New Delhi | The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned its hearing till 3rd week of January in a plea filed by Zakia Jafari, widow of former Congress MP Eshaan Jafari.
Zakia Jafari had filed a plea in the Supreme Court challenging clean chit given by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to PM Narendra Modi, other top politicians and bureaucrats in the 2002 Gujarat riots.
Earlier in October 2017 the Gujarat High court had dismissed Zakia Jafari’s plea challenging the Supreme Court appointed SIT’s clean chit to PM Modi pertaining “larger conspiracy” behind the 2002 Gujarat riots. The Gujarat High Court had upheld the decision of Magisterial court’s verdict which accepted the SITs closure report citing lack of “prosecutable evidence” against PM Modi and other leaders.
The plea was filed by Zakia Jafari, wife of former Congress MP Eshaan Jafari who was killed along with 68 other people in Gulbarga society in Chamanpura, Ahmedabad during the riots. More than 1,000 people died while 2,500 were injured during the 2002 Gujarat riots.
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