Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Atul Vaidya, who was convicted in the Gulbarg Society massacre case of the 2002 Gujarat riots, has been granted bail by the Gujarat High Court.
Vaidya was convicted and sentenced to seven years imprisonment in the case involving the brutal massacre of 69 people at the Gulbarg Society in Ahmedabad during the post-Godhra communal riots in the State.
He is the first convict to get regular bail in the case in which 23 persons were convicted by the special SIT (Special Investigation Team) court in June 2016.
A Division Bench of justices Abhilasha Kumari and A.J. Shastri granted bail to Atul Vaidya while observing that he has already served a one-year jail term and his appeal against the conviction in the case is pending.
