AHMEDABAD: A periods court docket (Ahmedabad rural) has acquitted three individuals over three a long time after they have been accused of spreading terror in post-Babri Masjid demolition riots. They have 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.Slightly, the consignment was despatched by lawyer-politician Govind Desai to Ashok Bhatt, who later turned a minister. The three accused have been tasked to ship a letter and the consignment to Bhatt.
Courtroom famous that the letter acknowledged that one particular person 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 speculation arrange by defence is extra reliable. It transpires, from all proof on file, 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 & acquired trapped on this offence,” court docket mentioned.
They have been booked below TADA apart from prison conspiracy (IPC) and below Explosive Substances Act.
