The Naroda Patia verdict has renewed public faith in the judicial system (Mukul Kesavan)

Ten years after the Gujarat killings, a special court in Ahmedabad has found 32 people guilty of premeditated violence in the massacre of 99 Muslims in Naroda Patia, one of the many murderous sprees that made up the pogrom of 2002. This is a landmark judgment because in India the instigators of murderous communal violence are almost never held to account. The court’s judgment is a landmark because it highlights the enormity of the evil of 2002 and it demonstrates how close we were to endorsing the political class’s sense of murderous entitlement by being prepared to look the other way and ’move on’
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