shri Modi) had further stated that he had tried to appeal to the people to shun violence in straight and simple language.

Source: dna June 25, 2022 09:19 UTC