{"id":28841,"date":"2017-10-05T14:56:53","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T09:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=28841"},"modified":"2017-10-05T14:58:40","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T09:28:40","slug":"gulbarg-massacre-gujarat-hc-rejects-plea-by-zakia-jafri-seeking-inclusion-of-pm-modi-as-accused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/gulbarg-massacre-gujarat-hc-rejects-plea-by-zakia-jafri-seeking-inclusion-of-pm-modi-as-accused\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulbarg massacre: Gujarat HC rejects plea by Zakia Jafri seeking inclusion of PM Modi as accused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<em>Court upholds SIT clean chit to the then chief minister of Gujarat and senior bureaucrats but says petitioner can move the SC<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Gujarat High Court,\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_1503964141\">on Thursday<\/span>\u00a0(October 5), refused to accede to a petition which had asked for the inclusion of <a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/topic\/narendra-modi\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi <\/a>and 59 others, including senior police officers and bureaucrats, as accused for being party to a \u201cconspiracy\u201d that led to the 2002 post-Godhra riots and killings.<\/p>\n<p>The high court\u2019s Justice Sonia Gokani, however, allowed the petition to be moved before the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/topic\/supreme-court\">Supreme Court<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The petition was placed by Zakia Jafri, widow of slain ex-MP Ehsan Jafri. Zakia\u2019s petition pertains to the massacre that happened in Ahmedabad\u2019s Gulbarg society during the 2002 post-Godhra riots. Ehsan Jafri, a former Congress MP, was hacked to death by the Hindu rioters along with 67 others\u2013 all Muslims \u2013 at the Gulbrag Society on February 28, 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Zakia has maintained that the brutal murder of her husband and others at the society was done at the behest of the then Gujarat chief minister, Narendra Modi. She and her family members have earlier said that numerous calls made by Ehsan Jafri to the chief minister\u2019s office seeking security for the society hours before the rioters reached there had gone unheeded.<\/p>\n<p><span data-term=\"goog_1503964142\">Thursday\u2019s<\/span>\u00a0verdict of the<a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/topic\/high-court\"> high court <\/a>was against a criminal review petition filed by NGO Citizen for Justice and Peace\u2019s (led by activist Teesta Setalvad) which had challenged a magistrate\u2019s order that upheld the SIT clean chit to Modi and others. The allegations refuted by the magistrate were of a \u201clarger criminal conspiracy\u201d behind the riots.<\/p>\n<p>The SIT\u2019s deposition before the high court said that its probe was monitored by the Supreme Court and that its report was generally accepted by all. The court decided that there was no need for further investigation, especially regarding the \u201cconspiracy\u201d angle.<\/p>\n<p>Zakia Jafri\u2019s counsel Mihir Desai had pointed out to the court that the magistrate never considered rejecting the report or ordering a fresh probe, neither did it consider signed statements of witnesses. He also pointed out that submissions of key witnesses such as (former IPS officers) Sanjiv Bhatt, R.B. Sreekumar and Rahul Sharma were not even considered, neither was Tehelka magazine\u2019s sting operation result.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Court upholds SIT clean chit to the then chief minister of Gujarat and senior bureaucrats but says petitioner can move the SC The Gujarat High Court,\u00a0on Thursday\u00a0(October 5), refused to accede to a petition which had asked for the inclusion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and 59 others, including senior police officers and bureaucrats, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":28844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497],"tags":[23986,369,1399,320],"yst_prominent_words":[23985,23983,23979,20926,3811,23982,20997,23980,4030,23984,3688,6625,6619,3710,8788,19421,23981,23978,4779,4402],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Zakia-Jafri.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28841"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=28841"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=28841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->