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Zakia’s husband Ehsaan Jafri, a Congress leader, was one among the 69 people killed when a large mob attacked Gulbarg Society in Ahmedabad on 28 February 2002, a day after the Godhra train burning incident which set off riots in the state.
Jafri had moved the criminal review petition against a magistrate's order upholding the clean chit given by the SIT to Modi and others regarding the allegations of a "larger criminal conspiracy" behind the riots.
The petition demanded that Modi and 59 others, including senior police officers and bureaucrats, be made accused for allegedly being part of a conspiracy which facilitated the riots. It also sought the high court's direction for fresh investigation into the matter.