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| Court rules death for 11, 20 impris |
| Court rules death for 11, 20 imprisoned for life
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| INDIA
, 1-March-2011
1:45:42 AM |
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Of the 31 convicted by a special Godhra court last week for the Sabarmati carnage in February 2002, 11 were awarded the death penalty on Tuesday and 20 were imprisoned for life.
Last week, the special court had accepted the conspiracy theory behind the torching of coach S-6 of the Sabarmati Express on February 27, 2002 and convicted 31 undertrials for the crime while acquitting 63 others including main accused Maulvi Umarji.
Fifty nine people, mostly Vishwa Hindu Parishad members returning from Ayodhya, were killed in the carnage. The deaths triggered widespread communal riots in Gujarat.
The trial conducted inside the Sabarmati Central Jail here began in June 2009 with the framing of charges against the 94 accused.
The accused were charged with criminal conspiracy and murder.
As many as 253 witnesses were examined during the trial and over 1,500 documentary evidences were presented before the court by the Gujarat police.
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