In the 2002 Naroda Patiya case, Gujarat High Court sentenced 10 years of rigorous imprisonment to three more convicts on Monday.
As many as 97 people were killed a day after the incidence of Godhra train carnage in which 57 kar-sevaks charred to death inside S6 coach of Sabarmati Express by miscreants near Godhra Railway Station on February 27, 2002. The case was initially probed by the Gujarat Police, which charged 46 people for the massacre. However, in 2008, Supreme Court ordered an SIT to probe the incident, wherein it was stated that a huge mob of anywhere between 1500-5000 people attacked the residents of the Naroda Patiya area.
On Monday, the court sent convicts Umesh Bharwad, Padmendrasinh Rajput and Rajkumar Chaumal, to 10 years of RI, a fine of Rs 1,000 each. All the three too were acquitted by special court earlier in 2012.
A special SIT court had sentenced 32 people in connection of the case in August 2012. The prominent being former Gujarat Minister Maya Kodnani, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for 28 years, while another main accused Babu Bajrangi was given life imprisonment till death with a condition of remission.