11 get death for Godhra train burning, 20 sentenced to life
By IANSTuesday, March 1, 2011
AHMEDABAD - A special court Tuesday sentenced 11 people to death and 20 to life imprisonment for setting a train coach on fire in Gujarat’s Godhra town in February 2002. The Godhra train burning — which claimed 59 lives — triggered a communal frenzy in the state in which 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed.
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