2002 Gujarat riots: SIT protected people from being prosecuted, Zakia Jafri tells SC

Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for Zakia Jafri, told the Supreme Court that the SIT did not do its job and instead there was an effort to "protect" people from prosecution in the case.

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) had not conducted any probe on the alleged larger conspiracy in the 2002 Gujarat riots and there was an effort to "protect" and ensure that people from the Bajrang Dal, police, bureaucracy and others are not prosecuted, Zakia Jafri told the Supreme Court on Thursday.

The wife of slain Congress leader Ehsan Jafri, who was killed at Gulberg society in Ahmedabad on February 28, 2002 during the violence, has challenged the SIT's clean chit to 64 people including Narendra Modi, the then Gujarat chief minister during the riots.