--- title: 2002 Gujarat Riots: 24 Convicted in India for Gulbarg Massacre description: Thirty-six others, including a member of the national ruling party, were acquitted canonical: https://time.com/4354691/india-gujarat-riots-gulbarg-massacre-convicted-2002/ author: Rishi Iyengar article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-02T08:11:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T22:20:11.871Z article:section: World og:title: Indian Court Convicts 24 for Massacre During 2002 Gujarat Riots og:description: 36 others, including a member of the national ruling party, were acquitted og:url: https://time.com/4354691/india-gujarat-riots-gulbarg-massacre-convicted-2002/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt146cf50bf1f39e8a/698895eb0b72e301e86e9a8f/gettyimages-536710614.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: INDIA-POLITICS-RELIGION-UNREST og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Indian Court Convicts 24 for Massacre During 2002 Gujarat Riots twitter:description: 36 others, including a member of the national ruling party, were acquitted twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt146cf50bf1f39e8a/698895eb0b72e301e86e9a8f/gettyimages-536710614.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Indian Court Convicts 24 Over Muslim Massacre During 2002 Gujarat Riots > Sponsored content. 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[Become a member](/c/pmi-2026-q3/membership?i=b889401e-d48e-4693-8cc3-128e367aa0d3&cr=agentads-creative-pmi-v1). by [Rishi Iyengar](/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Jun 2, 2016 8:11 AM CUT  Buildings damaged during religious riots are seen in the Indian city of Ahmedabad on June 1, 2016 Buildings damaged during religious riots are seen in the Indian city of Ahmedabad on June 1, 2016Sam Panthaky—AFP/Getty Images by [Rishi Iyengar](/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Jun 2, 2016 8:11 AM CUT A court in India Thursday [convicted](http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/gujarat-riots-2002-gulberg-society-massacre-verdict-live-updates-2829924/ "undefined") 24 people accused of participating in the 2002 communal riots in the state of Gujarat. More than a thousand people — a majority of them Muslim — are believed to have been killed over a three-day period. Eleven of the suspects were indicted on murder charges for the incident known as the Gulbarg Society massacre, in which 69 people (including prominent politician Ehsan Jafri) were murdered inside a residential complex, the _Indian Express_ reported. The remaining 13 were convicted of lesser crimes, while 36 others accused — including a local member of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) — were acquitted. The three-day riots were one of the worst instances of Hindu-Muslim violence since India’s independence, and the controversy surrounding them has dogged India’s current Prime Minister [Narendra Modi](http://time.com/3849494/narendra-modi-india/ "undefined") — the chief minister of Gujarat state during the riots — for more than a decade. Modi has been absolved of blame by multiple courts, but many continue to accuse him of not doing enough to stop the incitement of violence against Muslims. The U.S. government in 2005 denied Modi a visa over his alleged role in the riots, but [reinstated](http://time.com/102967/narendra-modi-india-barack-obama-win/ "undefined") it just before he became Prime Minister in 2014. \[[_Indian Express_](http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/gujarat-riots-2002-gulberg-society-massacre-verdict-live-updates-2829924/ "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4354691/india-gujarat-riots-gulbarg-massacre-convicted-2002/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4354691/india-gujarat-riots-gulbarg-massacre-convicted-2002/"},"headline":"Indian Court Convicts 24 Over Muslim Massacre During 2002 Gujarat Riots","datePublished":"2016-06-02T08:11:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T22:20:11.871Z","description":"Thirty-six others, including a member of the national ruling party, were acquitted","url":"https://time.com/4354691/india-gujarat-riots-gulbarg-massacre-convicted-2002/","keywords":["India","Narendra Modi","Muslim","24","BJP","gujarat","riots","Hindu"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt146cf50bf1f39e8a/698895eb0b72e301e86e9a8f/gettyimages-536710614.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rishi Iyengar","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt146cf50bf1f39e8a/698895eb0b72e301e86e9a8f/gettyimages-536710614.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"INDIA-POLITICS-RELIGION-UNREST","caption":"INDIA-POLITICS-RELIGION-UNREST","creditText":"Sam Panthaky—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4354691/india-gujarat-riots-gulbarg-massacre-convicted-2002/","name":"Indian Court Convicts 24 Over Muslim Massacre During 2002 Gujarat Riots"}}]}] ```