The Gujarat High Court today
adjourned the pronouncement of quantum of sentence of three convicts in the 2002 Naroda Patiya massacre case, after they prayed for an opportunity to make fresh arguments.
The division bench of Justices Harsha Devani and A S Supehia kept the matter for hearing on June 15 after the convicts made a submission that they were not properly represented, and needed their lawyers to argue afresh on the quantum of sentence.
P J Rajput, Rajkumar Chumal and Umesh Bharwad had been acquitted by the special SIT trial court along with 29 others in the verdict in 2012.
However, the high court, while hearing appeals, found these three guilty, while it upheld the acquittal of 29 others.
It had reserved the order on quantum of sentence for these three today.
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The trio are guilty of charges other than that under IPC section 302 (murder).
On April 20, the high court acquitted former BJP minister Maya Kodnani and upheld the conviction of ex-Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi in the riot case, related to massacre of 97 people, most of them from a minority community, in the Naroda Patiya area here during the post-Godhra riots of 2002.
The court convicted 16 people including Bajrangi and acquitted 18 others, including Kodnani.
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