A special court in Ahmedabad has given verdict in the 2002 Godhra train burning case, convicting 31 people under Section 302 and 120 B

A special court in Ahmedabad has given verdict in the 2002 Godhra train burning case, convicting 31 people under Section 302 and 120 B of the Indian Penal Code and acquitting 63, including the main accused, Maulvi Umarji. Quantum of sentence will be announced on February 25.

The court pronounced judgment on the role of over 90 people accused of conspiring and burning the S-6 coach of the Sabarmati Express on February 27, 2002. Fifty-nine people, mostly Kar Sevaks returning from Ayodhya, were killed in the incident.



The court has upheld that there was a conspiracy behind the attack on the S-6 coach of the Sabarmati Express. The other theory was that it was a spontaneous riot situation fuelled by an altercation between Kar Sevaks and Muslim vendors at Godhra station in Gujarat. The Narendra ModiNarendra Modi government has for long argued that this was a pre-planned attack.