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Maya Kodnani was acquitted in the Naroda Gam case The Naroda Gam massacre was one of nine major communal riot cases of 2002 investigated by a Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) and heard by special courts. All defendants are currently out on bail. Of a total of 86 defendants, 18 died during the trial.
The prosecution and defense heard from 187 and 57 witnesses respectively during the trial, which began in 2010 and continued for nearly 13 years with six judges successively presiding over the case.
Home Minister Amit Shah appeared in court as a defense witness for Ms Kodnani in 2017. She was a minister in the Gujarat government led by then-Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2002 when riots broke out following the burning of a Sabarmati coach. Express on which Hindu pilgrims traveled to the Godhra of Gujarat.
Former Bajrang Dal leaders Babu Bajrangi and Jaideep Patel were seen discussing extrajudicial killings in a Tehelka magazine report in November 2007, during a covert operation dubbed "Operation Kalank".
