Naroda Patiya riots: SC stays proceedings in Gujarat High Court for 2 months
10 April 2015 11:31 PM GMT
The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed for two months proceedings in the Gujarat High Court on appeals filed by the convicts in the 2002 Naroda Patiya riots case in which former Minister Maya Kodnani was awarded life sentence.
"There will be interim stay on proceedings in the High Court on the appeals for two months," a bench comprising Chief Justice H L Dattu and Justices M B Lokur and M Y Iqbal said.
The apex court also expressed the view that all the eleven appeals should be heard together.
The apex court-appointed Special Investigating Team (SIT), which probed the riot cases, had complained that the High Court has been expeditiously hearing only Kodnani's appeal when appeals of her co-convicts were pending too.
SIT, through senior advocate Harish Salve who is assisting the apex court as amicus curiae in the riots cases, had said the High Court judge was not deciding on its application for hearing all the appeals together.
"There will be interim stay on proceedings in the High Court on the appeals for two months," a bench comprising Chief Justice H L Dattu and Justices M B Lokur and M Y Iqbal said.
The apex court also expressed the view that all the eleven appeals should be heard together.
The apex court-appointed Special Investigating Team (SIT), which probed the riot cases, had complained that the High Court has been expeditiously hearing only Kodnani's appeal when appeals of her co-convicts were pending too.
SIT, through senior advocate Harish Salve who is assisting the apex court as amicus curiae in the riots cases, had said the High Court judge was not deciding on its application for hearing all the appeals together.
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