{"id":570481,"date":"2023-04-19T10:01:32","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T04:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=570481"},"modified":"2023-04-19T10:28:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T04:58:22","slug":"godhra-train-burning-sc-rejects-death-convicts-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/godhra-train-burning-sc-rejects-death-convicts-plea\/","title":{"rendered":"Godhra train burning: SC rejects death-convicts\u2019 plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the bail pleas of the convicts in the 2002 Godhra train burning case who were awarded the death penalty by the trial court but it was commuted to life sentence by the Gujarat High Court.<\/p>\n<p>While 11 convicts were sentenced to death, 20 others were sent to life imprisonment by the trial court. The HC had upheld 31 convictions in the case while commuting the death penalties and some of them have moved the top court seeking bail till the disposal of their appeals against their conviction and sentence.<\/p>\n<p>On February 27, 2002, 59 people were killed when the S-6 coach of the Sabarmati Express was burnt at Gujarat\u2019s Godhra, triggering riots in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the bail pleas of the convicts in the 2002 Godhra train burning case who were awarded the death penalty by the trial court but it was commuted to life sentence by the Gujarat High Court. While 11 convicts were sentenced to death, 20 others were sent to life imprisonment by the trial court. The HC had upheld 31 convictions in the case while commuting the death penalties and some of them have moved the top court seeking bail till the disposal of their appeals against their conviction and sentence. On February 27, 2002, 59 [&hellip;]<\/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":[130,263,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570481","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=570481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}