Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, representing Zakia Jafri, the wife of slain former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, told the Supreme Court that communal violence is like "lava erupting from a volcano", and "leaves the ground fertile for future revenge".

Jafri had moved the top court challenging the clean chit to then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and other high functionaries in the 2002 riots cases. Sibal, while arguing the matter before a bench headed by Justice AM Khanwilkar, turned emotional while pointing out that he lost his maternal grandparents to communal violence during the partition.