Ahmedabad - A court in India on Friday cleared six men of murdering four people including three British nationals during 2002 religious riots in the prime minister's home state of Gujarat.
At least 1 000 people, mainly Muslims, were killed in a frenzy of communal violence in 2002 in the western state where Narendra Modi was chief minister before he was elected prime minister last year.
The three British nationals were burned alive when a mob torched their car as they drove into Gujarat from the adjacent state of Rajasthan during the bloodshed, some of the worst religious violence to hit India since independence from Britain in 1947.