AHMEDABAD: A classes court docket (Ahmedabad rural) has acquitted three individuals over three many years after they had been accused of spreading terror in post-Babri Masjid demolition riots. They had been charged with bringing explosives to Ahmedabad, Gujarat, in 1993.
The court docket concluded that Pankaj Patel, Vrajlal Patel and Virukbhai Kharasiya, of Bhesan in Junagadh, didn’t know that their truck of wheat sacks additionally had seven bombs with detonators and 43 gelatin sticks.Fairly, the consignment was despatched by lawyer-politician Govind Desai to Ashok Bhatt, who later turned a minister. The three accused had been tasked to ship a letter and the consignment to Bhatt.
Courtroom famous that the letter said that one individual wished to make a secret donation of wheat grains to the riot-affected Hindus. The accused had no intention to be a part of the conspiracy to unfold violence, court docket added. “The prosecution’s allegations couldn’t be proved. The idea arrange by defence is extra reliable. It transpires, from all proof on report, that Pankaj was used as a bait to ship explosives to Ahmedabad on pretext of sending wheat grains to riot-affected Hindus. The opposite two co-accused sadly accompanied Pankaj & obtained trapped on this offence,” court docket mentioned.
They had been booked underneath TADA in addition to legal conspiracy (IPC) and underneath Explosive Substances Act.
