SIT submits report on Gulbarg Society

The Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigating Team (SIT) on Friday submitted to the apex court registry its report on the Gulbarg Society massacre in which 69 people, including former Congress MP Ehsan Jaffri, were killed during the 2002 Gujarat communal riots.

The panel, headed by former Central Bureau of Investiogation (CBI) director R K Raghvan, probed the allegation of inaction by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, his cabinet colleagues and several senior officers of the state to prevent or tackle the carnage.

In all, 63 people were named in the complaint by Zakia Jaffri, widow of Ehsan Jaffri.

Raghvan submitted the report to the registry in a sealed cover as directed by the apex court bench of Justice D K Jain, Justice P Sathasivam and Justice Aftab Alam.

On April 27, 2009, the bench headed by Justice Arijit Pasayat (since retired) had asked the SIT to “look into” the complaint of Zakia alleging involvement of 63 people for their inaction in the incident.