{"id":309145,"date":"2019-02-08T13:15:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T13:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309145"},"modified":"2019-02-08T13:15:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T13:15:56","slug":"uttar-pradesh-life-imprisonment-to-all-seven-convicts-in-2013-muzaffarnagar-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/uttar-pradesh-life-imprisonment-to-all-seven-convicts-in-2013-muzaffarnagar-riots\/","title":{"rendered":"Uttar Pradesh: Life imprisonment to all seven convicts in 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots"},"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-299573 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/law-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"551\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/law-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/law-2-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/law-2-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/law-2.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A local court on Friday awarded life imprisonment to all the seven convicts for killing two men in Kawal village in an attack in Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s Muzaffarnagar in 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The riots were one of the worst communal clashes in Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s history, that had claimed over 60 lives and more than 50,000 were displaced.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The seven men &#8211; Muzammil, Mujassim, Furkan, Nadeem, Janangir, Afzal and Ikbal &#8211; were convicted on Wednesday by a local court in Muzaffarnagar for killing two people and rioting in Kawal village in August 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The riots took place over a minor altercation between youths.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local court on Friday awarded life imprisonment to all the seven convicts for killing two men in Kawal village in an attack in Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s Muzaffarnagar in 2013. The riots were one of the worst communal clashes in Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s history, that had claimed over 60 lives and more than 50,000 were displaced.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014,2015],"tags":[2008,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309145"}],"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=309145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309148,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309145\/revisions\/309148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}