Monday, 6 June 2016

Gulbarg Society Massacre: Hearing of Punishment Likely to Be Declared Today

Ahmadabad: The special SIT court that was established to investigate the proceedings of Gulbarg society massacre, today has deferred the pronouncement of the quantum of sentence to June 9. Also, the hearing has issued capital punishment for the 11 convicted of murder while the lawyer of the victims pleaded the court for life imprisonment for them.


Gulbarg society was attacked by a raging mob on 28 February 2002, during the Gujarat communal riot on the same year and brutally killed many of the residents of the residential complex, including former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri. On June 2 this year, the special court judge P.B. Desai had convicted 24 of the 66 accessed of the massacre.


Reports are that of the total 66 accused, six dies during the trial period. Among the 24 convicted, 11 have been charged with murder cases while rest of the 13, including VHP leader Atul Vaidya, have been convicted for ‘lesser offences.’



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