PTI
 
Ahmedabad, Jul 8: Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, has sent a complaint to police against 63 people, including Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, asking the police to file an FIR and take against the accused in the Gulbarg society massacre during post-Godhra riots in 2002.

Thirty-eight persons, including Jafri, were killed in the massacre here on February 28, 2002.

In the complaint, Zakia accused all the 63 persons, including Modi, as being responsible for the Gulbarg society massacre.

"We have sent this complaint to Sector-21 police of Gandhinagar by post and have requested them to file an FIR against all the accused including Modi," said Tanvir Jafri, the son of the late MP.

"We have forwarded copies of this letter to Gujarat Home Secretary, Home Secretary and to the office of Director General of Police (in Gandhinagar)," he added.

"In the complaint running into over 100 pages we have asked the police to file an FIR against the accused based on the affadavits filed by some top police officials in the Nanavati Commission (which is probing the fire on Sabarmati Express and the post-Godhra riots of 2002).

"We have requested the police to probe the conspiracy to systematically target minorities by the state administration during the riots," Tanvir said.

"Officials like the former chief of intelligence, R B Sreekumar and former DSP of Bhavnagar Rahul Sharma (now CBI officer) had filed affidavits before Nanavati Commission which clearly shows the inaction of the administration in preventing the massacres of minorities," Tanvir said.

When asked why the family had asked for a second FIR to be registered in this case when an FIR in connection as already registered by the Ahmedabad police, Tanvir said, "The FIR lodged in 2002 was against the accused who attacked and killed minorities in Gulbarg society, while now we are asking the police to file FIR against those who had conspired behind the scenes," he added.

Others who have been named as accused in the complaint include several IPS and IAS officer and ministers of Modi's cabinet.

The Gulbarg Society massacre took place in 2002, on the day when the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) had called a bandh and was supported by the RSS and the BJP to protest against the burning of the Sabarmati Express at Godhra in which 59 persons, most of them Kar sevaks returning from Ayodhya, were killed.

In response to the bandh call, the mobs carried out attacks on localities in the city including Gulbarg society.