{"id":319360,"date":"2020-01-28T08:12:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T08:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=319360"},"modified":"2020-01-28T10:00:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T10:00:54","slug":"gujarat-riots-sc-grants-bail-to-14-convicts-in-sardarpura-massacre-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/gujarat-riots-sc-grants-bail-to-14-convicts-in-sardarpura-massacre-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Gujarat riots: SC grants bail to 14 convicts in Sardarpura massacre case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/gujarat-riots-sc-grants-bail-to-14-convicts-in-sardarpura-massacre-case\/supreme-court-1068x706\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-319455\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-319455 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/supreme-court-1068x706-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/supreme-court-1068x706-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/supreme-court-1068x706-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/supreme-court-1068x706-1024x677.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/supreme-court-1068x706-696x460.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/supreme-court-1068x706.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/supreme-court-1068x706-635x420.jpg 635w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/a>The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted bail to 14 convicts sentenced to life imprisonment for the 2002 post-Godhra massacre case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The convicts have been granted bail on the condition that they will not enter the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The men have been directed to stay in Madhya Pradesh\u2019s\u00a0Indore and Jabalpur and participate in social and spiritual services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A bench headed by Chief Justice of India\u00a0SA Bobde\u00a0and Justices\u00a0BR Gavai\u00a0and\u00a0Surya Kant\u00a0also asked district legal authorities in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, to ensure that the convicts do the social and spiritual work assigned to them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The case relates to the massacre of 33 Muslims at Sardarpura village in the aftermath of burning of coaches of Sabarmati Express at the Godhra Railway Station in Gujarat on February 27, 2002 in which around 58 people lost their lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The incident had triggered large-scale riots in Gujarat which claimed many lives.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted bail to 14 convicts sentenced to life imprisonment for the 2002 post-Godhra massacre case. The convicts have been granted bail on the condition that they will not enter the state. The men have been directed to stay in Madhya Pradesh\u2019s\u00a0Indore and Jabalpur and participate in social and spiritual services. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2838,36,2014,2026],"tags":[8435,1059],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319360"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319360"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319456,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319360\/revisions\/319456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}