Gulberg Society massacre: Quantum of sentence likely on Thursday

June 09, 2016 08:29

A Special Investigation Team court is likely to pronounce the quantum of sentence on Thursday for the 24 convicted in the Gulberg Society massacre in which 69 persons including former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri were killed during the 2002 Gujarat riots.

The prosecution had sought nothing less than death sentence or jail term till death for all the convicts while the defence lawyers had contested it saying that the incident was spontaneous and there were enough provocations for it.

Judge PB Desai had earlier on June 2 convicted 11 persons of offences including murder, while 13 others were charged with lesser offences. The court had acquitted 36 others.

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