{"id":38486,"date":"2015-07-27T12:15:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T12:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=38486"},"modified":"2015-07-27T12:15:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T12:15:31","slug":"guj-hc-adjourns-final-hearing-on-zakias-appeal-to-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/guj-hc-adjourns-final-hearing-on-zakias-appeal-to-48","title":{"rendered":"Guj HC adjourns final hearing on Zakia&#8217;s appeal to 4\/8"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_38487\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38487\" style=\"width: 236px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/modi.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"38487\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/guj-hc-adjourns-final-hearing-on-zakias-appeal-to-48\/modi-8\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/modi.jpg?fit=236%2C214&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"236,214\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"modi\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/modi.jpg?fit=236%2C214&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-38487 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/modi.jpg?resize=236%2C214&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Guj HC adjourns final hearing on Zakia's appeal to 4\/8\" width=\"236\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38487\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guj HC adjourns final hearing on Zakia&#8217;s appeal to 4\/8<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Gujarat High Court today adjourned to August 4 the final hearing of Zakia Jafri&#8217;s appeal against a lower court order upholding the clean chit given by special investigation team to then Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others for their alleged roles in 2002 riots.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Sonia Gokani adjourned the hearing after Jafri&#8217;s lawyer S M Tirmizi sought more time to study case material.<\/p>\n<p>The appeal has been filed by activist Teesta Setalvad and Jafri, the widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri who was killed during the post-Gohdra riots of 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Setalvad and Jafri had filed a complaint against Modi (who was then the Gujarat Chief Minister) and 62 others, including some then ministers, top police officials and BJP leaders for being party to a wider conspiracy regarding the riots in the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>The apex court asked the SIT to probe the complaint. The SIT submitted a report to the Supreme Court, and the court asked amicus curie Raju Ramchandran to verify it. Ramchandran also submitted a report to the Supreme court.<\/p>\n<p>On September 12, 2011, the Supreme Court directed the SIT to submit its final report, along with the entire evidence material collected, to the local magistrate&#8217;s court.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, the magistrate&#8217;s court here, revealing the contents of the report, said that the SIT had given a clean chit to Modi and others. Setalvad and Jafri then filed a protest petition, but magistrate B J Ganatra rejected it.<\/p>\n<p>The two have moved the high court against it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gujarat High Court today adjourned to August 4 the final hearing of Zakia Jafri&#8217;s appeal against a lower court order upholding the clean chit given by special investigation team to then Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others for their alleged roles in 2002 riots. 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