Summary:
Despite resistance from the SIT and the victims, Justice R R Tripathi decided to go ahead and hear Kodnani’s appeal expeditiously, by delinking it from other appeals. Witnesses said that she had alighted from a vehicle at Naroda Patia, but none of police witnesses said so. "Maya Kodnani's delayed nailing in the case can not be accepted," the court observed.HC has reduced punishment for all the convicts to 21 years rigorous imprisonment. The SIT did not even seek enhancement of punishment for Kodnani on the grounds that it did not receive sanction to do so from the state government. Kodnani was awarded a 28-year jail term and Bajrangi was awarded imprisonment till his last breath..