Gulberg society massacre: 24 convicted, 36 acquitted

June 2, 2016

Ahmedabad, Jun 2: A special SIT court today convicted 24 and acquitted 36 as it pronounced its verdict in connection with a 2002 post-Godhra riots case of the Gulberg Society in which 69 persons including former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri were killed.

GulbergSpecial Court Judge P B Desai delivered the judgement over eight months after the trial concluded on September 22, 2015. The Supreme Court, which was monitoring the case, had directed the SIT court to give its verdict by May 31.

Bipin Patel, who is a sitting BJP corporator from Asarva seat was acquitted by the court. He was also the corporator in 2002 when the massacre happened and won the election for a fourth consecutive term last year.

Of the 66 accused named by the SIT in the case, nine are behind bars for 14 years, while others are out on bail.

Last week, the court had turned down pleas moved by two accused--Narayan Tank and Babu Rathod--to conduct narco analysis and brain mapping tests on them to prove their innocence. The court maintained that it was not required when the verdict was imminent.

During the trial, riots victim's lawyer had argued that the massacre was a pre-planned criminal conspiracy hatched by the accused to kill minority community members of the Gulberg Society.

The defence had refuted the conspiracy theory of prosecution and claimed that the mob resorted to violence only after slain Congress MP Eshan Jafri fired several rounds on them.

The Gulberg Society case is one of the nine cases of the 2002 Gujarat riots probed by the Supreme Court appointed SIT.

The incident had taken place a day after S-6 coach of the Sabarmati Express was burnt near the Godhra train station, where in 58 'karsevaks' were killed.

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Naren kotian
 - 
Thursday, 2 Jun 2016

Why they acquitted who killed innocent kids and women in train ..third rated Muslims ..we need death sentence for 5000 Muslims for instigating riots in gujarath..soola maklu madidre they honoured perfect manual antbe ...evidence sigada haage entire Jana na Udaisi bidbekuthu ..traitor community ...

hameed
 - 
Thursday, 2 Jun 2016

Leaders are all out of the case. Some followers only get the imprisonment.
Not a convincing judgement.

OUR GREAT INDIAN JUDICIARY !

kashi bopanna
 - 
Thursday, 2 Jun 2016

BJP corporator BipinPatel acquitted, true face of BJP.

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Bengaluru, Feb 12: Mohammed Nalapad, son of Karnataka Congress MLA NA Harris, who allegedly rammed his sports car into vehicles and a kiosk, injuring 4, on Bellary road in Bengaluru on February 9, said that he was not in the car which met with the accident.

Bengaluru Joint Commissioner of Police, Traffic, Ravikante Gowda told media, "Mohammed Nalapad appeared before the investigating officer today. He was arrested following interrogation. We are collecting evidence and will file a charge sheet shortly."

Nalapad is out on bail, in connection with the matter where he had assaulted a man in a pub in Bengaluru in 2018.

"I was not in the car which met with accident. I was travelling in a Lamborghini car which was moving ahead of the car. However, I called people to rescue the victims. We took them to the hospital and paid their hospital bill," said Mohammed Nalapad.

Further, details are awaited

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