Know facts about Ahmedabad's Gulbarg Society massacre in 2002

New Delhi: The Gulbarg Society was a cluster of 29 bungalows and 10 apartment buildings in Chamanpura locality of Ahmedabad. The society was housing upper middle class families mostly belonging to the minority ommunity.On February 28, 2002, during the 2002 Gujarat riots it was attacked by a mob, which breached the boundary wall and started torching houses. Most of the houses were burnt. By evening, 69 people, including former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri were charred to death.It was at around 9 am that a mob shouting slogans gathered outside the Gulbarg Society. Hearing the mob, many of the residents took refuge in the home of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri , but Jafri was also not able to do anything to protect himself and other residents of the society. Jafri was hacked to death and later burnt.On June 8, 2006 Zakia Jafri, widow of Ehsan Jafri first made the complaint alleging that the police had not registered the FIRs against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, and 62 others including several ministers alleging a conspiracy to allow the massacre. In October 2007, Tehelka carried out a sting operation wherein 14 VHP or Bajrang Dal activists, including, Madan Chawal, a Gulbarg Society massacre accused, and a BJP MLA from Godhra, Haresh Bhatt who was national vice-president of Bajrang Dal during the riots, were shown talking about the execution of the killings .On November 3, 2007, Zakia Jafri approached the Gujarat High Court with her complaint but the Gujarat high court refused to entertain her plea, and instead asked her to present the case before magistrate's court.The Supreme Court, on March 26, 2008, ordered the Narendra Modi government to re-investigate 10 cases in the 2002 Gujarat riots, including the Gulbarg Society massacre.Zakia Jafri later approached the Supreme Court, which on April 27, 2009 appointed a five-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by R K Raghavan, a former head of the CBI, to investigate into the Gujarat riot cases.In March 2010, SIT summoned Narendra Modi to give an explanation regarding accusations against him in the murder of Ehsan Jaffri and others at Gulbarg society.In March 2010, the Gulbarg Society case trial was stayed by the Supreme Court.The Special Investigative Team (SIT) finally submitted its report to the registry o May 14, 2010.On December 15, 2010, Zakiya Jafri and others victims filed an application with the Supreme Court, requesting it to direct SIT to submit the report before the Ahmedabad court as ordered by the SC, within 30 days.Thereafter on February 8, 2012, SIT submitted its final report to a Gujarat magistrate's court.In its closure report filed the SIT submitted that Jafri was killed because he provoked a “violent mob” that had assembled “to take revenge of Godhra incident from the Muslims.Zakiya Jafri had filed a protest petition on April 15, this year objecting to the Supreme Court-appointed SIT's closure report absolving Modi of complicity in the conspiracy behind the carnage. But on December 26,the metropolitan court rejected the protest petition filed by Zakiya Jafri and gave clean chit to Narendera Modi.Metropolitan Magistrate B J Ganatra while pronouncing the order in open court told Zakiya's counsel Mihir Desai that her petition has been rejected and they have the liberty to approach a higher court.