In another significant deposition before the specially-designated trial court in Ahmedabad, Rupa Mody, who lost her eight-year-old son in the 2002 Gulberg massacre, said Chief Minister Narendra Modi had not responded to pleas for help from slain Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, before the killings began.

Rupa lost her son Azhar during the Gulberg carnage, and her story had later inspired the popular Hindi film, Parzania. The film was not screened in Gujarat following widespread opposition against it by the saffron brigade in the state. Her deposition tallied with a similar one before the court by another eyewitness to the massacre, Imtiaz Pathan.

Rupa, who broke down several times during her deposition, told the court that on February 28, 2002 when Gulberg Society was under attack by the communal mob, Jafri had told her that he had called up Narendra Modi to get help but did not get any appropriate response.

Rupa had identified some of the accused in the case allegedly involved in conducting the carnage and instigating the mob. She also told the court how, after two-three months of the incident, the then police inspector of Meghaninagar Police Station K G Erda, who is also one of the accused in the case, made her sign an affidavit in his favour, in connivance with two other accused of the case, Dr Atul Vaidhya and Bharat Teli. She said the three had given her an assurance that they would help her find her missing son, Azhar.