New Delhi: Senior Congress leader and lawyer Kapil Sibal got emotional while hearing a petition filed in the apex court by Zakia Jafri, wife of late Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, over Gujarat riots in 2002. The petition has been filed against the closure report of the SIT probing the Gujarat riots. In which a clean chit was given to the then Gujarat CM Narendra Modi and other top officials.

Senior advocate Kapil Sibbal, who argued in the apex court on behalf of Zakia Jafri, was moved by the country's partition. He said, "I have also lost my loved ones in Pakistan during partition. I don't want to blame anyone. Just a message should go to the world that such incidents of violence cannot be tolerated. In court, Kapil Sibbal said that communal violence is like volcanic lava that prepares fertile land for revenge in the near future. My concern is really for the future. Sibal said communal violence is like a wave emanating from volcanoes, irrespective of community. It is institutional violence.

Jafri has challenged the Gujarat High Court's decision of October 5, 2017, to justify the Ahmedabad metropolitan magistrate court's decision to accept the closure report of the SIT. SIT had given a clean chit to the then Gujarat CM Narendra Modi and 63 others in the case.

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