Ahmedabad, Nov 25: The Nadiad sessions court today sentenced 12 people to life imprisonment and three to two years' rigorous imprisonment for massacre of 14 Muslims of Ghodasar area in the rural part of the district during post-Godhra communal riots on March 3 last year.
Sessions court judge C K Rane had yesterday announced the conviction of 15 and acquittal of 48 in the case and had reserved the sentencing for today.
Defence counsel T R Vajpayee told a news agency that he had contended that "it was not a rarest of rare case and the convicted persons should not be awarded capital punishment." The prosecution argued that it was a "rarest of rare case and the convicts should not be spared and should be hung till their death." Bureau Report