In the wake of 14 prolonged years, a unique Gujarat sessions court on Thursday indicted 24 individuals, including Vishwa Hindu Parishad pioneer Atul Vaidya, in the hair-raising Gulberg slaughter case in which 69 individuals, including previous Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, were smouldered alive on February 28, 2002.Special sessions court judge P.B. Desai pronounced 36 of the 60 denounced as 'not blameworthy'.

The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday granted regular bail to Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Atul Vaidya who was sentenced to seven years imprisonment in the Gulberg Society massacre case related to 2002 post Godhra riots in Ahmedabad. This is the first instance of a convict getting regular bail in this case.