The Supreme Court has commenced the finalhearing on a petition by Zakia Ahsan Jafri's plea challenging the SIT reportgiving clean chit to the then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and otherhigh functionaries in the Gujarat riots of 2002.
Jafri told the SC that the SpecialInvestigation Team (SIT) ignored a mass of evidence and drew conclusionswithout any investigation in the 2002 Gujarat riots and did not recordstatements, seize phones, check how bombs were manufactured and straightawayfiled closure reports.
For nearly 20 years, Zakia Jafri has beencontinuing her battle for justice.
Ehsan Jafri was among the 68 people killed atthe Gulberg Society in Ahmedabad on February 28, 2002 -- a day after the S-6coach of the Sabarmati Express was burnt at Godhra, killing 59 people andtriggering riots in Gujarat.
A Bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar, DineshMaheshwari and CT Ravikumar said the matter would be listed tomorrow, November11.
Sibal told a bench headed by Justice A MKhanwilkar that communal violence is a "fertile ground" for futurerevenge and he too had lost his maternal grandparents in Pakistan.
"Communal violence is like lava eruptingfrom a volcano. It is institutionalized violence. Wherever that lava touches,it scars the earth. It is a fertile ground for future revenge," he toldthe bench, also comprising Justices Dinesh Maheshwari and C T Ravikumar.
"I lost my maternal parents to it inPakistan," a visibly emotional Sibal told the bench, which was hearingJafri's plea.
Zakia Jafri had filed a petition in the apexcourt in 2018 challenging the Gujarat High Court's October 5, 2017 orderrejecting her plea against the decision of the SIT.
The high court in its October 2017 order hadsaid the SIT probe was monitored by the Supreme Court.
However, it partly allowed Zakia Jafri'spetition as far as its demand for a further investigation was concerned.