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During the hearing of 2002 Naroda Gam riots, which resulted in the death of 11 people, a special court on Tuesday ordered summons to be issued to BJP national president Amit Shah to depose
as defence witness for Maya Kodnani on September 18. The court’s directive was issued after Kodnani sought additional time to issue summons to Shah to appear in her defence, reports state.
Kodnani, who is sentenced to life imprisonment in the Naroda Patiya massacre, was a top BJP leader in Gujarat in 2002. In her application, Kodnani said, “I want to inform this court that
this applicant has tried to contact my defence witness (Shah), but till today I couldn’t contact him and under these circumstances, I couldn’t examine this witness… therefore, in the name of
justice, grant me ten more days to exercise my right.” Kodnani is among 82 accused in the Naroda Gam case. The 2002 massacre took place a day after the Sabarmati Express was torched at the
Godhra railway station in Gujrat. It resulted in the death of 59 people on board coach S-6, mostly kar sevaks returning from Ayodhya. Kodnani, who is accused of conspiracy, murder among
other charges, was arrested in 2009.