The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the infamous Gujarat riots of 2002 has found no evidence against Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the Gulbarg Society massacre case, an Ahmedabad court confirmed during a hearing on a related matter on Tuesday.



The SIT clean chit to Modi was evident when the court said that the probe panel had filed a closure report. The court also ordered that Zakia Jafri, the widow of slain Congress leader Ehsan Jafri, be given a copy of SIT report after 30 days.



Zakia is the petitioner in one of the nine riots cases which the Supreme Court ordered the SIT to probe.



The case relates to the killing of 69 people by a riotous mob on February 28, 2002 at the Gulbarg Housing Society in Ahmedabad where the Jafris lived. Zakia had pleaded that Modi and several senior ministers and officials did nothing to prevent the killings.



The SIT, headed by R.K. Raghavan, said there was no evidence to make a case against Modi. Zakia said she was saddened by the SIT's findings.