Zakia Jafri on Monday demanded filing of a chargesheet against Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and 58 others for their complicity in the 2002 riots and sought rejection of the Special Investigation Team report, saying the SIT “covered up the crimes and misled the court” by giving a clean chit to them.
Ms Jafri, wife of riots victim and former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, who was killed by a mob in the Gulberg Society violence in 2002, filed a protest petition in a local court against the closure report of 2012 that let Mr Modi and others off the hook.
Ms Jafri also sought further investigations into her complaint filed in 2006 by an independent agency other than the Supreme Court-appointed SIT.
In her complaint, Ms Jafri had sought the prosecution of Mr Modi, along with 58 others, for aiding and abetting 2002 post-Godhra communal riots in which more then 1,200 people lost their lives, following which the apex court set up the SIT.
The court of metropolitan magistrate B.J. Ganatra will hear Ms Jafri’s petition on a daily basis from April 24.
“We have strongly argued that the SIT had adequate documents and statements to come to a conclusion against all the accused, however, it decided to cover up the crimes and misled the court by giving clean chit to them (Mr Modi and others),” advocate S.M. Vora, who is representing ms Jafri in this case, said.