New Delhi. How can the 2002 Gujarat riots be forgotten? On 28 February 2002, during the violence at Gulbarg Society in Ahmedabad, 69 people were killed, including Congress MLA Ehsan Jafri. After this incident, Zakia Jafri, wife of Congress MLA Jafri, challenged the clean chit of the SIT to 64 people, including the then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, during the riots in the state. In this case, wife Zakia Jafri had approached the Supreme Court. Hearing in this matter today, the court has given a setback to him. The Supreme Court on Friday dealt a blow to Zakia Jafri by rejecting the petition filed against the SIT report giving clean chit to the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the riot case. The court has upheld the investigation report of the SIT as correct.
Let us tell you, SIT was formed to investigate the riots in 2002. In the report prepared by the SIT, 64 people including the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi were given clean chit. But against this report of the SIT, Zakia Jafri had filed a petition in the Supreme Court. On 28 February 2002, Zakia’s husband and Congress leader Ehsan Jafri died during violence at Gulbarg Society in Ahmedabad.
Court had reserved the decision
The Supreme Court had reserved its decision to complete the marathon hearing on this petition filed by Zakia Jafri. The court had completed the hearing of the case on December 9, 2021 itself. At the same time, now the bench of Justice AM Khanwilkar, Justice Dinesh Maheshwari and Justice CT Ravikumar has completed the hearing in the matter.
SIT gave this argument against the petition
The Special Investigation Team (SIT), which probed the Gujarat riots against the petition filed by Congress MLA Jafri’s wife Zakia Jafri, had said in the Supreme Court that no one pointed fingers at our investigation except Zakia Jafri. Let us tell you, in the petition filed by Jafri, he has alleged that there is a big conspiracy in this violence in the state.