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Gujarat gets notice on plea to change Gulberg
Society case judge
Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:43:34 PM, IANS
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New Delhi:
The Supreme Court Tuesday issued a notice to the Gujarat
government on a petition seeking change of the judge conducting
the 2002 Gulberg Society massacre case trial.
The court also cleared the decks for pronouncement of the judgment
in the Godhra train carnage case and said the trial in other riots
related cases would continue.
However, the stay will continue on the trial in the Gulberg
Society massacre case.
The petition seeking a change of the judge hearing the Gulberg
Society massacre case was filed by Zakia Jaffri, widow of a former
Congress MP Ehsan Jaffri who was killed in the 2002 attack.
By its May 6 order, the apex court had restrained the trial courts
from pronouncing any verdict. However, it permitted them to go
ahead with the trial proceedings.
In a related development, senior counsel Prashant Bhushan withdrew
himself as an amicus curiae in Gulberg Society massacre case over
objections raised by the state government.
Thirtynine people were killed by a mob at Gulberg Society, a
Muslim neighbourhood in Ahmedabad.
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