The Best Bakery case (also called Tulsi Bakery case) was a legal case involving the burning down of the Best Bakery, a small bakery outlet in the Hanuman Tekri area in Vadodara, India, on March 1, 2002. During the incident, a mob targeted the Sheikh family which ran the bakery and had taken refuge inside, resulting in the deaths of 14 (including 12 Muslims and Hindu employees of the bakery), has come to symbolize the carnage, and the alleged complicity of the state government of Gujarat, during the 2002 Gujarat violence.
Read more about Best Bakery Case: Background, Case and Acquittal, Reactions, Re-trial, Perjury, Life Sentences, Allegation of False Depositions, 2012 Bombay High Court
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