The Supreme Court today granted six more months to a lower court in Gujarat to conclude trial in the 2002 Naroda Gam riots case, one of the nine post-Godhra riots matters probed by the apex court-appointed SIT pertaining to the killing of eleven members of a community.<br/><br/>A bench of Chief Justice T S Thakur and Justice A M Khanwilkar considered the submission of amicus curiae and senior advocate Harish Salve and SIT chief R K Raghavan, who is a former CBI chief, that the trial court should be granted more time as it has to examine nearly 300 witnesses.<br/><br/>Eleven persons belonging to the minority community were killed at Naroda Gam in 2002 riots during a bandh called in protest of the Godhra train burning incident. A total of 82 persons are facing trial in the case.<br/><br/>The apex court-appointed Special Investigation Team, SIT, has been probing nine major riots cases including the Gulberg society riots case and the Naroda Gam matter. The apex court has been monitoring these cases after the National Human Rights Commission and various NGOs termed the investigation into these as shoddy and unreliable.<br/><br/>The cases were about the riots in different parts of Gujarat, including the Gulberg Society, Ode, Sardarpura, Narodao Gaon, Naroda Patya, Machipith, Tarsali, Pandarwada and Raghavapura. An estimated 2,000 people were killed in post-Godhra riots in 2002.