BBC NEWS | South Asia: "A court in the Indian state of Gujarat has sentenced 11 people to life imprisonment for killing 11 Muslims during religious riots in 2002. Four women and five children were among the victims who were thrown into two wells by a Hindu mob.
The violence broke out after an attack, allegedly by a Muslim mob, on a train carrying Hindu pilgrims in the town of Godhra. Some 60 Hindu passengers died. More than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed in the ensuing riots.
Independent sources say the number who died was closer to 2,000. In a related judgement the court also convicted three people for leading the mobs that had attacked Muslim houses in the same village in the Panchmahals district of Gujarat.
They were sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined. A defence lawyer, Noor Mohammed Sheikh, told the BBC that 21 other suspects had been acquitted in the case."
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
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