The Gujarat High Court on Monday allowed the appeals of former BJP MP Dinu Solanki and six others against their conviction by a CBI court in the case of RTI activist Amit Jethwa’s murder in 2010.
Observing that the trial court conducted proceedings with a “predetermined notion of conviction”, a division bench of Justices AS Supehia and Vimal K Vyas quashed the CBI court’s order sentencing Solanki and the six others to life imprisonment.
Jethwa was shot dead outside the high court on July 20, 2010, after he tried to expose illegal mining activities allegedly involving Solanki by seeking information under the Right to Information (RTI) Act.