2002 riots case: Zakia Jafri moves Gujarat HC against clean chit to Modi

Zakia Jafri, wife of Ehsan Jafri, a former Congress MP who was killed during the 2002 post-Godhra riots, has moved the Gujarat High Court against a lower court order accepting a special investigation team’s clean chit to Narendra Modi and others.

Ehsan Jafri was killed along with 69 others in the Gulberg Society massacre in Ahmedabad on February 28, 2002.

A court in Ahmedabad had on December 26, 2013 rejected the petition of Ms. Zakia Jafri against the closure report of the SIT giving a clean chit to the Gujarat Chief Minister in the case.

In a one-line order delivered before a packed courtroom, Metropolitan Magistrate B.J.Ganatra had stated that he rejected Ms. Zakia Jafri’s protest petition, but said she could approach a higher court.

She had filed a protest petition in the court against the SIT report, which found no evidence against Mr. Modi and several other functionaries of the State government named by her in her husband’s killing. Ms. Zakia Jafri wanted the court to order the filing of a charge sheet against Mr. Modi and the others she had named.