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| Narendra Modi acquitted in Gujarat riots case |
| 2012-04-11 |
| [Dawn] An investigation team appointed by India's Supreme Court has found no evidence against Gujarat's ...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime... chief minister over deadly anti-Mohammedan riots in the state a decade ago, a court said Tuesday. Narendra Modi has been accused by rights groups of having turned a blind eye to the violence that swept the state in 2002 and claimed as many as 2,000 lives, and of failing to bring to justice the perpetrators of the killings. "According to the Special Investigation Team, no offence has been established against" Modi or any of the 57 others listed in the complaint, the magisterial court said, reported by the Press Trust of India. The announcement was a boost for Modi, a prominent member of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and seen as a potential candidate to be India's prime minister in the 2014 general elections. The complaint had been filed by Zakia Jafri, widow of a former Congress Mohammedan politician, Eshan Jafri, who was burnt to death along with 68 other people by a mob in a housing colony in Gujarat. |
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