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Welcome verdict

The sentencing of eight persons by a Godhra court to life imprisonment and three others to three years’ rigorous imprisonment for the murder of seven Muslims in the Eral village of Gujarat in 2002 is welcome.

But the quantum of punishment is debatable. The criminal justice system hands down the death penalty in the rarest of rare cases. What can be more heinous and rare than a horrendous massacre and violation of human rights?

Deepak Joshi,

Mumbai

It has taken the justice system more than five years to sentence those who committed an atrocious crime.

One wonders whether, but for the media pressure, the 2002 riots cases would have got lost in the asylum of records and files.

Himanshu Sachdeva,

Thanjavur

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