The Supreme Court on Monday asked Raghavan Committee, a special a special panel formed by it to look into Modi's role of Naredra Bhai Modi in 2002 Gujarat riots.
Court also asked the panel to investigate the role of 50 other politicians and government officials who allegedly aided and abetted statewide communal riots that sparked throughout the state after Godhra incident.
A bench of Justices Arijit Pasayat and Asok Kumar Ganguly directed the panel headed by former Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) director R.K. Raghavan to particularly look into the allegations that Modi was involved in the killing of an MP in Ahmedabad's Gulbarga Society arson case.
More than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed in Gujarat in a frenzy of reprisals after the Godhra incident, in which 59 Hindus were torched alive by suspected Muslims in a train carriage.
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