BJP national president, Amit Shah, who appeared as former Gujarat minister, Maya Kodnani’s witness before a sessions court in Ahmedabad, informed on Monday that the former Gujarat minister was not present in Naroda Gam on the day riots took place.
Shah said he met Kodnani at the Gujarat Assembly on 28 February, 2002, just a after the Sabarmati Express was torched. The BJP president was issued summons after Kodnani’s counsel told the court that Shah was unreachable.
Kodnani is named among the 82 who allegedly killed 11 Muslims in Naroda Gam.
She has already been sentenced to life imprisonment in the Naroda Patiya massacre case. 97 Muslims were killed in the incident.
Shah was among the list of 14 defence witnesses summoned by the court.
Kodnani wants to prove the point that she was not at the location on the day of the Naroda Gam killings.
