A special SIT court in Ahmedabad on Friday sentenced 11 convicts to life imprisonment in the case of burning alive of 69 people, including former Congress MP Eshan Jafri, in the 2002 post-Godhra violence.
The court awarded ten-year jail term to one of the 13 convicted for lesser offences while 12 others have been given seven-year sentence each.
Tanvir Jafri, the son of Gulbarg massacre case victim former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri’s said there was definitely “some sense of closure” at the convictions but also expressed concern over those acquitted.
“We will definitely contest some of the acquittals in the High Court,” Tanvir Jafri said.
Former SIT chief R K Raghavan who had probed the incident, welcomed the judgement.
Zakia Jafri, the wife of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri who was among the 69 killed in Gulbarg society massacre, on Friday expressed dissatisfaction over the verdict in the case, saying the court did “injustice” to her.
She also said that she will approach the high court against the verdict of the special SIT court which on Friday sentenced 11 convicts to life imprisonment in the case.
Zakia is particularly unhappy with the seven-year jail term awarded to 12 convicts and 10-year sentence to one other convict, who were held guilty for lesser offences not including murder. She is also upset with the acquittal of 36 others in the case. (Inputs: PTI)
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