Ahmedabad, July 8 (IANS) The widow of former MP Ehsan
Jaffrey, who was killed in Gujarat's sectarian riots of 2002, Saturday
filed a police complaint against Chief Minister Narendra Modi, other
ministers and senior officials.
In a 100-page-long complaint sent by post to the Gandhinagar police,
Zakia Jaffrey demanded action against 63 people, including Modi, on
charges of conspiracy and ordering subordinates not to perform their
duty when mobs set out to burn and kill during the post-Godhra
violence.
Thirty-eight Muslims were killed, including Ehsan Jaffrey, when a
mob attacked the Gulberg Society building in the Chamanpura
neighbourhood here March 31.
Zakia Jaffrey has also sought that a complaint be registered under
section 154 of Criminal Procedure Code against Modi, other ministers
and some police officials on the basis of the facts that have come to
light in wake of depositions by different police officials.
Jaffrey's family had shifted to Surat following the riots in the
city. The complaint has been posted from Surat and copies were also
sent to the director general of police, home secretary and chief
secretary of the state.
Ehsan Jaffrey, a former Congress MP, pleaded to the police over
telephone to rescue him and other inmates of Gulberg Society from a mob
that had ringed the houses but the authorities turned a deaf ear.
Eventually, 38 Muslims burnt to death.
The police had registered a complaint in the case in 2002 and the case is pending before the Supreme Court.
At least 1,000 people died in riots after a coach of the Sabarmati
Express train was set on fire in Godhra, killing 59 passengers, on Feb
27, 2002.
