The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted bail to the four jailed for the Naroda Patiya massacre case in Gujarat expressing doubt at their conviction.<\/p>\n
In one of the worst instances of communal rioting in Gujarat in 2002 following the Godhra train burning which killed 59 Hindu passengers, 97 Muslims had been attacked and killed by a mob at Naroda Patiya, close to Ahmedabad, on 2002, February 28.<\/p>\n
The Supreme Court granted bail to the four convicted \u2013 Umeshbhai Bharwad, Harshad and Prakashbhai Rathod and Rajkumar stating that the \u2018conviction order is debatable\u2019.\u00a0The top court added that it was \u2018seized\u2019 by appeals of others convicted in the case.<\/p>\n
The four jailed had been convicted by the Gujarat High Court for arson and rioting and have been serving ten years of rigorous imprisonment since June last year.<\/p>\n
Sixteen people had been convicted by the High Court, including Babu Bajrangi. Among those acquitted was former BJP minister Maya Kodnani. Finding that the offences were \u2018not against individuals but society at large\u2019, the High Court had noted in its sentencing on June 25 that a \u2018lenient punishment\u2019 would be tantamount to a \u2018travesty of justice\u2019. Any \u2018liberal attitude\u2019 in this regard would be \u2018counter-productive\u2019 as they were offences that result in \u2018polarising society\u2019, the court had added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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