PM Modi’s Clean Chit Being Challenged? Supreme Court Accepts Plea Filed By Zakia Jafri For Gujarat Riots 

The Supreme Court has accepted to hear a plea filed by Zakia Jafri challenging the clean chit given to PM Narendra Modi and other’s involvement in the 2002 riots.

The plea is set to be heard by the apex court on 19 November.

The Gujarat High Court rejected Zakia Jafri's plea in October. The appeal challenged a lower court order upholding the Special Investigation Team’s (SIT) clean chit to the then chief minister Narendra Modi and others on the allegation of a larger conspiracy behind the 2002 post-Godhra riots , as reported by New Indian Express.

The plea demanded to charge Modi and 59 others including senior bureaucrats and police officers in an alleged larger conspiracy of facilitating riots. It also sought the High Court’s direction for fresh investigation.

Ehsan Jafri was one of the 68 victims at the Gulberg Society incident in Ahmedabad when a mob attacked it on 28 February 2002. This incident happened a day after the Godhra train burning incident, where 59 Hindu pilgrims where set on fire which set off the infamous Gujarat riots.