A special court in Ahmedabad has sentenced all the convicts of Naroda Patiya case to life term.

BJP MLA and former minister in the Narendra Modi-led Government Maya Kodanani has been sentenced 28 years in jail for her involvement in 2002 post- Godhara Naroda Patiya riots case. Former Bajarang Dal leader Babu Bajarangi has been awarded life imprisonment till death. The remaining 30 convicts were also awarded life term. Kodanani would serve the jail for criminal conspiracy and murder.

Special Court Judge Jyotsana Yagnik has however acquitted 29 accused in the case in which 97 people were killed. AIR Ahmedabad correspondent says it is for the first time in the history of India that the court has announced 10 years rigorous imprisonment for communal riots.