Fourteen years after 69 people were killed in Ahmedabad’s Gulbarg Society by a rioting mob, a special court in Ahmedabad pronounced its verdict in the case. The court convicted 24 people and acquitted 36 others in the case. Out of the 24, 11 have been convicted on charges of murder.
BJP corporator Bipin Patel and police inspector KG Erda are among those acquitted.
A total of 338 witnesses testified during the trial of the case, which ran for over six years.
The Gulbarg Society case is one of the nine cases of the 2002 Gujarat riots probed by the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT). There are 66 people named by SIT in this case of whom nine are behind bars for 14 years while others are out on bail.
In the incident that had taken place at the Gulbarg Society on February 28, 2002, 69 persons were killed.
The incident had taken place a day after S-6 coach of Sabarmati Express train was set on fire near Godhra railway station in which 58 ‘karsevaks’ from Ayodhya were killed.
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