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Best Bakery killings: Four get life term,
five acquitted
Monday July 09, 2012 07:08:54 PM,
IANS
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Mumbai: The Bombay
High Court Monday sentenced four people to life imprisonment while
acquitting another five in the 2002 Best Bakery carnage in which
14 people were killed in Vadodara in Gujarat during communal
frenzy.
A division bench of Justices P.D. Kode and V.M. Kanade convicted
Sanjay Thakkar, Bahadursinh Chavan, Shanabhai Baria and Dinesh
Rajbhar.
Rajubhai Baria, Pankaj Gosai, Jagdish Rajput, Shailesh Tadvi and
Suresh Vasava were acquitted in the case whose re-trial in
Maharashtra was ordered by the Supreme Court in 2004.
A Vadodara court earlier acquitted all the 21 accused in the
communal riots case in 2003.
On July 3, the high court reserved its judgment after hearing both
the defence and the prosecution and said it would start dictating
the order in open court.
During the riots in February 2002 in Gujarat, 14 people had taken
refuge in the Best Bakery in Vadodara March 1 when they were
killed by around 20 people.
On Feb 24, 2005, a special court in Mumbai convicted nine of the
20 accused in the case and sentenced them to life imprisonment.
The accused approached the Bombay High Court challenging the
order.
The trial court earlier acquitted eight other accused in the case
and issued perjury notices to witness Zahira Sheikh and other
witnesses in the case for backtracking from their testimonies.
In 2006, Sheikh, her mother Sehrunisa and sister Saherabano were
convicted for perjury.
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