At present, appeals of the convicts in Naroda Patiya riot case is being heard by the high court division bench of Justice Ravi Tripathi and Justice R D Kothari.
However, riot victims have written in to the Acting Chief Justice V M Sahai expressing their apprehensions.
"It is our most earnest request to the acting chief justice to transfer the above cases (appeals of the convicts in Naroda Patiya riot case) to some other division bench because we have reasons to believe that the division bench headed by justice Ravi Tripathi has made up its mind to allow the appeals and acquit the offenders," the letter reads.
The riot victims have also questioned the recent judgement by the same bench, which had granted bail to one of the convicts Kirpalsingh Chhabra on February 26.
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The division bench had then suspended the sentence of Chhabra, who was personal assistant of another convict and former state minister Maya Kodnani, till his appeal against the trial court order is pending before the high court.
The survivors also questioned the verdict of division bench, which had put doubts on the trial court's judgement of convicting Chhabra and 30 others.
Two convicts including Chhbra and Kodnani were granted bail in this case. Kodnani was released last year by the high court division bench comprising Justice V M Sahai and Justice R P Dholaria.
Naroda Patiya massacre, where 97 people were killed, had taken place a day after the Godhra train burning incident of February 27, 2002.