Man serving life term in Godhra case nabbed a year | India News

GODHRA: A convict serving life sentence in the 2002 Godhra train carnage case was arrested from Gujarat’s Dahod district a year after he jumped parole, police said on Sunday.

Acting on a tip-off that Kasim Abdul Sattar was living in Limkheda in Dahod, the parole furlough squad reached there on Saturday and arrested him. He was handed over to the City B division police so that he can be taken to Sabarmati central jail in Ahmedabad to serve the remainder of his sentence, the release said.
Sattar was sentenced to life imprisonment in the February 27, 2002 case of setting two coaches of Sabarmati Express on fire in Godhra. It killed 59 passengers and plunged the state into communal riots, in which more than 1,200 persons lost their lives.

The Gujarat high court commuted the death sentence of 11 convicts to life imprisonment and upheld life imprisonment for 20 others.