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Indian state withdraws protection of witnesses in 2002 Gujarat riots cases

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The Gujarat state government in India has revoked the security protection provided to witnesses, lawyers and a former judge in some of the most significant legal cases emerging from the country’s 2002 religious riots.

The Gujarat riots took place over 20 years ago after 59 people, mostly volunteers of Hindu organisations, were burnt alive inside a train that was set on fire at Godhra station by a suspected Muslim mob.

The Sabarmati Express massacre on 27 February 2002 led to across the state on’s majority Hindu and minority Muslim communities.

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