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Gandhinagar, Sep 12 (IANS) After Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s tweet of “God is great”, state government spokesperson Jaynarayan Vyas Monday expressed happiness at the Supreme Court’s order on Zakia Jafri’s petition sending the entire matter to the trial court for the onward process of law.

“Through the entire course of events leading up to the setting up of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) by the apex court, its investigations and also the subsequent report of the amicus curie, not a shred of evidence has emerged on the involvement of the chief minister or that of a political conspiracy,” he added.

Vyas said that it effectively gives a lie to the “misleading propaganda” being initiated at the behest of some NGOs seeking to defame the government and the chief minister. “Had these NGOs not created such a ruckus on the issue, the victims would already have got justice,” he added.

Vyas sought to make it clear that it was “the earnest desire of the state government to see that justice is done to the victims and we shall help in every measure possible to this end”.

Earlier Zakia Jafri, widow of Congress MP Ehsan Jafri who was among the 69 who perished in the Gulberg society massacre in Ahmedabad following the Godhra riots, expressed her unhappiness. “I have faith in the Indian judiciary, but I am not satisfied with the decision of the Supreme Court. We had a lot of expectations from the apex court. If it can’t give us justice then how will the lower court help us get justice,” she said.

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a trial court would hear the petition by Zakia Jafri, who alleged deliberate inaction on the part of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in preventing the killing of her husband Ehsan Jafri and dozens of others in Ahmedabad’s Gulberg Society during the 2002 riots.