Zakia Jafri
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Firstpost Podcast: What is the Zakia Jafri case?
Fp Explainers •The 2002 Gujarat Godhra riots is in discussion again. Tune in to the explainer and know the reason
No evidence of ‘larger criminal conspiracy’ on part of State in 2002 Gujarat Riots, says SC; rejects Zakia Jafri's plea
Fp Staff •SC asserts no infraction of rule of law; calls out ‘coalesced effort of the disgruntled officials of the State of Gujarat with others…to create sensation by making revelations which were false to their own knowledge’
2002 Gujarat riots: SC upholds SIT clean chit to PM Modi, dismisses Zakia Jafri's plea
•A three-judge bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar upheld the magistrate's order rejecting Zakia Jafri's protest petition against the closure report filed by the SIT in 2012
'Collaboration' strong term for constituted SIT, SC says on Zakia Jafri's charge
•Zakia Jafri, 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
Gujarat riots: SC to hear Zakia Jafri’s plea against clean chit to Narendra Modi on 13 April
•The apex court set the next date to accommodate requests of senior advocates in the case who are also a part of the ongoing Maratha reservation hearing
Modi survives another scare; SC opts out of direct intervention
Fp Editors •The apex court appears to have reposed faith in the SIT and declines to act directly against Narendra Modi in the Ehsan Jafri case
2002 Godhra riots: SC hearing of Zakia Jafri's plea challenging SIT decision to give clean chit to Narendra Modi set for 14 April
•Supreme Court on Tuesday fixed 14 April for hearing a plea by Zakia Jafri, wife of slain MP Ehsan Jafri, challenging the SIT's clean chit to then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 riots.
Narendra Modi conferred Seoul Peace Prize for 'Modinomics', Act East Policy: All you need to know about the award
Fp Staff •Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be awarded the Seoul Peace Prize 2018 during his two-day South Korea visit starting Thursday. Modi, the fourteenth recipient of the prize, became the first Indian to have been conferred the prestigious award.
Supreme Court to hear Zakia Jafri's plea challenging SIT's clean chit to Narendra Modi in 2002 Gujarat riots
•Zakia, the wife of former MP Ehsan Jafri who was one of the 68 killed in Ahmedabad's Gulberg society, has challenged the Gujarat High Court's order rejecting her plea against the SIT's decision in the Supreme Court.
SC defers Zakia Jafri's plea over Gujarat riots case till January: All you need to know about Gulbarg Society massacre
Fp Staff •Ahmedabad court on Thursday convicted 24 people and pronounced 36 others as innocent in the sensational Gulbarg Society massacre case in Gujarat in which 69 people, including former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, were brutally killed in 2002 in Ahmedabad.