Zakia Jafri, Gujarat riots survivor and face of legal battle, dies at 86

Ahmedabad: A tragic info has emerged from Gujarat, where Zakia Jafri, widow of dilapidated Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, handed away in Ahmedabad on Saturday due to the age-connected points. Zakia became a survivor of the Gulberg Society massacre that took location on February 28, 2002. She became 86. Per her son Tanveer, Jafri breathed her closing at around 11:30 am. She spent her final moments alongside with her liked daughter, Nishrin Jafri, in Ahmedabad.

“My mom became visiting my sister’s dwelling in Ahmedabad. She accomplished her day by day morning routine and became chatting in overall alongside with her relations when she complained of feeling uneasy. The doctor, who became called in, declared her lifeless around 11:30 am,” PTI quoted Tanveer as asserting.

As per reviews, Zakia may be buried beside her husband in the metropolis.

Zakia’s husband, Ehsan Jafri became amongst the 68 of us that died real by intention of the gated Gulberg Society in the Chamanpura dwelling of Ahmedabad. The Gulberg Society massacre had taken location a day after coaches of the Sabarmati Narrate put together had been burnt in Godhra, ensuing in the deaths of 59 ‘karsevaks’ coming again from Ayodhya.

It is miles price noting that Ehsan Jafri, became regarded as one of the 68 of us that misplaced their lives in the Gulberg Society, located in the Chamanpura put of Ahmedabad. This tragic occasion came about the day after the Sabarmati Narrate put together coaches had been house on fire in Godhra, leading to the deaths of 59 ‘karsevaks’ who had been coming again from Ayodhya.

Gujarat Riots 2002

The 2002 Gujarat riots became the three-day period of inter-communal violence in Gujarat. The riots started following the burning of a put together in Godhra on 27 February 2002. The put together incident precipitated the deaths of 58 Hindu pilgrims coming again from Ayodhya. Following the preliminary riots, extra outbreaks of violence in Ahmedabad had been reported for three months.

In 2006, Zakia Jafri submitted a complaint accusing the police to no longer registering a complaint against then chief minister of the impart and now Prime Minister Narendra Modi and utterly different politicians in connection with the lethal riots.

In 2022, her plea, no longer easy the dapper chit to PM Modi and others by the SIT, became rejected by the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court issued some contentious comments relating to Teesta Setalvad, who co-petitioned alongside Jafri. Which capability truth, Setalvad became arrested by the Gujarat Police in a newly filed case that accused her of evidence tampering. In 2023, the Supreme Court later granted her bail.
“Zakia Appa a compassionate chief of the human rights community, handed away honest 30 minutes in the past!Her visionary presence may be overlooked by the nation household friends & world! Tanveernhai, Nishrin, Duraiyaappa, grandkids we're with you! Leisure in Vitality and Peace Zakia appa!” Setalvad wrote in ‘X’

Zakia grew to was the face of the fight for justice for the victims of the 2002 lethal riots thanks to her long-drawn fight against the Gujarat authorities.