Zakia Jafri is the widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, who was among the 69 people massacred at Gulbarg Society in Ahmedabad during the Gujarat riots.
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The High Court last year upheld
an SIT's clean chit to Narendra Modi and others. (File)
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HIGHLIGHTS
- Gujarat High Court had upheld the SIT's clean chit to top politicians
- SIT report said that Mr Modi took all possible steps to control the riots
- Zakia Jafri's husband Ehsaan Jafri was killed in Gulbarg Society massacre
2002 Gujarat riots victim Zakia
Jafri's petition challenging the clean chit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi
will be heard by the Supreme Court on Monday. The Gujarat High Court had last
year rejected the petition that alleges a "larger conspiracy" in the
riots, and had upheld an SIT or Special Investigation Team's clean chit to top
politicians including Mr Modi, who was then chief minister of Gujarat.
The report of the Supreme Court
monitored SIT in 2012 had concluded that Chief Minister Modi took all possible
steps to control the riots that swept through Gujarat in the aftermath of the
killing of 59 people when coaches of the Sabarmati Express train were set on
fire at Godhra station.
The petition
filed by Zakia Jafri and the NGO Citizen for Justice and Peace, run by
Teesta Setalvad, had sought a criminal trial, alleging that the Chief Minister
had turned a blind eye to the violence.
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Zakia Jafri's husband was among
the 69 killed in the Gulbarg Society massacre on 28 February 2002. (File)
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Zakia Jafri, 80, is the widow of
former Congress MP Ehsaan Jafri, who was among the 69 people massacred at Gulbarg
Society in Ahmedabad on 28 February 2002. Ehsaan Jafri, a former
Congress parliamentarian, was dragged out, hacked and burnt by the rioters. The
Congress leader's frantic phone calls to police officers and senior politicians
for help went unanswered, Zakia Jafri had alleged.
She approached the high court in
March 2014 against the SIT's report, which had also questioned the motive
behind her complaint four years after the riots.
The massacre at Gulbarg Society -
a cluster of 29 bungalows and 10 apartment buildings housing mostly Muslims -
was among the 10 major Gujarat riot cases re-investigated by the special team
appointed by the Supreme Court.
The trial court had ruled that Mr
Jafri opening fire in self-defence had "acted as a catalyst and infuriated
the mob".
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