No change in policy on 2002 Gujarat riots: US

The State Department said the Gujarat government withdrew its consent to seek the death penalty for former minister Maya Kodnani and others convicted in the 2002 Naroda Patiya violence that killed 97 Muslims.

“We also note that we cite our concerns about several instances of communal violence, as I mentioned yesterday, but our goal is to use illustrative cases to shed light on the nature, scope and severity of human rights abuses we report, not to comprehensively catalogue every human rights violation or abuse that occurred,” Psaki said.

“And again, when there are significant developments - whether that's a legal case or issues along those lines - those are what are included. So it is not an indication of a change in policy or anything along those lines,” she said.