{"id":54860,"date":"2018-12-03T17:56:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T12:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=54860"},"modified":"2018-12-03T17:57:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T12:27:01","slug":"sc-defers-zakia-jafris-plea-plea-challenging-clean-chit-to-pm-modi-in-gujarat-riots-till-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-defers-zakia-jafris-plea-plea-challenging-clean-chit-to-pm-modi-in-gujarat-riots-till-january","title":{"rendered":"SC defers Zakia Jafri&#8217;s plea plea challenging clean chit to PM Modi in Gujarat riots till January"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" data-attachment-id=\"54861\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-defers-zakia-jafris-plea-plea-challenging-clean-chit-to-pm-modi-in-gujarat-riots-till-january\/page-1\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/page-1.jpg?fit=660%2C440&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"660,440\" 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=\"page-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/page-1.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/page-1.jpg?fit=640%2C427&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/page-1.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54861\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/page-1.jpg?w=660&amp;ssl=1 660w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/page-1.jpg?resize=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/page-1.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>NEW DELHI:&nbsp;The Supreme Court on Monday&nbsp;adjourned the plea of Zakia Jafri&nbsp;challenging the clean chit given by the Special Investigation Team (SIT)&nbsp;to Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the 2002 Gujarat riots&nbsp;till January third week.&nbsp;&nbsp;Zakia Jafri is the widow of slain Congress leader Ehsan Jafri&nbsp;&nbsp;who was killed in one of the worst incidents during the riots in Ahmedabad on February 28, 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier&nbsp;On 5 October 2017, the Gujarat High Court had rejected Jafri&#8217;s plea challenging a lower court order upholding SIT&#8217;s clean chit to the&nbsp;then Chief Minister Modi and others on allegations of larger conspiracy in connection with the riots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senior advocate C S Vaidyanathan, appearing for Gujarat government opposed the suggestion and said that it is a separate case and should not be tagged along with the criminal appeals. 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