{"id":33706,"date":"2014-06-13T11:10:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T05:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=33706"},"modified":"2014-06-13T11:10:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T05:40:24","slug":"02-guj-riots-hc-adjourns-hearing-zakias-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/02-guj-riots-hc-adjourns-hearing-zakias-petition","title":{"rendered":"&#8217;02 Guj riots: HC adjourns hearing on Zakia&#8217;s petition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/02-guj-riots-hc-adjourns-hearing-zakias-petition\/gujarat-high-court-24\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33707\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"33707\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/02-guj-riots-hc-adjourns-hearing-zakias-petition\/gujarat-high-court-24\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/Gujarat-High-Court.jpg?fit=278%2C181&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"278,181\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Gujarat High Court\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/Gujarat-High-Court.jpg?fit=278%2C181&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright wp-image-33707 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Gujarat-High-Court.jpg?resize=247%2C161&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Gujarat High Court\" width=\"247\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/Gujarat-High-Court.jpg?w=278&amp;ssl=1 278w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/Gujarat-High-Court.jpg?resize=150%2C97&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/a>Gujarat High Court today adjourned hearing on the petition filed by Zakia Jafri, the widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, challenging the order of a local court which upheld special investigation team&#8217;s a clean chit to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and others in a 2002 riots case.<\/p>\n<p>Justice S G Shah posted the hearing for July 15 after asking the registry department to provide translation of the voluminous documents of the case.<\/p>\n<p>On December 26 last year, Metropolitan Magistrate B J Ganatra here rejected Zakia&#8217;s protest petition challenging the Supreme Court-appointed SIT&#8217;s clean chit to Modi.<\/p>\n<p>On March 15 this year, Zakia moved the HC against the Magistrate&#8217;s order upholding the SIT&#8217;s closure report.<\/p>\n<p>Her petition seeks &#8220;to make Modi and 59 others accused on charges of criminal conspiracy to commit a mass murder, arson&#8230;and also tampering with evidence and destroying records of the Gujarat Home Department&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The petition alleges that the Magistrate accepted SIT&#8217;s closure report with a &#8220;non-application of mind&#8221;. It also alleges that destruction of key records was carried out to ensure injustice to the victims, in which the Chief Minister&#8217;s office and the state home department were allegedly involved.<\/p>\n<p>On February 28, 2002, following the Godhra train fire incident, 68 people including Ehsan Jafri were killed by a mob at Gulbarg Society here, as riots swept many parts of Gujarat.<\/p>\n<p>Modi was the Chief Minister of the state then.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gujarat High Court today adjourned hearing on the petition filed by Zakia Jafri, the widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, challenging the order of a local court which upheld special investigation team&#8217;s a clean chit to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and others in a 2002 riots case. 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