A special POTA court here on Thursday sent one of the prime accused convicted in the 2003 murder of Gujarat’s then home minister Haren Pandya to judicial custody at Sabarmati Central Jail. The trial court’s conviction of Asghar Ali had been restored last month by the Supreme Court.
Pandya, who held the Home and Revenue portfolios during the chief ministership of Narendra Modi, was shot dead when he entered his car after a morning walk, on March 26, 2003, near Law Garden area in the city.
Asgar Ali was the prime accused and the sharp shooter who was found guilty of pulling the trigger on Pandya.