Ahmedabad: Former minister of state for women development and child welfare, Maya Kodnani filed for regular bail in the city sessions court in connection with the Naroda Patia massacre case, on Thursday. The move came after she was sent to judicial custody in the case by metropolitan magistrate GM Patel.

The Special Investigation Team (SIT)sought Kodnani on remand on grounds that she was not cooperating with the investigation and that she had not replied properly during questioning. However, the metropolitan court rejected the application on the ground that the agency had cited the same grounds as before, sending her to judicial custody.

In the bail application filed through lawyer Mitesh Amin, Kodnani said her involvement in the case had been shown long after the incident. She further said in her application that if released on bail, there would be no scope of her tampering with evidence and that, prima facie, no case of murder had been established against her. The sessions court deferred hearing in the matter till April 21.

Meanwhile, addition city sessions judge AK Aswani granted regular bail to former second police inspector of Naroda, VS Gohil, who has been accused of dereliction of duty during the 2002 riots.

Representing Gohil, lawyers Kinnar Shah and Rajkumar Chaumal submitted in court that no untoward incident had occurred when Gohil had reached the area. They further submitted that he had performed his duty with limited resources; and that he was a government and would not abscond.

Source: dnaindia