In a Twitter comment on the second petition, Regulation Minister Kiren Rijiju said, “This can be how they waste the precious time of the Honourable Supreme Court, where thousands of common citizens are waiting and seeking dates with regard to justice. ”
Modi, who else aims for a third term in elections next year, was main minister of Gujarat in February 2002, when a suspected Muslim mob set open fire to a train having Hindu pilgrims.
The incident sparked one of the worst breakouts of religious bloodshed in independent Indian.
In reprisal attacks across the state at least 1, 500 people were killed, many of them Muslim, as crowds roamed the streets for days, targeting the particular religious minority. But activists put the cost at more than two times that, at about 2, 500.
Modi has denied accusations that he did not perform enough to stop the riots. He has been exonerated in 2012 subsequent an inquiry overseen by the Supreme Courtroom and a petition questioning his exoneration was dismissed last year.
The BBC has said the documentary was “rigorously researched” and involved a wide range of sounds and opinions, which includes responses from individuals in Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party.