Accusing Modi of allowing the ethnic cleansing of Muslims in the state as its Chief Minister in 2002, the Council of Indian Muslims, UK, said Modi has reportedly accepted an invitation to address “India Summit 2009” being organised by Dow Jones Financial News in London in May this year.

In a letter addressed to British Home Secretary Ms Jacqui Smith, Chairman of the Council of Indian Muslims, K, Mohammad Munaf Zeena said Modi was responsible for Gujarat genocide and posed danger to inter-communal relations in the UK.

Citing the revocation of Modi's visa by the US in 2005 as an example the letter read: “... It is widely believed that following US example in 2005 the British Government had also advised the Indian government to cancel Modi's trip to London.”

Referring to Genocide Convention 1957, Rome Statue of the International Criminal Court 1998 and “a number of resolutions by the United Nations Security Council and the General Assembly” to which Britain is a signatory, the letter emphasised: “United Kingdom is thus obligated under international law to ensure that a person against whom there is evidence that they have committed international crimes is subject to tracing, arrest, trial and if found guilty, to punishment, particularly if he is found in UK soil.

Such obligation is even more compelling if victims of the crimes are British citizens - and in this case two members of the Dawood family, both British citizens have been killed.”

The letter also deplores some of the British MPs who have shown support for Modi in the past and said that British Muslims are outraged “...to witness a mass murderer being allowed to be welcomed on British soil and even see the disgusting rather shameless behaviour of 17 British MPs signing an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons initiated by Barry Gardiner praising “Vibrant Gujarat”.