{"id":50057,"date":"2017-10-05T13:52:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T08:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=50057"},"modified":"2017-10-05T13:52:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T08:22:19","slug":"2002-riots-gujarat-hc-rejects-jafris-plea-larger-conspiracy-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/2002-riots-gujarat-hc-rejects-jafris-plea-larger-conspiracy-charge","title":{"rendered":"2002 riots : Gujarat HC rejects Jafri&#8217;s plea on larger conspiracy charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_48043\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48043\" style=\"width: 286px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/modi.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"48043\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/ban-red-beacons-aimed-ending-vip-culture-mindset-pm\/modi-12\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/modi.jpg?fit=286%2C176&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"286,176\" 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\/2017\/04\/modi.jpg?fit=286%2C176&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-48043 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/modi.jpg?resize=286%2C176&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"2002 riots : Gujarat HC rejects Jafri's plea on larger conspiracy charge\" width=\"286\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/modi.jpg?w=286&amp;ssl=1 286w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/modi.jpg?resize=150%2C92&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48043\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2002 riots : Gujarat HC rejects Jafri&#8217;s plea on larger conspiracy charge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Gujarat High Court today rejected Zakia Jafri&#8217;s plea challenging a lower court order upholding SIT&#8217;s clean chit to then chief minister Narendra Modi and others on the allegation of larger conspiracy in connection with the 2002 post-Godhra riots.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Sonia Gokani rejected the larger conspiracy charge, saying that it was not accepted by the Supreme court.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It (larger conspiracy) was already discussed by the Supreme Court in Sanjiv Bhatt&#8217;s matter and dismissed by it. I do not want to go into that, therefore I reject this plea for larger conspiracy,&#8221; Justice Gokani said.<\/p>\n<p>However, she said that the petitioner can approach a higher court for further investigation in the case.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The magistrate was not right in saying that it had limited power with regards to further investigation,&#8221; Justice Gokani said.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing in the case had concluded on July 3.<\/p>\n<p>Zakia, the wife of slain former MP Ehsan Jafri, and activist Teesta Setalvad&#8217;s NGO Citizen for Justice and Peace had moved the criminal review petition against a magistrate&#8217;s order upholding the clean chit given by the special investigation team (SIT) to Modi and others regarding the allegations of a &#8220;larger criminal conspiracy&#8221; behind the riots.<\/p>\n<p>The petition demanded that Modi and 59 others &#8212; including senior police officers and bureaucrats &#8212; be made accused for allegedly being part of a conspiracy which facilitated the riots.<\/p>\n<p>It had also sought the high court&#8217;s direction for fresh investigation into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Ehsan Jafri, a Congress leader, was among 68 people who were killed at the Gulberg Society here when a mob attacked it on February 28, 2002, a day after the Godhra train burning incident which set off riots in the state.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2013, a metropolitan court had rejected Jafri&#8217;s plea to book Modi and others for criminal conspiracy, after which she moved the high court in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The SIT had on February 8, 2012 filed a closure report and given clean chit to Modi and others in the case.<\/p>\n<p>The SIT had earlier submitted before the high court that its probe was conducted under the Supreme Court&#8217;s watchful eye, and that its report was largely accepted by all.<\/p>\n<p>The lower court looked into all aspects of allegations to conclude that there was no further need to investigate the matter from the angle of &#8220;larger conspiracy&#8221;, the SIT argued.<\/p>\n<p>Jafri&#8217;s lawyer Mihir Desai earlier argued in the HC that the magistrate, while accepting the SIT&#8217;s closure report, did not even consider other options such as rejecting the report or ordering a fresh probe.<\/p>\n<p>The lower court ignored the Supreme Court&#8217;s guidelines and did not consider the signed statements of witnesses which suggested that there was a conspiracy, he had argued.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gujarat High Court today rejected Zakia Jafri&#8217;s plea challenging a lower court order upholding SIT&#8217;s clean chit to then chief minister Narendra Modi and others on the allegation of larger conspiracy in connection with the 2002 post-Godhra riots. 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