Supreme Court order no clean chit to Modi: Congress

''It will difficult to wipe off the blot on Narendra Modi. His character is known to the entire country. He was unable to the curb communal violence in Gujarat,” Congress spokesperson Rashid Alvi said.

"The Supreme Court order has in no way given any clean chit to Narendra Modi," the spokesperson said.

Alvi was speaking reporters on the Supreme Court order directing a trial court to hear a petition by Zakia Jafri, widow of former MP Ehsan Jafri who was killed in the Gulberg Society carnage during the 2002 riots.

The petition alleged deliberate inaction on part of the Gujarat chief minister, his cabinet colleagues and some high-ranking state officials.

In the 2002 incident, 37 people, including the former Congress MP Jafri, were killed. The rampaging mob targeted members of Muslim community in the Ahmedabad neighbourhood and set it afire.