Godhra train burning case: Two sentenced to life imprisonment, three others acquitted
Ahmedabad, Aug 28 (IBNS): Two accused were awarded life imprisonment while three others were acquitted by a special SIT court on Monday in connection with 2002 Godhra train burning case, media reports said.
In the train carnage, 59 people were burnt alive in two coaches of Sabarmati Express.
Hussain Suleman Mohan, Kasam Bhamedi and Faruk Dhantiya were acquitted.
Eight accused in the case are still absconding.
In 2011, the special SIT court had convicted 31 people in connection with the case.
Among 31, eleven people were given death sentence while the rest was awarded life imprisonment.
In 2017, the Gujarat High Court had commuted the death sentence of 11 convicts to life imprisonment.
Around 1,000 supporters of prime accused Maulvi Umarjihad had attacked the coach at the Godhra station and torched it killing 59 people and injuring many.
The incident sparked the infamous Gujarat riots of 2002 that left hundreds of people, mostly minority Muslims, dead, injured and brutalized as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) then led by Narendra Modi as CM was pilloried for the violence.
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