{"id":557081,"date":"2023-02-21T09:39:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T04:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=557081"},"modified":"2023-02-21T10:04:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T04:34:52","slug":"godhra-train-burning-case-gujarat-govt-seeks-death-penalty-for-11-in-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/godhra-train-burning-case-gujarat-govt-seeks-death-penalty-for-11-in-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"Godhra train burning case: Gujarat govt seeks death penalty for 11 in SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gujarat government on Monday told the Supreme Court that it will press for the death penalty to 11 convicts in the 2002 Godhra train burning case, as it was a &#8216;rarest of the rare and grave offence.&#8221; The death penalty of these 11 convicts was commuted to life imprisonment by the Gujarat High Court.<\/p>\n<p>Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Gujarat government, submitted before a bench headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud that state is seriously pressing for death penalty for the convicts, which the Gujarat High Court commuted to life imprisonment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gujarat government on Monday told the Supreme Court that it will press for the death penalty to 11 convicts in the 2002 Godhra train burning case, as it was a &#8216;rarest of the rare and grave offence.&#8221; The death penalty of these 11 convicts was commuted to life imprisonment by the Gujarat High Court. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Gujarat government, submitted before a bench headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud that state is seriously pressing for death penalty for the convicts, which the Gujarat High Court commuted to life imprisonment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}