Former CBI Director R K Raghvan, who is heading the SIT, said that it would be difficult to wind up the proceedings within three months.

Nine people were convicted today and 32 others acquitted by a special court in the 2002 Ode village riots case that left three people dead.

Eighteen of the 23 found guilty in the Ode massacre were given life sentences by the court trying the case in Anand.

The court also imposed a fine of Rs 5,800 each on the accused sentenced to life imprisonment and Rs 3,800 each on the five convicts.

The SIT’s report is by no means a clean chit to Mr Modi. The legal process would, in all likelihood, continue in the Gulberg Society case.

A special court in Anand has convicted 23 people in the Ode massacre case, in which 23 Muslims were burnt to death on March 1, 2002.

A sessions court here today convicted 23 people and acquitted as many others for want of evidence in connection with the Ode village massac...