Ahmedabad : years in Gujarat 2010 In the Naroda Gam riot case recently, a special court acquitted all the accused, including former state minister Maya Kodnani and former Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi. According to the news coming in the media quoting sources, now the Special Investigating Team (SIT) appointed by the Supreme Court will challenge the decision of the special court in the Gujarat High Court.

13 Verdict pronounced after one year

According to news agency Bhasha reports, the Ahmedabad-based court of Special Judge SK Bakshi dealing with the SIT cases including former Gujarat minister Maya Kodnani and former Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi to the accused was acquitted on April. During the post-Godhra riots in the Naroda Gam area of ​​Ahmedabad 04 ) This decision of the court came two decades after people were killed.

FINAL DECISION AFTER STUDY OF THE DECISION

The source said that the SIT will definitely file an appeal in the Gujarat High Court against the trial court’s verdict in the Naroda Gam case. The SIT is awaiting the copy of the court’s judgment and will take a final decision after studying the judgment. The Naroda Gam massacre is one of the nine major communal riots cases of 882 tried by special courts.

Out of the accused has died According to the report, SIT in Naroda Gam massacre case in 2017 Gujarat Had taken over the investigation from the police and arrested more than 20 people in the case Was. There were total accused in the case, out of whom 13 died during the trial, while one was convicted by the court under Section 104 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) was acquitted for lack of evidence. On the other hand, the lawyers of the victims’ families had said on the day of the verdict that they would challenge the decision of the special court in the High Court.

)13 Violence broke out in Naroda Gam on February 2017

According to media reports, during the shutdown called a day after the S-6 coach of the Sabarmati Express was set on fire by a mob near Godhra station 28 February, 2002 Riots broke out in Naroda Gam area of ​​Ahmedabad. At least 48 people were killed in the Godhra incident, most of whom were returning from Ayodhya. Karsevak was.

6393400563934005Amit Shah in the case had also testified

News agency Bhasha reports that the then President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Amit Shah in September, 2017 appeared in the trial court as a defense witness for former Gujarat minister Maya Kodnani. Maya Kodnani had requested the court to summon Amit Shah to prove that she was present in the Gujarat Assembly and later at the Sola Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad, and not at Naroda Gam, where the massacre took place. Six different judges have heard the case since it began in the year .