A special court on Thursday acquitted all the 69 accused in the Naroda Gam communal riot case of 2002, in which eleven members of the Muslim community were killed. The accused included former Gujarat minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, Maya Kodnani, and Bajrang Dal leader, Babu Bajrangi, along with 84 others. Eighteen of the accused died in the intervening period.
The DU V-C had earlier said the punishment for the six students was to write a letter to the administration expressing that they are sorry and won’t repeat the act again.
The apex court constituted a new bench, consisting of Justices KM Joseph and BV Nagarathna, to hear a writ petition filed by Bilkis Bano as well as the pleas filed by several political and civil rights activists in the case.