Godhra Carnage Case

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  Accused In 2002 Godhra Train Burning Case Gets Life Imprisonment

  A court in Godhra has sentenced to life imprisonment an accused in the case of Godhra train carnage in 2002 in which 59 'karsevaks' were killed, which had triggered worst riots in the history of Gujarat.

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  Lalu Yadav Tried To Paint Godhra Train Carnage As "Accident": Amit Shah

  Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday accused former railway minister Lalu Prasad Yadav of trying to paint the Godhra train carnage of 2002 as an accident and not a conspiracy by appointing a new committee to probe into it.

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  Gujarat: 2002 Godhra Train Burning Case Convict Dies In Hospital During Treatment

  A convict in the 2002 Godhra train carnage case, who was serving life sentence at a central jail in Gujarat's Vadodara, died while undergoing treatment at a hospital, an official said on Saturday.

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  Godhra Train Carnage Convict Dies Of Poor Health In Gujarat: Police

  Haaji Bilal, one of the convicts in the infamous 2002 Sabarmati train carnage in the Godhra case, died of poor health at a hospital in Vadodara on Friday, said the police.

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  2 Sentenced To Life In Godhra Train Burning Case, 3 Acquitted

  Two accused were awarded life imprisonment by a special SIT court today in the 2002 Godhra train carnage case in which 59 'karsevaks' were burnt alive in two coaches of the Sabarmati Express.

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  Godhra Carnage Was Not An Act Of Terrorism: High Court

  The Gujarat High Court, in its judgement on the 2002 Godhra carnage, has upheld the conspiracy theory but said the crime of the 11 convicts whose death sentence was commuted to rigorous life imprisonment was neither terrorism nor an act of waging war against the state.

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  Another Godhra Train Carnage Accused Arrested After 13 Years

  On the run for more than 13 years, another accused in 2002 Godhra train attack that had triggered communal riots was arrested on Monday by Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) in the third arrest of an absconding accused in the case in less than a fortnight.

• Three convicts get bail in Godhra train carnage case

  The Gujarat High Court granted bail to three people who were sentenced to life imprisonment in the 2002 Godhra train burning case which had triggered communal riots in the state.

• Godhra case: 11 get death sentence, life terms for 20

  Eleven people have been sentenced to death for their role in setting a compartment of the Sabarmati Express on fire in February, 2002. Another 20 people have been sentenced to life in prison.Fifty nine passengers died in the attack at the Godhra train station near Ahmedabad. Bogey S-6 was packed with kar sevaks returning from a trip to Ayodhya. The...

• Godhra judgement on February 19

  The judgement on the Godhra carnage case, where 58 people were burnt to death triggering massive communal riots across Gujarat, will be pronounced on February 19, nearly nine years after the incident took place.Designated judge P R Patel, who completed hearing the arguments of the prosecution and the defence in September last year, will pronounce t...

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  Hanif was lured by LeT to carry out blasts

  Mohammed Hanif Sayyed, sentenced to death for carrying out the 2003 twin blasts in Mumbai at the instance of Laskhar-e-Toiba (LeT), was an auto rickshaw driver. Hanif (46) left for Saudi Arabia in 1992 as a catering assistant on a salary of 700 Riyal. He worked there till 1994 and returned to Mumbai. Thereafter, he was plying a rented auto ricksha...