The Gujarat High Court adjourned the hearing of a petition filed by Zakia Jafri, widow of slain Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, against the Special Investigation Team’s (SIT) closure report in the 2002 post-Godhra riots.
Justice NV Anjariya adjourned the hearing to verify translated documents and posted it for July 10. Jafri had filed the petition last year, challenging the order of the Ahmedabad metropolitan court that upheld the closure report filed by the Supreme Court-formed SIT.
On February 8, 2012, the SIT had filed a closure report and given a clean chit to former Gujarat Chief Minister and present Prime Minister Narendra Modi as well as 58 others, including the then Gujarat ministers, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) functionaries, police and IAS officers in connection with the 2002 riots case.
On December 26, 2013, Metropolitan Magistrate BJ Ganatra had rejected Zakia Jafri’s petition challenging SIT’s clean chit to Modi.
In her petition before the HC, Zakia Jafri had demanded making Modi and 59 others accused in riot cases. On 28 February, 2002, after the Godhra train carnage, 68 people, including former MP Ehsan Jafri, were killed by a mob at Gulberg Society here during the riots.