By IANS
Ahmedabad : In a verdict that could have an impact on the December polls in Gujarat’s Panchmahal district, a Godhra sessions court Tuesday sentenced eight people to life on the charge of killing seven people in the post-Godhra violence in 2002.
Additional Sessions Judge H.M. Dholakia also sentenced three others to three years’ imprisonment for having “gang raped” two minor girls.
The judge, however, acquitted 29 other accused in a massacre that occurred on March 3 that year. The ghastly incident happened in Eral village in Panchmahal district in central Gujarat.
The police had filed three charge-sheets in the case on the complaint of Madinabibi Sheikh, who was an eye-witness.
Incidentally, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party won all the 13 assembly seats in the district in the 2002 elections.