Link- http://www.microstat.in/11-get-life-in-jail-for-killing-69-in-gujarat-massacre/
Fourteen years after 69 people were massacred at a Muslim housing society here during the 2002 Gujarat riots, an Ahmedabad court on Friday sentenced 11 of the 24 convicts to life in prison, one man for 10 years and 12 others for seven years.
The quantum of punishment by the special court disappointed Zakia Jafri, the wife of Ehsan Jafri, a former MP who was among those brutally attacked and later burnt in the February 28, 2002 mass murder.
Pronouncing the punishment in a packed courtroom, Special SIT Court Judge P.B. Desai dubbed the day of the killings at the Gulberg Housing Society “the darkest day in the history of civil society”.
But he rejected the prosecution’s request to treat it as a “rarest of rare” case.
Judge Desai refused capital punishment to the convicts as sought by the prosecution and advocates for the victims saying it was beyond his court’s jurisdiction. The prosecution had argued that those murdered, including women and children, were all innocent.......................................................................................
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