NEW DELHI: The Gujarat High Court on Thursday discarded Zakia Jafri's plea in the hunt for investigation into and action against then-chief minister Narendra Modi and others for a larger conspiracy in the 2002 riots in the state.

Discarding the petition filed by Jafri and activist Teesta Setalvad's NGO Citizen for integrity and Peace, the high court ruled that there was "not a bigger conspiracy" in the riots.

The court, however, permitted Jafri to challenge the lower court's verdict, which said that it had no power to direct the SIT to look into the case further.

Jafri, whose husband, former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, was killed in the Gulbarg Society slaughter, had challenged a lower court order that sustained the clean chit given to Modi and other politicians and bureaucrats by the SC-appointed special investigation team (SIT).

The petition also hunted the high court's direction for clean investigation into the matter. The SIT submitted before the high court that its probe was conducted "under the Supreme Court's watchful eye," and that its report was largely accepted by all.

The SIT's closure report, filed on February 8, 2012, had given a uncontaminated chit to Modi and others. In December 2013, the metropolitan magistrate's court in Ahmedabad discarded Jafri's petition against the report, after which she went the high court in 2014.

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