New Delhi, Jan 28: The Supreme Court of India today granted bail to 17 convicts sentenced to life imprisonment in 2002 Gujarat massacre case, pending their appeal before the Supreme Court.
The convicts also have to participate in social and spiritual services, said the court, announcing the riders for bail.
The Bench of Chief Justice of India SA Bobde and Justices BR Gavai and Surya Kant directed for the convicts to be segregated into two groups to be sent to Indore and Jabalpur.
District legal authorities in Indore and Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh have been asked to ensure that the convicts do the spiritual and social work the court has asked for.
The Supreme Court has also asked the administration to find them work for livelihood. The state legal services authority has been asked to file a compliance report as also report on their conduct.
The case concerns the mass killing of 33 innocent Muslims - mostly women and children - who were burnt alive at Sardarpura village in March 2002.
This was part of the mass massacre that swept through Gujarat in the aftermath of the death of train passengers on Sabarmati Express in Godhra on Feb 27, 2002. Thousands of innocent Muslims were killed and raped in the three-day violence. The victims include hundreds of children including newborns.
In 2016, the Gujarat High Court had upheld the conviction of 17 accused in the Sardarpura massacre case.
Earlier, a Special SIT court had convicted a total of 31 persons in the case, after three years of trial against 73 persons from Sardarpura and nearby villages.
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Write letter PM, not to CM....these people BJP 2nd team...drama
Hindu have no problem to eat cow according to Vedas.....these all politics..
Yes ban ban ban ban.. ban export too!!
when you become animal, than the love for animal is increase & love for Mankind descreses!!!
one of the biggest fraud religion in front of GOD is "HINDU RELIGION"
name itself given by outsider & some swamiji take this as business. we can see nowdays with crores of turnover and politician taking advantage and playing with emotion of people
the True religion of india is "VEDIC RELIGION"
concept is very simple only worship one GOD
you can eat beef or not its your choice. but you should good to mankind & work for betterment of society.
Why these swamys dont request PM to dont kill cows and export foreign countries.Is there holy cows and non-holy cows ?
It is the act of criminal if they are the really reiigious such kind of behaviour they should not do. A insult to Hindu religion.
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