Gujarat's riot-tainted former minister denied bail extension

February 24, 2014 12:42

Breaking Now: The Supreme Court has dismissed a plea by former Gujarat minister and Naroda Patiya massacre convict Maya Kodnani for extension of interim bail.

Maya Kodnani, 60-year-old former child and welfare minister, was in August 2012 sentenced to 28 years in prison for leading a mob which killed 97 people in Ahmedabads Naroda Patiya suburb.

Kodnani has been in hospital since the last one week. She was granted three months bail in November on medical grounds. The Gujarat High Court recently rejected her plea for a 180-day or six-month extension of bail, but the Supreme Court granted her interim relief by giving her a weeks bail that ended today.

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