Godhra train case: One more accused acquitted

A special trial court Saturday acquitted one more accused in the infamous 2002 Godhra train carnage case. The accused was arrested in March 2011,following which a special trial court conducted his trial inside Sabarmati Central Jail in Ahmedabad. The acquitted accused has been identified as Ismail Chunga,a resident of Godhra. With him,the total number of acquitted accused in the case has reached 64. Before this,in a landmark judgment pronounced in 2011,a special trial court had convicted 31 persons in the case while acquitting 63. Out of the 31 convicts,11 had been awarded death sentence and 11 were condemned to life imprisonment. All convicts have moved appeals against their conviction in the Gujarat High Court.