A division bench of Justices Harsha Devani and AS Supehiya which will pronounce the verdict in the Naroda Patiya case on Friday, 20 April. The bench had earlier reserved the order on the appeal of convicts in August 2017.

Five years earlier, in 2012, a special trial court for SIT cases had sentenced 32 people, including former BJP minister Maya Kodnani, to life imprisonment.

While Kodnani is currently out on bail, the trial court had held that she was the mastermind of the violence in the Naroda area. Another high-profile accused, former Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi, was sentenced to life imprisonment till death.

Kodnani was sentenced to 28 years of life imprisonment.