On February 22, 2012 Times of India reported that a city crime branch team arrested Shaukat Abdulla Ismail Ghanchi alias Shaukat Badam — a convict in the Godhra carnage case who had jumped interim bail — from Geeta Mandir bus depot on Tuesday afternoon. Shaukat was wanted since December 20, 2011. According to crime branch officials, Shaukat (45) a resident of Pollen Bazaar, Godhra, was awarded life imprisonment and was serving his term at the Vadodara central jail. He was given interim bail on the basis of an order by the Gujarat high court on December 13, so that he could attend his daughter’s wedding. He gave a guarantee that he would return on December 20.

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