Ahmedabad: A special court in Ahmedabad Thursday convicted 24 people and acquitted 36 others in the Gulbarg Society massacre case.
The verdict comes 14 years after a mob of nearly 20, 000 attacked Gulbarg society - a cluster of 29 bungalows and 10 apartment buildings housing mostly Muslims - killing 69 people, including former Congress lawmaker Ehsan Jafri.
The Gulberg Society case is one of the nine cases of the 2002 Gujarat riots probed by the Supreme Court appointed SIT.
The incident had taken place a day after S-6 coach of Sabarmati Express was burnt near Godhra train station, where in 58 'karsevaks' were killed.