New Delhi: The Gujarat Government today (April 21, 2004) requested the Supreme Court to modify its order to transfer the Best Bakery case trial from Gujarat to Maharashtra, saying the retrial outside the State is not justified as it was not an issue before the apex court.

During hearing of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)'s petition for transfer of 12 more cases from the State, Additional Solicitor General Mukul Rohatagi told a Bench, headed by Chief Justice V N Khare, that the Gujarat Government's application has already been filed and it would come up for hearing before the Bench which ordered transfers and retrial of the Best Bakery case.