New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday sentenced eight people to life in prison in Gujarat’s Godra train arson case, based on their length of imprisonment (17-18 years) and their individual role in the crime. However, he refused bail for his four others, citing their role in the case.
Attorney General Tushar Mehta representing the Government of Gujarat is made up of India D.Y. Chandrachud and the Jury. Narasimha said he has had some trouble bailing the four defendants because of their role in the train arson case.
The defendant has been in prison for almost 17 years.
Mehta said he had resisted bail for his four defendants, recovering an iron pipe from one of them and a weapon with a sickle attached to a stick from another defendant. Mehta went on to say that another defendant bought, stored and transported the gasoline used to burn the bus and the last defendant attacked and looted the passengers.
Lead attorney Sanjay Hegde, on behalf of the petitioners, suggested that the court postpone hearings on the bail applications of the four prisoners whose bail had been denied by Mehta and grant bail to other prisoners.
Hegde further said he made the offer specifically because of the festival on Saturday, and two weeks later he asked the Chamber of Commerce to review the bail applications of the four inmates, asking them to I said it should be submitted on behalf of me.
Another senior attorney also asked the judge not to dismiss bail cases against the four defendants and to postpone hearings on their bail requests.
Mehta asked the court to deny the four inmates’ bail requests, adding that the court may reopen bail requests in about a year. After hearing the submissions, the Chamber granted bail to eight prisoners and denied bail to four prisoners.
At the end of the hearing, the Chamber of Commerce said on behalf of her eight petitioners who had granted bail:
“We are ordering them to be released on bail, subject to any conditions that may be imposed by the hearing court… On the final day of the hearing, the Supreme Court decided to grant bail to the two prisoners in this case. I refused.
The Gujarat government has moved the Supreme Court to question the commutation of death sentences to life imprisonment for 11 prisoners.
The Supreme Court has been informed that multiple defendants in this matter have challenged the Supreme Court’s order confirming their convictions in this case.
On December 15 last year, the Supreme Court granted bail to one of the defendants in the Godra train arson case following the 2002 communal riots in Gujarat. In January this year, the Supreme Court notified the state government of the bail requests of Abdul Raheman Dhantya aka Kankat, Abdul Sutter Ibrahim Gadi Asla and others.
On February 27, 2002, 59 people were killed when a vehicle of the Sabarmati Express was set on fire at Godra station in Gujarat. The incident sparked massive riots in Gujarat.
The district court ruled that in 2011 he convicted 31 defendants and acquitted 63.
This article is written by Shivangi, Christ university an intern under Legal Vidhiya
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