(d)Information on arrests made and punishments imposed, including on State officials who were found to be complicit in such crimes

Details of the number of arrests made and punishments imposed were as follows:

District	No. of cases	No. of accused arrested	Status of case
Ahmadabad city	02	05	Trial stayed by Supreme Court
Kheda District	04	17	12 convicted
Anand District	01	30	Pending trial
Gandhinagar District	01	01	Aquittal
Sabarkantha District	02	17	Aquittal
Rajkot Rural	01	00	Undetected
Godhra District	01	70	Pending trial
Dahod District	01	20 including 2 Deputy Superintendent of Police, 2 Police Sub Inspector, 2 Head Constables and 2 Medical Officers	Bilkis Bano case was investigated by Central Bureau of Investigation. As per Supreme Court order dated 16 August 2004 in transfer petition (Crl) No. 192/04 the case was transferred to Session Court of Justice U.D. Salvi, Greater Mumbai. Trial Court had convicted 11 accused while 9 accused had been acquitted by trial court’s order dated 21 January 2008
Valsad District	01	00	A summary filed on 15 May 2002

(e)Information on the gender specific measures taken by the State party to rehabilitate and compensate women victims of such crimes and the number of women who have benefited from such measures

The following measures had been taken to rehabilitate the victims:

•A scheme of providing vocational training to the women riot victims staying in the relief camps was implemented by the state Government with the help of the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) training programme and 5,731 women were provided with training for different trades.

•A survey was undertaken of orphan children and widows who were victimized by communal riots and had taken shelter in the relief camps. This was done with the cooperation of NGOs like Child Line Organisation, ASAG, SEWA, AKHAND JOYT FOUNDATION, H.K. JANI Organisation, etc.

•Rs. 824,857 was paid as financial assistance under Scheme of Financial Assistance for widows to 480 women affected by riots and who were residing in relief camps.

•2 riot affected children from the relief camps were covered under foster-care scheme. Rs. 500 per month had been sanctioned to them as assistance till they attain the age of 18 years.

•334 children were covered under the scheme of assistance run by National Foundation for Communal Harmony, New Delhi. Follow-up work under this scheme was being carried out in coordination with all the District Collectors.

•3 persons who had become disabled during riots and were taking shelter in the relief camps were provided with a disability card to make them eligible for free of charge travelling in State Transport Buses.

•The communal riots caused severe mental distress and trauma especially among women and children. To establish infrastructure for counselling of the affected women and children in relief camps in the State, the following steps were taken. Counsellors from various NGOs were volunteered to provide services to women. A training camp was also organized at the Gandhi Labour Institute for three days on 30 May-1 June 2002. Trauma counselling work was undertaken by 33 trained counsellors from May to August 2002 (about four months), and following number of people benefited:

	No. of beneficiaries
Type of beneficiaries	Male	Female	Total
1. Children	1 522	2 302	3 824
2. Adolescents	1 065	2 042	3 107
3. Adults	831	3 474	4 305
4. Old age	4 306	11 565	15 871

(f)Information on compensation awarded to women victims, especially of violence against women

The State Government through Gujarat Women Economic Development Cooperation had proposed training programme under NORAD to the riot victims who were staying in the relief camps. The Government of India had sanctioned Rs. 23.6 million for organizing training for rehabilitation of the riot affected women. State Government had spent Rs. 23 million for vocational training classes in all districts.

(g)Information disaggregated by sex, on the 5,000 or so Muslim families displaced by the violence and measures taken by the Government for their resettlement and rehabilitation

There were 86 colonies in different part of Gujarat housing 3,644 riot affected families with population of 19,107. In many of the colonies there was availability of varying levels of household and general civic amenities. However, considerable amount of rehabilitative work was done in terms of providing individual entitlements in these colonies as per details given below:

1.Primary schools with midday meal centre in all the 86 colonies within a distance of 2 km.

2.Fully functional integrated Child Development Service Centers, providing services for health, nutrition and development of children in 85 colonies.

3.Public distribution shops in all the 86 colonies, within a distance of 3 km, providing subsidized food grains.

4.Most of the families were given ration cards, with 3,322 families getting Antodaya cards making them eligible to get food grains at highly subsidized rates.

(h)Information on measures taken to enable economic rehabilitation of the affected communities and rebuilding of basic infrastructures destroyed during the riots

Following measures had been taken for economic rehabilitation:

1.As per the provisions made by Government in Revenue Department’s resolution dated 20 March 2002, Rs. 178.2 million has been paid in rural areas to 11,204 beneficiaries under Indira Awas Yojna.

2.Rs. 122.8 million has been paid to 18,037 beneficiaries in urban areas under Valmiki Avas Yojna. This amount has been paid from the Central Government’s package of Rs. 1.5 billion.

3.Further, a Scheme has been implemented by the State Government through Gujarat Women Economic Development Cooperation under NORAD training programme to provide vocational training to the riot affected women staying in the relief camps and 5,731 women were provided with training for different trades.