The appeals filed by SIT challenging the\u00a0designated court\u2019s order in post-Godhra Deepda Darwaza riots case, in which 11 persons, including nine women and children were killed has been admitted by the Gujarat High Court.<\/p>\n
A division bench of Justices M R Shah and S H Vora exempted the SIT for the delay in filing the appeals and admitted them.<\/p>\n
In its judgment on July 30, 2012, the designated judge S C Srivastava has awarded life imprisonment to 21 people and a year in jail to a retired police officer, while acquitting 61 others.<\/p>\n
SIT had filed the appeals challenging the judgment earlier this month, beyond the stipulated time limit of 90 days and hence it has also filed a separate application seeking court\u2019s permission to grant delay.<\/p>\n
In the appeals, the SIT has demanded that 21 accused convicted under section 307 (attempt to murder) of the IPC should be convicted for murder (under section 302 of IPC).<\/p>\n
It has also challenged the acquittal of 57 accused, who were given benefit of doubt by the designated court, on the grounds that there was a criminal conspiracy behind the incident which has resulted in the death of 11 members of a family.<\/p>\n
In the case of four other accused, who were acquitted by the court, a consent to file appeal was yet to be received from the state legal department as their whereabouts was not known and appeals against their acquittal has not been filed yet.<\/p>\n
Over a decade after the incident, designated judge had acquitted 61 of the 83 accused, including former BJP MLA Prahlad Gosa and ex-municipal president Dayabhai Patel, also of the same party.<\/p>\n
The designated court had dropped the charges of murder (section 302) and 120(B) (Criminal Conspiracy) of IPC against all the 21, who were awarded life imprisonment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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