BJP MLA and former minister in the Narendra Modi government Maya Kodnani and Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi are among the 32 people convictedby a special court in the Naroda Patiya riots case on Wednesday Aug 29,2012, in which, 97 people belonging to the minority community were killed.
BJP MLA and former minister in the Narendra Modi government Maya Kodnani and Babu Bajrangi were held guilty under sections 120 B (criminal conspiracy) and 302 (murder) of India Penal Code (IPC) and the prosecution sought the maximum punishment of death sentence for all the convicts. The sections under which Kodnani and Bajrangi have been convicted carry the minimum sentence of life term and the maximum is death.
A special court will pronounce the quantum of punishment for 32 convicts in the 2002 post-Godhra Naroda Patiya riots case on Friday Aug 31,2012.
Naroda Patiya Riots Case
The Naroda Patiya massacre is the largest single case of mass murder during the 2002 Gujarat riots that broke out following the Sabarmati Express train carnage near Godhra station.
The case has been probed by a Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigating Team (SIT).
As many as 327 witnesses, comprising eye witnesses, victims, doctors, police personnel, government officials, forensic experts and journalists including Ashish Khetan, who conducted a TV sting operation on the accused, were examined by the court.
Initially, 46 people were arrested by the Gujarat Police, whereas 24 more people were apprehended after the probe was handed over to the SIT in 2008. In all, 70 people were arrested in the case.
Six persons died before the charges could be framed and trial started, while two others identified as Mohan Nepali and Tejas Pathak jumped bail and are still absconding.
Naroda Patiya Riots Case Judgement
Special judge Jyotsana Yagnik delivered a 1900 page order announcing the quantum of sentence for 32 accused who were convicted on Wednesday Aug 29,2012.
Judge Jyotsna Yagnik dubbed communal riots as "a cancer on constitutional secularism" and Maya Kodnani the "kingpin" of the Naroda Patiya carnage and sentenced her to 18 years life imprisonment.Maya Kodnani will, however, have to serve 10 years in jail under section 326 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means) of IPC before her life sentence gets underway, thereby effectively getting a 28-year imprisonment.
Babu Bajrangi, leader of Bajrang Dal's moral police who was often caught on the wrong side of the law, will spend the rest of his life in jail.
7 other accused have been given enhanced life imprisonment and they will have to first serve a 10-year term under section 326 before their life sentences begin.
22 others have been handed down simple life imprisonment of 14 years.
BJP MLA and former minister in the Narendra Modi government Maya Kodnani and Babu Bajrangi were held guilty under sections 120 B (criminal conspiracy) and 302 (murder) of India Penal Code (IPC) and the prosecution sought the maximum punishment of death sentence for all the convicts. The sections under which Kodnani and Bajrangi have been convicted carry the minimum sentence of life term and the maximum is death.
A special court will pronounce the quantum of punishment for 32 convicts in the 2002 post-Godhra Naroda Patiya riots case on Friday Aug 31,2012.
Naroda Patiya Riots Case
The Naroda Patiya massacre is the largest single case of mass murder during the 2002 Gujarat riots that broke out following the Sabarmati Express train carnage near Godhra station.
The case has been probed by a Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigating Team (SIT).
As many as 327 witnesses, comprising eye witnesses, victims, doctors, police personnel, government officials, forensic experts and journalists including Ashish Khetan, who conducted a TV sting operation on the accused, were examined by the court.
Initially, 46 people were arrested by the Gujarat Police, whereas 24 more people were apprehended after the probe was handed over to the SIT in 2008. In all, 70 people were arrested in the case.
Six persons died before the charges could be framed and trial started, while two others identified as Mohan Nepali and Tejas Pathak jumped bail and are still absconding.
Naroda Patiya Riots Case Judgement
Special judge Jyotsana Yagnik delivered a 1900 page order announcing the quantum of sentence for 32 accused who were convicted on Wednesday Aug 29,2012.
Judge Jyotsna Yagnik dubbed communal riots as "a cancer on constitutional secularism" and Maya Kodnani the "kingpin" of the Naroda Patiya carnage and sentenced her to 18 years life imprisonment.Maya Kodnani will, however, have to serve 10 years in jail under section 326 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means) of IPC before her life sentence gets underway, thereby effectively getting a 28-year imprisonment.
Babu Bajrangi, leader of Bajrang Dal's moral police who was often caught on the wrong side of the law, will spend the rest of his life in jail.
7 other accused have been given enhanced life imprisonment and they will have to first serve a 10-year term under section 326 before their life sentences begin.
22 others have been handed down simple life imprisonment of 14 years.
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