On Friday, the Supreme Court rejected a petition from the widow of the slain Congressman Ehsan Jafri, Zakia, who claimed a bigger plot, and upheld the SIT's clean chit to the then former Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and 63 other individuals in the state's 2002 riots. The court rejected Jafri's argument as being without substance and confirmed the Gujarat High Court's ruling. The 68 individuals killed at Ahmedabad's Gulberg Society amid unrest on February 28, 2002, a day after the Godhra train burning that claimed 59 lives, included Congress leader and former MP Ehsan Jafri. Over 1000 people, predominantly Muslims, were killed in the riots it started.
