Guj govt asks SIT not to seek death penalty for Kodnani

September 15, 2013 17:46

The Gujarat government has refused permission to the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team to file an appeal in a higher court seeking death penalty for former minister Maya Kodnani in the Naroda Patiya riot case.

This was decided on the basis of Advocate General Kamal Trivedi's opinion that there was "no direct evidence" against her. Kodnani and Bajrang Dal activist Babu Bajrangi, along with 30 others, were convicted for life in the 2002 post-Godhra Naroda Patiya riot case, in which 96 people were killed.

"The state legal department, on the basis of the advocate general's opinion, has taken a decision not to file an appeal against the special court's order and not to seek death penalty for Maya Kodnani," Prashant Desai, who has been appointed special prosecutor for SIT in the Gujarat high court for the case, told PTI today.

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