India finds 31 guilty in deadly 2002 train burning
R.K. MISHRA Associated Press= AHMADABAD, India (AP) — A court investigating one of India’s worst outbursts of communal violence Tuesday found 31 Muslims guilty of setting fire to a train in which 60 Hindus were killed nine years ago. The court also acquitted 63 people of participating in the 2002 attack on the train packed with Hindu pilgrims in the western Indian state of Gujarat that triggered deadly anti-Muslim riots in India. About 1,000 people were killed when groups of Hindus rampaged through Muslim neighborhoods and towns in Gujarat from February to April 2002. Most of the dead were Muslims. Soon after the verdict was announced Tuesday, special public prosecutor J.M. Panchal said he…
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India finds 31 guilty in deadly 2002 train burning
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