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The Supreme Court, while upholding the Special Investigation Team's clean chit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Gujarat riots case, said that co-petitioner and activist Teesta Setalvad exploited the emotions of petitioner Zakia Jafri. A three-judge bench headed by Justice AM Khanwilkar on Friday said there is no merit in Zakia Jafri's petition while upholding the 2012 order passed by Gujarat magistrate accepting the SIT report. "Antecedents of Teesta Setalvad need to be reckoned with and also because she has been vindicively persecuting this lis [dispute] for her ulterior design by exploiting the emotions and sentiments of Zakia Jafri, the real victim of the circumstances," the apex court said in its order.