13yercelebration
ঢাকা
আজকের সর্বশেষ সবখবর

Gujarat riots case: Amit Shah tells court Maya Kodnani was with him in Assembly, not Naroda Gam

admin
September 18, 2017 8:46 pm
Link Copied!

Eleven Muslims were killed during the state-wide communal riots in Gujarat in 2002. A total of 82 persons are facing trial in the case.

THE NEWS DESK:
1Amit Shah appears in court in a Gujarat riots case.
2Shah appeared as defense witness in case against Maya Kodnani.
3Kodnani was a state minister during the 2002 riots.
Appearing as Maya Kodnani’s witness in the 2002 Naroda Gam massacre case, BJP president Amit Shah today told the special SIT court that she was with him in Gujarat Assembly on the day, and not in the Ahmedabad locality where 11 Muslims were killed.

“Maya Kodnani was not present in Naroda Gam. She was inside the state Assembly at 8.30 am,” Shah, who finally appeared before the special SIT court in Ahmedabad as Kodnani’s defence witness, said.
“From 9:30 am to 9:45 am, I was at the Civil Hospital and I met Maya Kodnani there. I was surrounded by people when I left hospital. Maya Kodnani and I were taken to our respective cars in police jeep. It was 11-11:15 am that time,” Shah said.

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) court is hearing the 2002 Naroda Gam riot case, in which 11 Muslims were killed during the state-wide communal riots following the burning of a train allegedly by Muslims in Godhra. Kodnani, a former Gujarat minister, is the main accused.

The massacre is one of the nine major 2002 communal riots cases which were investigated by the SIT. A total of 82 persons are facing trial in the case.

KODNANI DIDN’T HAVE SHAH’S ADDRESS

Earlier, Kodnani had failed twice to give the address to which the summons to Shah were to be issued. She was given four days each time to find out and submit the address on which the court summons could be issued to Shah. The court had finally said it will not re-issue the summons in case Shah fails to present himself today.

Kodnani, in her application to prove her innocence, said that on the day of incident she had visited Sola civil hospital after attending the state Legislative Assembly. She claimed in the application that Shah, who was an MLA at that time, was also present at the Sola civil hospital, where bodies of ‘karsevaks’ killed in the Sabarmati train burning incident were brought from Godhra.

Kodnani, who was then a minister in the Narendra Modi-led state government , has already been convicted and sentenced to 28 years in jail in the case of riot at Naroda Patiya where 97 people were massacred.

Three weeks back, the Supreme Court had asked the SIT court to conclude the trial within four months.

http://www.anandalokfoundation.com/