Ahmedabad: In some relief for former state minister Maya Kodnani, the Gujarat High Court has granted bail to her in the Naroda Patiya riots case. She had been granted bail earlier as well, on medical grounds for two months.
Kodnani, who was made the Gujarat minister of state for women and child development in 2007, resigned after she was arrested in the case in March 2009.
Kodnani along with Bajrang Dal's Babu Bajrangi was convicted in the 2002 Naroda Patiya massacre case. A special SIT court had in August 2012 sentenced her to 18 years life imprisonment in connection with the 2002 riots at Naroda Patiya where 97 people were brutally killed.
She will, however, have to serve 10 years in jail under section 326 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means) of IPC before her life sentence gets underway, thereby effectively getting a 28-year imprisonment.
Among 29 others convicted by the court, seven persons, including Babu Bajrangi, were given enhanced life term and they will have to first serve a 10-year term under section 326 before their life sentences begin whereas 22 others were given simple life imprisonment of 14 years.
The massacre had taken place a day after the Godhra train burning incident of February 27, 2002.
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