Babu Bajrangi and Maya Kodnani are convicted in Naroda Patiya case

Ahmedabad  : An unidentified convicted man (C) is escorted by police on her arrival at special court in Ahmedabad on August 31, 2012.

Maya Kodnani and Bajrang Dal leader, Babu Bajrangi are among the 32 people convicted by a special court in the Naroda Patiya riots case and the pronouncement of the quantum of punishment is likely later in the day.

Some 97 Muslims were burnt alive in Naroda Patiya area of Ahmedabad in 2002 after the Godhra Train carnage including Kodnani and Bajrangi, for the massacre..

In 2009, the Supreme Court appointed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the case as well as other cases relating to the Gujarat riots in which 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed.

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