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Gujarat riots: Victims remembered in Gulbarg Society on 21st anniversary

Eyes that speak louder than BBC’s Modi question

Our Bureau Published 01.03.23, 03:01 AM
Zakia Jafri , the widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri who was killed along with 68 others in the Gulbarg Society in Ahmedabad during the Gujarat riots of 2002, and others visited the society on Tuesday — the 21st anniversary of the massacre.
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Zakia Jafri , the widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri who was killed along with 68 others in the Gulbarg Society in Ahmedabad during the Gujarat riots of 2002, and others visited the society on Tuesday — the 21st anniversary of the massacre.

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In June last year, the Supreme Court dismissed Zakia’s petition challenging the clean chit given by a special investigation team to Narendra Modi, the then Gujarat chief minister and now the Prime Minister of India, and others in the riot case.
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In June last year, the Supreme Court dismissed Zakia’s petition challenging the clean chit given by a special investigation team to Narendra Modi, the then Gujarat chief minister and now the Prime Minister of India, and others in the riot case.

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The Gujarat riots burst back into global centre-stage recently when the BBC showed a documentary that enraged the Modi government and its supporters.
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The Gujarat riots burst back into global centre-stage recently when the BBC showed a documentary that enraged the Modi government and its supporters.

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Dara Mody, whose 13-year-old son Azhar went missing while trying to escape the rioters with his mother and sister during the Gulbarg Society massacre, visits their home on the 21st anniversary of the tragedy on Tuesday. A film was made on Azhar’s disappearance and the quest of his parents, Dara and Rupa, to find him. Rahul Dholakia’s Parzania, which featured Naseeruddin Shah and Sarika as the Parsi couple looking for their son, was not screened in Gujarat when it was released in 2007.
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Dara Mody, whose 13-year-old son Azhar went missing while trying to escape the rioters with his mother and sister during the Gulbarg Society massacre, visits their home on the 21st anniversary of the tragedy on Tuesday. A film was made on Azhar’s disappearance and the quest of his parents, Dara and Rupa, to find him. Rahul Dholakia’s Parzania, which featured Naseeruddin Shah and Sarika as the Parsi couple looking for their son, was not screened in Gujarat when it was released in 2007.

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