The judgement delivered by a Special Court in the Gulberg Housing Society case, where 24 have been convicted, 10 of them for murder, though significant in itself in the context of other judgments delivered in the riot cases, is unlikely to bring solace to the families of the victims.
True, the verdict will be a very small consolation to the victims, but it can go some way towards restoring the primacy of the law. The wheels of justice should not stop here. There are lessons that can be drawn from this: It is important that the State prevents any violence of a communal nature and makes preventive arrests as and when required.