The Gujarat High Court said today that it would begin hearing details of the 2002 Naroda Patiya riot case charge sheet from tomorrow.
"We shall start (hearing details of the charge sheet) beginning from tomorrow,. It will show names of the accused in the charge sheet and there will be a concise history of the case," a two-judge bench, comprising Justice Mohinder Pal and Justice R D Kothari, said here.
The Gujarat High Court has started conducting final hearing on appeals by convicts including a former Gujarat minister Mayaben Kodnani and former Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Babu Bajrangi in the Naroda Patiya riot case, in which as many as 97 people of the minority community were killed.
When the FIR of the case was being read out in the court today, the High Court bench commented that the police had not named some of the accused in the riot case.
"All it can be said is that the police was not ready to file FIR against some persons. It may not be the case that they (victims) have not given their names but it was not written in the FIR," Justice Mohinder Pal of the bench said.
Justice Mohinder Pal's comment came when defence counsel Nirupam Nanavati was reading the FIR which did not include the names of some of accused persons who are convicted in the case like Maya Kodnani.
During the hearing of the case, Nirupam Nanavati, who appeared for Maya Kodnani, said that some victims had supported his client by filing an affidavit in the Supreme Court in 2003.
