SIT submits fresh status report on Gujarat riots.

New Delhi, October 25: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the 2002 Gujarat riots, including the killing of ex-Congress MP Ehsan Jafri in which Chief Minister Narendra Modi has been questioned for his alleged role, today submitted a fresh status report in the Supreme Court.

SIT’s chief and former CBI Director R K Raghavan submitted the report, the second, in a sealed cover. The agency had earlier in May this year submitted the first status report on the Gujarat riots.

When contacted by, a top official involved with the SIT said the report was in a sealed cover and not for public disclosure.

The SIT’ had earlier sought the apex court’s permission for further investigations into the alleged involvement of former Gujarat minister G Zadafia and M K Tandon, a senior police officer, besides two other policemen in the killing of Jafri.

–Agencies