Naroda Patiya case: Togadia, BJP welcome Maya Kodnani's acquittal; updates

While Kodnani was acquitted, Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi's sentence in the 2002 Naroda Patiya riot case was upheld by the Gujarat High Court

The Gujarat High Court on Friday acquitted former BJP minister Maya Kodnani but upheld the conviction of former Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi in the 2002 Naroda Patiya riot case in which 97 people were killed by a mob. The high court upheld conviction of 13 people including Bajrangi, and convicted another three for the first time, while acquitting 18 of the 32 people convicted by the trial court in 2012.

In 2002, Kodnani was a BJP MLA and the trial court had said she was the "kingpin" of the Naroda Patiya killings, one of the worst incidents of violence