FACT: There have been a world record number of convictions. There have been a total of at least 488 convictions, including 374 Hindus and 114 Muslims (of which 34 have been convicted for Godhra, and 80 for the post-Godhra attacks on Hindus), according to official records- in 18 years from 2002 to 2020.
It is a world record to see so many people convicted. For the horrible past riots of Gujarat, 1969, 1985, 1990-91-92 in which more people were killed and which were more serious than the 2002 riots, hardly 3 to 4 convictions took place under previous Congress Governments (Janata Dal in 1990 from 13 March 1990 till 25 October 1990, then again Congress till 1995 when Janata Dal merged with Congress). Yes, only 3 convictions each only for the worst riots of 1969 and 1985.
In the 1984 riots where at least 3,000 Sikhs were killed, no action was taken against rioters and according to TV channels CNN-IBN and NDTV both, 30 people were convicted in 12 riot cases in the 28 years after the 1984 riots till April 2013. Link for CNN-IBN saying that 30 were convicted in 12 cases as of August 2012.
Some people claim that 442 people were convicted for the 1984 riots, because some official of the Delhi Police said so. But no one ever gave a date-wise list of convictions accounting to 442 people being convicted in the 1984 riots. According to an RTI query answered in November 2014, 27 people were convicted for the 1984 riots in 7 cases until then.
After reading about these world-record 488 convictions some still claim that the convictions could be made possible because of the SIT and in spite of the Gujarat Government. This is not true. SIT is seeing only a selected few cases. In other cases SIT is not involved at all and yet many many have been convicted. As for the convictions in SIT seen cases, most of the convicted had already been arrested by the Gujarat Police. Most of those arrested by the SIT were in fact acquitted.
For example in the Sadarpura case in which Muslims were killed, 31 were convicted, out of whom 29 had already been arrested by Gujarat police. Only 2 of the 21 arrested by SIT were convicted- i.e. 19 out of 21 arrested by SIT were acquitted. Even in the Naroda Patiya case, 21 out of the 32 convicted were already arrested by the Gujarat police.
Out of 488 convicted till now, only 175 have been in SIT seen cases, 141 Hindus and 34 Muslims. And most of the 141 Hindus convicted had already been arrested by the Gujarat Police. This gives 313 convictions in non-SIT seen cases, a world record still.
Note here that there are a total of around 2000 cases on in the Gujarat riots. They don’t mean 2,000 riots but far lesser number of riots, and cases against 2000 odd accused rioters. So, we have till now 488 people convicted out of total 2000 odd accused, a very high conviction rate. All this is given in proper detail in the book.
The following cases are as per official records. Where newspaper reports are not mentioned, they are exclusively official records and where the newspaper reports are given, they are records supplemented by newspaper reports.
A brief summary of total convictions will be as follows:
1- On 7 October 2002- 1 Hindu was convicted in Bharuch district
2- On 5 March 2003- 1 Hindu was convicted in Junagadh
3- On 4 August 2003- 1 Muslim convicted in Modasa town in Sabarkantha district
4- On 15 September 2003- 4 Muslims were convicted in Anand
5-On 16 October 2003- 4 Muslims were convicted and given life imprisonment
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com//india/Four-get-life-imprisonment/articleshow/236376.cms
6- On 25 November 2003- 15 Hindus were convicted of whom 12 were given life imprisonment
http://www.rediff.com/news/2003/nov/24godhra.htm -Link for conviction
http://www.rediff.com/news/2003/nov/25godhra.htm -Link for punishment
7- On 15 Jan 2004- 1 Hindu convicted in Ahmedabad
8 – On 5 May 2004- 3 Muslims were convicted
9- On 27 July 2004- 3 Hindus convicted in Ahmedabad
10 – On 30 July 2004- 1 Muslim was convicted in Ahmedabad
11 – On 1 November 2004- 2 Muslims were convicted in Ahmedabad
12 -On 4 November 2004- 2 Muslims were convicted in Bharuch district under Ankleshwar Police Station
13- On 30 November 2004- 8 Hindus convicted in Bharuch district under Amod Police Station
14- On 10 December 2004- 8 Muslims were convicted in Bharuch
15- On 31 December 2004- 3 Hindus were convicted in Bharuch district under Ankleshwar Police Station
16- On 31 January 2005- 13 Hindus were convicted in Ahmedabad
17- On 16 February 2005- 9 Hindus were convicted in Sabarkantha district
18 – On 23 February 2005- 3 Hindus were convicted in Ahmedabad
19- On 24 February 2005- 2 Hindus were convicted in Panchmahal district
20- On 22 July 2005- 6 Muslims were convicted in Bharuch district in Ankleshwar city
21- On 28 July 2005- 7 Muslims were convicted in Ahmedabad
22- On 4 August 2005- 2 confessing Muslims were convicted
This was reported by Deccan Herald the next day, 5 August 2005. The Muslims confessed their crime.
http://archive.deccanherald.com/Deccanherald/aug52005/national172323200584.asp
23 – On 11 October 2005- 27 Hindus convicted in Kalol town in Panchmahal district
24- On 24 October 2005- 5 Hindus convicted in Panchmahal district
25- On 7 December 2005- 8 Hindus convicted in Ahmedabad
26- On 14 December 2005- 14 Hindus were convicted
http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/dec/14godhra.htm
27- On 24 February 2006- 9 Hindus were convicted (Outside Gujarat)
http://www.rediff.com/news/2006/feb/24gujarat.htm
28- On 10 March 2006- 3 Hindus were convicted in Bhavnagar
29- On 18 March 2006- 7 Muslims were convicted
30- On 28 March 2006- 9 Muslims were convicted
31- On 14 April 2006- 11 Hindus convicted
32- On 8 May 2006- 4 Muslims convicted in Ahmedabad
33- On 12 May 2006- 5 Muslims were convicted in Ahmedabad district under Sanand Police Station
34- On 14 May 2006- 5 Muslims were convicted
35- On 18 May 2006- 4 Muslims were convicted
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/postgodhra-riots-dna-test-nails-4-killers/4719/
36 – On 29 May 2006- 5 Hindus were convicted in Anand
37- On 1 June 2006- 11 Hindus were convicted in Gandhinagar district under Adalaj Police Station
38- On 23 November 2006- 3 Muslims were convicted for blasts on 6 August 2002 in Ahmedabad in which no one was killed but caused panic
39- On 25 January 2007- 33 Hindus were convicted in Mehsana district
40- On 19 September 2007- 1 Muslim was convicted
41- On 30 October 2007- 11 Hindus were convicted
42- On 18 January 2008- 12 Hindus were convicted in the famous Bilkis Bano case (outside Gujarat)
But on 4 May 2017 the Mumbai High Court convicted 7 more people, to make the total number of convictions in this case as 19.
http://www.rediff.com/news/report/no-death-penalty-for-bilkis-banos-rapists-bombay-hc/20170504.htm
43- On 20 August 2009- 2 Muslims convicted in Sabarkantha district
44- On 13 July 2011- 6 Hindus were convicted
45- On 9 Nov 2011- 31 Hindus were convicted for the Sadarpura case
46- On 9 April 2012- 23 Hindus were convicted
47-On 4 May 2012- 9 Hindus were convicted
https://www.rediff.com/news/report/guj-9-convicted-32-acquitted-in-2002-ode-riots-case/20120504.htm
48- On 30 July 2012- 22 Hindus were convicted
49-On 29 August 2012- 32 Hindus were convicted for the Naroda Patiya killings
50- On 2 June 2016- 24 Hindus were convicted for the Gulberg Society killings (in which Ehsan Jafri was killed).
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/gulberg-society-massacre-case-verdict-11983-2016-06-02
51- On 4 August 2016- 11 Hindus were convicted in a case in Mehsana district in which the accused had been acquitted by the trial court in 2005.
52- On 22 Feb 2011- 31 Muslims were convicted for GODHRA roasting of karsewaks which was the cause of everything
3 more Muslims were also convicted and given life imprisonment for the Godhra masacre after being tried separately after being arrested later, 2 in August 2018 and 1 in March 2019, after absconding for many years. So 34 Muslims were convicted for Godhra in all.
Now adding all those convicted, we get 114 Muslims convicted in all, 34 for Godhra and 80 for post-Godhra. And we have at least 374 Hindus convicted.
We have seen some of the court judgments sentencing Muslims for the Gujarat riots. This is direct evidence that even after Godhra, the riots that happened were not one-sided.
More details of this issue are given in the book, which are not on the website.
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