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CLICK HERE TO SEE DATE WISE CURRENT AFFAIRS  General Studies-02 Gujarat HC rejects Zakia Jafri’s plea challenging lower court order upholding clean chit to Modi News: The Gujarat High Court on Thursday, October 5 dismissed the plea of Zakia Jafri, wife of slain ex-MP Ehsan Jafri, callenging the Secial Ivestigation Team’s clean chit to Narendra Modi and others pertaining to “larger conspiracy” behind the 2002 riots in which more than 1000 people were massacred in Gujarat. Beyond News: The court upheld the magisterial court’s verdict, accepting the Supreme Court-appointed SIT’s closure report giving clean chit to the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others, citing lack of “prosecutable evidence” against them. However, the court has held that the petitioner Zakia, whose ex parliamentarian husband late Ehsan Jafri was among the…

CLICK HERE TO SEE DATE WISE CURRENT AFFAIRS  General Studies-02 Can India protect Rohingya, SC asks govt. SC View point: Can India protect a large section of humanity comprising Rohingya women, children, the sick and the old who are “really suffering”?This is the question the Supreme Court wants the government to answer. Government view point: The government said the crisis over its move to deport 40,000 Rohingya was not “justiciable”, that is, the issue outside the Supreme Court’s domain. communication to all the States to identify Rohingya and aid in their deportation was based on certain “executive parameters” such as diplomatic concerns, on whether the country can sustain such an influx of refugees and geographically whether there would be tensions and threat to national security. It denied saying all Rohingya…