A local court in Gandhinagar district acquitted 28 people accused of indulging in rioting, arson and damaging property in post Godhra communal trouble witnessed in the State of Gujarat in the year 2002.
The incident relates to damaging of a dargah in Paliyad village of Kalol taluka in Gandhinagar district of the state. The case also relate to burning of property belonging to minority community by a mob of over 250 a day after February 27, 2002, the day of torching of coach S-6 of Sabarmati Express by miscreants near Godhra Railway station killing 58 people.
The court stated that the offence could not be proven as not enough evidence was produced before it. Some of the witness had also turned hostile during the hearing of the case.