Zakia Jafri, on June 8, 2006, filed a mammoth 119-page complaint with the Director General of Police, Gujarat, making out a case for criminal conspiracy to commit mass murder, destruction of evidence and intimidation and subversion of the criminal justice system.
On February 28, 2007, she filed a petition in the Gujarat HC praying for the registration of an FIR on the charges and also for the transfer of investigation to the CBI, which was dismissed by the high court in November 2007.
However, the case went to the Supreme Court and it directed SIT to investigate the case. On April 27, 2009, the SC asked the already appointed SIT to investigate the charges in the SLP and take action according to law. Raghavan got in AK Malhotra and Paramveer Singh to investigate.
Eventually, a three-judge bench headed by Justice DK Jain directed the SIT, which is probing the riot cases, to submit its final report before the magistrate who was asked to decide whether to proceed against Modi and 62 others, which includes senior government officials.
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