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.
