Ahmedabad, January 06: The year 2009 revived hopes of post-Godhra riot victims getting justice with commencement of trials in some of the cases following lifting of a stay by the Supreme Court.
The year saw a lot of activities on the legal front as Magistrate S P Tamang’s report on encounter of Ishrat Jahan and three others concluded that it was a cold blooded murder.
However, the high court subsequently stayed the report.
The high court also upheld a decision to remove POTA provisions from 93 accused of the Godhra train burning incident of 2002 while the Nanavati Commission refused to call Chief Minister Narendra Modi for questioning, saying it was not appropriate at that point of time to summon him.
–PTI