{"id":208158,"date":"2019-01-15T13:21:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T07:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=208158"},"modified":"2019-01-15T13:21:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T07:51:36","slug":"2002-gujarat-riots-sc-to-hear-zakia-jafris-plea-against-clean-chit-to-pm-modi-after-4-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/01\/15\/2002-gujarat-riots-sc-to-hear-zakia-jafris-plea-against-clean-chit-to-pm-modi-after-4-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"2002 Gujarat Riots: SC to hear Zakia Jafri&#8217;s plea against clean chit to PM Modi after 4 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Supreme Court:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0In the plea filed by Zakia Jafri, challenging the SIT&#8217;s clean chit to then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi in connection with the 2002 Godhra riots, the Court said that it will hear the matter after four weeks.\u00a0Zakia Jafri is the wife of ex-MP Ehsan Jafri who was one of the 68 killed in Ahmedabad&#8217;s Gulberg society.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Petitioner submitted before the Court that\u00a0a notice needs to be issued in the plea as it pertains to alleged &#8220;larger conspiracy&#8221; during February 27, 2002 and May 2002 and that after the SIT gave a clean chit in its closure report before a trial judge, the petitioner filed a protest which was dismissed by the magistrate without considering &#8220;substantiated merits&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On February 8, 2012, the SIT filed a closure report saying there was &#8220;no prosecutable evidence&#8221; against the accused persons.\u00a0The Gujarat high court in its October 5, 2017, order said the SIT probe was monitored by the Supreme Court. 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