Gujarat former minister Maya Kodnani gets bail out of illness
- 5 years ago
Kodnani was convicted of orchestrating the massacre of 95 people during the Naroda Gam and Naroda Patiariots that followed the Godhra train burning in February 2002.Witnesses testified that she handed out swords to Hindu rioters, exhorted them to attack Muslims and at one point fired a pistol. Mobile phone records placing her at the scene of the riots were buried by the police. They were brought to light by the Nanavati Commission in 2004, and later investigated by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Supreme Court of India in 2008. She ignored notices for deposition by the SIT, which declared her an absconder in February 2009. She obtained an anticipatory bail from a sessions court, which was revoked by the Gujarat High Court on 27 March 2009, leading to her subsequent arrest.]
She was tried in the Naroda Patia massacre case and, on August 31, 2012, convicted of murder and conspiracy to commit murder and sentenced to 28 years in prison. The court judgement called her the "kingpin of the Naroda Patiya massacre." Kodnani continued to maintain her innocence, claiming that she was at the Sola Civil Hospital at the time of the riots meeting the relatives of Godhra victims.
On 17 April 2013, the Gujarat government decided to seek death penalty for Maya Kodnani by filing an appeal in the High Court against the Special Court’s judgement in the case. On May 14, 2013, the Gujarat government subsequently withdrew its decision to seek the death penalty for Maya Kodnani. In November 2013, she was granted an interim bail of 3 months for treatment of intestinal tuberculosis.
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She was tried in the Naroda Patia massacre case and, on August 31, 2012, convicted of murder and conspiracy to commit murder and sentenced to 28 years in prison. The court judgement called her the "kingpin of the Naroda Patiya massacre." Kodnani continued to maintain her innocence, claiming that she was at the Sola Civil Hospital at the time of the riots meeting the relatives of Godhra victims.
On 17 April 2013, the Gujarat government decided to seek death penalty for Maya Kodnani by filing an appeal in the High Court against the Special Court’s judgement in the case. On May 14, 2013, the Gujarat government subsequently withdrew its decision to seek the death penalty for Maya Kodnani. In November 2013, she was granted an interim bail of 3 months for treatment of intestinal tuberculosis.
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