Modi's Minister Mayaben Kodnani sentenced to 28 years





Mayaben Kodnani is an Indian gynecologist and a former Minister of State for Women and Child Development in the Government of Gujarat. After winning the assembly elections in 2007 from Naroda as a candidate for the BJP, she was named as Minister for Women and Child Development of Gujarat in Narendra Modi's BJP government, but resigned from the post in 2009 impending her arrest as accused for the Naroda Patiya massacre of  97 Muslims, including 36 women and 35 children, were murdered by stabbing, dismemberment and being burned alive individually as well as in groups in 2002, the single bloodiest episode of the three-day riots. In 2012, Kodnani was sentenced to twenty-eight years imprisonment for her participation in the Naroda Patiya massacre during the 2002 Gujarat riots. Kodnani was one of the most high-profile individuals to be convicted in the case, as well being the only woman among the accused. On 30 July 2014 Gujarat High Court has granted bail to her on grounds of ill health.

28 years for Kodnani, Bajrangi to spend entire life in prison


No comments:

Post a Comment