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Court sentences 9 to life for killing nationalist leader in India
AHMADABAD, India - A court sentenced nine Muslims to life in prison on Monday for murdering a Hindu nationalist leader to avenge the killing of Muslims in one of India’s worst Hindu-Muslim riots, a prosecutor said. Haren Pandya, 43, a former home minister in the western Gujarat state government, was shot dead after finishing his morning workout at a park close to his residence in Ahmadabad city on March 26, 2003.

The Central Bureau of Investigation, India’s federal investigative agency, said the main suspect, Mohammed Asghar Ali, was hired by a Muslim cleric, Mufti Sufian, to kill Pandya to avenge the killings of Muslims in Gujarat a year earlier. Sufian was sentenced to life in prison, but he remains on the run.
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The judge found eight others were part of the conspiracy and also sentenced them to life imprisonment. Two others were given seven-year jail terms and another was handed five years, prosecutor G.M. Panchal said.

Violence erupted on Feb. 27, 2002, when Muslims torched a train car in the town of Godhra, killing 60 Hindus. Hindus retaliated, burning Muslim neighborhoods throughout Gujarat state. Police estimated 1,000 people were killed in one of the worst Hindu-Muslim riots in India.
Posted by: Steve White 2007-06-26
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