Overview

• The Supreme Court will hold uninterrupted hearings on May 6–7 for appeals related to the 2002 Godhra train burning case.
• The Gujarat government is appealing to reinstate death sentences for 11 convicts whose penalties were commuted to life imprisonment by the High Court in 2017.
• Several convicts are challenging the Gujarat High Court's decision to uphold their convictions in the case.
• The bench, led by Justices JK Maheshwari and Rajesh Bindal, has directed all parties to submit revised compilations of arguments by May 3.
• The incident, which killed 59 kar sevaks, led to one of the most severe episodes of communal violence in modern Indian history.