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Friday, December 27, 2013

Narendra Modi Given Clean Chit In Case Relating To The 2002 Communal Riots Thursday Dec 26,2013

The BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi got crucial legal relief when Ahmedabad court on Thursday Dec 26,2013 rejected the petition of Zakia Jafri against the closure report of the Special Investigation Team(SIT) giving a clean chit to the Gujarat Chief Minister in a case relating to the 2002 communal riots.

In a one-line order delivered before a packed courtroom, Ahmedabad Metropolitan Magistrate B.J.Ganatra stated that he rejected Jafri’s protest petition, but said she could approach a higher court.

Reacting to the verdict from Chennai, the Special Investigation Team(SIT) headed by former CBI Director R.K. Raghavan said the “SIT's stand has been vindicated. This has been a professionally satisfying experience.”
The SIT had maintained that it could not order prosecution of Narendra Modi and 61 others in the Gulberg Society case as there was no “prosecutable evidence” for filing a charge sheet

A tearful Zakia Jafri said she would appeal the verdict. “We propose to knock at the doors of a higher court ''

Teesta Setalwad of Citizens for Justice and Peace, who had backed Ms. Jafri’s case, said the order was disappointing, but they would not be disheartened by it

Social activist Teesta Setalwad, left, escorts Zakia Jafri after a court verdict gave clean chit to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in a case relating to the 2002 communal riots, in Ahmedabad on Thursday Dec 26,2013


Note
Zakia Jafri is the wife of Ehsan Jafri, a Congress parliamentarian who was killed along with 69 others in the Gulberg Society massacre in Ahmedabad on February 28, 2002.


Zakia Jafri had filed a protest petition in the court against the SIT report, which found no evidence against the Chief Minister and several other functionaries of the State government named by her in her husband’s killing. Zakia Jafri wanted the court to order the filing of a chargesheet against Narendra Modi and the others she had named.

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