Ali Case Sentencing

Ali Case Sentencing

On February 23, 2005, an Ahmedabad court sentenced three persons, Varyansinh Bhatia, Manjitsinh Varyansinh and Rajesh Koshti, to four years imprisonment for stabbing Naseembibi Safar Ali, a pregnant woman, to death. The murder took place on February 28, 2002, in the Madhavpura area in the city of Ahmedabad.[56] This case was re-opened for investigation per the directive of the Supreme Court. The Gujarat Court’s decision starkly communicates the lack of value given to the life of Naseembibi Safar Ali, a pregnant Muslim woman. To find the male perpetrators guilty of murder and see fit to punish them with four year sentences makes a mockery of justice and aligns the state, perhaps once again, with the organized violence that was Gujarat in 2002.