A city court will Monday announce the date for handing out punishments to the 24 men convicted in the 2002 Gulberg society massacre case even as the prosecution demanded at least life in jail for those guilty of murder. The Gulberg case is one of the nine 2002 riot cases to be probed by the Supreme Court-appointed special investigation team. The special investigation (SIT) court had on June 2 found 24 people guilty, 11 of them of murder, in the 14-year-old case. Sixty-nine people, including former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, were killed on February 28, 2002 in the communal violence that ravaged Gujarat. The prosecution led by advocate SM Vora asked for life imprisonment, if not death, for the murder convicts.

Source: Hindustan Times June 10, 2016 11:15 UTC