The Supreme Court , on 26 March 2008 , ordered the Narendra Modi government to re-investigate ten cases in the 2002 Gujarat riots , including the Godhra train burning and subsequent Godhra riots , where 81 people were killed , Gulbarg Society where 68 were killed , Naroda Patia where over 100 were killed , Sardarpur where 34 were killed and Best Bakery case where 14 people were burnt alive . Zakiya Jafri , wife of Ehsan Jafri , who was burnt alive on the day , first made the complaint on 8 June 2006 alleging that the police had not registered the FIRs against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi , and 62 others including several ministers and alleging a conspiracy to allow the massacre of Muslims , which involved instructing policemen and bureaucrats not to respond to pleas for help from Muslims being attacked during the riots . The complaint included VHP leaders Praveen Togadia and Jaideep Patel , DGP of the state PC Pande for abetting the riots . She then approached the Gujarat High Court with her complaint , which on 3 November 2007 , refused to entertain her plea , and instead asked her to present the case before magistrate 's court . Subsequently , she approached the Supreme Court of India , which on 27 April 2009 appointed a five-member Special Investigation Team ( SIT ) headed by R. K. Raghavan , a former head of the CBI , to investigate into these cases , and asked the SIT to look into her complaint of alleged collusion of the state machinery and the rioters over the two days of Gujarat riots
Godhra train burning
Godhra train burning
Gulbarg Society massacre