The BJP president Amit Shah today appeared in the Gujarat court in connection with the riots case where he told that Maya Kodnani, a former Gujarat minister, and BJP leader was in the state assembly on the morning of February 28, 2002, and then at Ahmedabad's Sola Civil Hospital.

Maya Kodnani is accused of murdering 11 Muslims on that day in Naroda Gam, an Ahmedabad suburb. "She was inside the state assembly at 8.30 am...and then I left for Sola Hospital as it was in my constituency.  I reached there between 9:30 am to 9:45 and met Maya Kodnani there," Amit Shah told the judge. 

Mr Shah said, "I don't know. After about 11, I left Sola Hospital and don't know where she went after that."

Last week the Judge had said that Mr. Shah must appear either in person or assign a lawyer to respond to Kodnani's claim that she was not present when 11 Muslims were killed during the riots in Naroda Gam. 

Maya Kodnani has been found guilty in another case, of the massacre of nearly 100 Muslims in a neighborhood called Naroda Patiya. In 2012, she was convicted in the Naroda Patiya case and was sentenced to life in prison.

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