Ahmedabad, June 3: Nishrin Jafri Hussain, daughter of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri who was burnt alive with 68 others during the 2002 Gujarat violence, is disappointed at yesterday's court verdict like most other relatives of the victims.

The trial court convicted only 24 people in the Gulbarg Housing Society massacre, acquitting 36 and exonerating all 60 of conspiracy charges.

When the attack happened, Nishrin and her husband were in the US, where the couple live, she an employee with a private company and he a professor.

Nishrin has in a Facebook post expressed dismay that the court found no evidence of conspiracy. It's a sentiment shared by almost every Gulbarg survivor and witness.

"If there was no pre-planning, how did the attackers arrange for swords and tridents and collect petrol and kerosene? Why did the police take no action?" asked Firoz Khan Pathan, who lived next door to Jafri and lost 10 members of his family.

According to Jafri's son Tanvir, the former MP had called up senior officials and politicians as the mob gathered, but in vain.

Firoz's father Imtiaz is upset that two of the main accused - local BJP councillor Bipin Patel and the then local inspector, K.G. Erada - have been acquitted.

Witnesses had deposed in court that Patel had carried a can of petrol and led the mob and that Erada had ordered his team not to restrain the attackers.

Imtiaz said he couldn't understand how only 11 people had been found guilty of murder, with the 13 other convicts being nailed for lesser offences like arson.

"Most of the victims died because the mob set the buildings on fire," he said. "So why don't they (alleged arsonists) face the same charges?"

Jafri's wife Zakia had yesterday vowed to continue her "fight" for justice, while social activist Teesta Setalvad had spoken about a possible appeal against the judgment.

A petition from Zakia and Teesta had prompted the Supreme Court in 2008 to order that a special investigation team (SIT) should probe nine of the main riot cases. Of these, only one - the Naroda Dam case - awaits a verdict.

Hearing the same petition, the apex court had also asked the SIT to probe the possible involvement of top officials and ministers, including then chief minister Narendra Modi, in a larger conspiracy.

Some of those acquitted yesterday, including Patel, have threatened to sue Teesta on the charge of tutoring the witnesses to give false evidence. Nishrin thanked Teesta in her Facebook post but feared the activist would continue to be targeted after the verdict.

Teesta has been embroiled in several cases, ranging from embezzlement to violation of foreign contribution rules by her NGO.