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The Gujarat government gave \u00a0Rs 2000 as compensation to four key witnesses in the post-Godhra <span style=\"color: #800000;text-decoration: underline\"><strong>&#8216;Best Bakery&#8217; riots case<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The High Court had on Monday heavily relied upon the testimonies of the four employees of the bakery, who had received grievous injuries during the riots, to uphold life sentence to four accused in the &#8216;Best Bakery&#8217; riots case in which five others were acquitted for want of evidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><em>Compensation given to these witnesses is inadequate taking into consideration the ordeal they have undergone. Hence we direct Gujarat government to deposit compensation of Rs three lakh each to these four eyewitnesses,&#8221;<\/em> <\/span>a division bench of justices V M Kanade and P D Kode ordered.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Noting that a number of witnesses had turned hostile in the &#8216;Best Bakery&#8217; riots case, the court said it was high time that the state government developed a mechanism for providing protection to witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Relying on statements of four injured eyewitnesses\u2014<span style=\"color: #800000;text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Tufil Ahmed Siddiqui, Raees Khan, Shahzad Khan Pathan and Shailun Khan Pathan<\/strong><\/span>&#8212; the court had upheld the conviction and life sentence awarded to the four accused &#8211; Sanjay Thakkar, Bahadur Singh Chauhan, Sanabhai Baria and Dinesh Rajbhar.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0It had, however, reversed the conviction of five other accused &#8211; Rajubhai Baria, Pankaj Gosavi, Jagdish Rajput, Suresh alias Lalo Devjibhai Vasava and Shailesh Tadvi- after observing that no witnesses identified them as part of the mob that attacked Best Bakery and no specific role was attributed to them.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0On March 1, 2002, two days after the carnage in which 59 kar sevaks were burnt alive in <span style=\"color: #800000;text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Sabarmati Express at Godhra<\/strong><\/span>, a mob had attacked Best Bakery in Vadodara, looting and burning it down and killing 14 people. The mob targeted the Muslims taking shelter inside, including the Sheikh family which ran the bakery. Three Hindu workers employed at the bakery were also killed.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Apart from these four eyewitnesses, the bench also ordered a compensation of Rs 3 lakh to key prosecution witness Yasmeen Shaikh.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Yasmeen, who had testified against the accused during the trial, had filed an application in the High Court early this year seeking her evidence to be recorded again as she was &#8220;<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;text-decoration: underline\">tutored and misguided&#8221;<\/span><\/strong> by social activist <span style=\"color: #800000;text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Teesta Setalvad<\/strong><\/span> into giving false evidence against the accused.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Setalvad had also filed an intervening application asking the court to hear her views while deciding the appeals. Though the court had yesterday disposed of the appeals of the accused, it had kept its decision on Yasmeen and Setalwad&#8217;s applications pending.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0While dismissing both the applications, Justice Kanade said, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><em>&#8220;Yasmeen&#8217;s evidence is not trustworthy and hence there is no need to further make inquiries into her statement and delay the case. Since we have not made any observations against Teesta there is no need to hear her application.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Pointing out to the number of witnesses who turned hostile in the case, the bench said it was high time the state government developed a mechanism for providing protection to witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><em>&#8220;It is high time the state government evolves a machinery to protect witnesses in sensitive cases like this. 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