Court to hear Zakiya Jafri's plea against Modi today

April 24, 2013 09:29

An Ahmedabad court will today begin the hearing on the protest petition filed by Zakiya Jafri against the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team's closure report on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and 61 others for their alleged involvement in 2002 Gujarat riots.

Jafri, wife of Congress leader Ehsaan Jafri, had filed the petition last week as per Supreme Court direction that the victim should be heard before taking a decision on the closure report.

Jafri's case relates to the killing of her husband and 68 people on February 28, 2002 at the Gulberg Housing Society in Ahmedabad where the Jafris lived.

Jafri alleges that Modi and several senior ministers and officials did nothing to prevent the killings, despite several frantic calls made by her husband to the police and even to the Chief Minister's office, for help as a mob attacked the housing complex.

Her petition now claims despite a plethora of intelligence messages to indicate revenge killings by the rioters, the administration took no preventive action

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