Today, twenty years after the carnage that claimed over 2,000 lives we must revisit the judgment that gave Evil a name. This judgment, in Zahira Habibullah Shaikh & Anr (Citizens for Justice and Peace) v/s State of Gujarat, 2004, the Supreme Court minced no words: “The modern day ‘Neros’ were looking elsewhere when Best Bakery and innocent children and women were burning, and were probably deliberating how the perpetrators of the crime can be saved or protected. Law and Justice become flies in the hands of these ‘wanton boys’. When fences start to swallow the crops, no scope will be left for survival of law and order or truth and justice.” For those who suffered there has been no closure instead majoritarian violence has since been tearing the country apart at regular intervals.