Former Gujarat minister and BJP leader Maya Kodnani and the Bajrang Dal's Babu Bajrangi are among 68 accused who have been acquitted in the Naroda Gam case during the 2002 Gujarat riots.
11 persons were killed in communal violence in Naroda Gam area of Ahmedabad city on February 28, 2002, during a bandh called to protest the Godhra train burning.
Ahmedabad/IBNS: Former Gujarat minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Maya Kodnani and Bajrang Dal's Babu Bajrangi are among over 60 accused who have been acquitted in the Naroda Gam case during the 2002 Gujarat riots.
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.