Why it is in news?

• The Gujarat High Court has commuted the death sentence into life imprisonment to 11 convicted by the trial court in the Godhra train carnage. 

 Highlights

• All other orders of the trial court remained unaltered, including life imprisonment for 20 others, acquittal of 63 accused and the acquittal posthumously of Maulana Umarji, who the prosecution originally projected as the “kingpin of the conspiracy”
• The court also passed strictures against the then state government, which was headed as the chief minister by the present PM Narendra Modi, and the railway administration for “failure” to maintain the law and order and awarded compensation of Rs10 lakh to the next of kin of the victims in the train carnage.