{"id":308434,"date":"2019-01-23T06:55:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T06:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308434"},"modified":"2019-01-23T06:55:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T06:55:57","slug":"sc-grants-bail-to-four-convicts-in-2002-naroda-patiya-riots-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sc-grants-bail-to-four-convicts-in-2002-naroda-patiya-riots-case\/","title":{"rendered":"SC grants bail to four convicts in 2002 Naroda Patiya Riots Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-299685 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Supreme-Court-2-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Supreme-Court-2-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Supreme-Court-2.jpg 636w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The\u00a0Supreme Court on Wednesday granted bail to four convicts in connection with the 2002 Naroda Patiya riots case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;The conviction order is debatable,&#8221; the Supreme Court said on Tuesday while granting bail to convicts Umeshbhai Bharwad, Rajkumar, Harshad and Prakashbhai Rathod.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At least 97 Muslims were killed in Ahmedabad\u2019s Naroda Patiya area on February 28, 2002, when a mob thronged in the locality and murdered them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The incident was one of the worst cases of mob violence during the Gujarat riots.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In the Naroda Patiya case, the high court had convicted Babu Bajrangi, and acquitted 17 others, among them former BJP minister Maya Kodnani.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Supreme Court on Wednesday granted bail to four convicts in connection with the 2002 Naroda Patiya riots case. &#8220;The conviction order is debatable,&#8221; the Supreme Court said on Tuesday while granting bail to convicts Umeshbhai Bharwad, Rajkumar, Harshad and Prakashbhai Rathod. At least 97 Muslims were killed in Ahmedabad\u2019s Naroda Patiya area on February 28, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[10667,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308441,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308434\/revisions\/308441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}