Ahmedabad:
A special court in Gujarat's Anand district has convicted nine people in connection with a third case related to 2002 Ode massacre.
The case relates to the killing of three people who were burnt to death by a mob at Mal Bhaghol area of Ode village in Anand district following the Godhra train carnage. A total of 41 people were accused in the case.
This is the third case of the 2002 riots at Ode village being probed by the Supreme Court appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT).
On March 1, 2002, as communal riots spread across Gujarat after the Godhra train-burning incident, a mob attacked about 20 Muslim homes in Ode. Members of several families in the neighbourhood took refuge in one three-storeyed house. The mob set fire to it. According to a survivor, a total of 23 people were killed in the three-hour-long horror. However, only two bodies could be recovered. Nine children and nine women were among those killed.
The Ode massacre was one among the nine post-Godhra riot cases investigated by the Special Investigating Team (SIT) appointed by the Supreme Court.