Jagdish Rajput

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	10
Year Crime:	2002
Year Convicted:	2006
Year Cleared:	2012
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	India
County or Region of Crime:	Gujarat
City of Crime:	Vadodara
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Rajubhai Baria, Pankaj Gosavi, Jagdish Rajput, Lalo Devjibhai Vasava (AKA Suresh), Shailesh Tadvi were co-defendants wrongly convicted in February 2006 of murder in the deaths of 14 people on March 1, 2002 in the burning of the Best Bakery, a small bakery outlet in the Hanuman Tekri area in Vadodara, India. The five were among nine people convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. On July 9, 2012, the Bombay High Court acquitted Baria, Gosavi, Rajput, Vasava, and Tadvi on the basis of insufficient evidence, The convictions of the other four defendants were affirmed based on the testimony of the eyewitness testimony of four injured bakery employees."
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Innocence Proved By:	"On July 9, 2012, the Bombay High Court acquitted Baria, Gosavi, Rajput, Vasava, and Tadvi on the basis of insufficient evidence,"
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Sex:	Male
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Jagdish Rajput

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

10

Year Crime:

2002

Year Convicted:

2006

Year Cleared:

2012

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

India

County or Region of Crime:

Gujarat

City of Crime:

Vadodara

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"On July 9, 2012, the Bombay High Court acquitted Baria, Gosavi, Rajput, Vasava, and Tadvi on the basis of insufficient evidence,"

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Was Perpetrator Identified?

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Male

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"Best Bakery case, Wikipedia.com"

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Bakery_case

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