Click to play videoGodhra: Both the families of those killed in the Sabarmati Express fire, and those in jail for last nine years, on suspicions of setting the train on fire eagerly await the verdict.
It's nine years since Sharifa Dhantiya waiting for her husband Abdul Rehman to return from jail - since the Sabarmati Express was burnt on the railway tracks of Godhra in 2002.
Abdul helped douse the fire in the train with his water tankers, but was named as an accused by the police and has spent the last nine years in jail.
"He had helped the people in dousing out the flames in the train. We are hopeful that he will be set free," said Jabir Dhantiya, son of the Godhra accused.
There are 134 other accused in the case and many of them like Shakir Pataliyya claim they were arbitrarily picked up by the police to substantiate the case that the train burning was a pre planned consipiracy.
"They beat me up during the remand and also when they had illegally confined me. They even gave me electric shocks on my private parts," said Shakir Pataliya.
If the accused claim innocence and hope the verdict would exonerate them, Prafullaben Soni's moist eyes tell the story of the victim who wants the guilty to be punished. Her 65 year old husband Mansukh Bai and son Jesal died in the burning of S-6 coach of the Sabarmati Express.
She doesn't know who the accused are or what they did, but she says capital punishment for the guilty is the only way justice will be done to the families of kar sevaks who died.
"All I want is that those responsible must be given the strictest punishment. They should be hanged. Only then will justice be done. If something like this happens to them, how will they feel?" said Prafullaben.
But in the Godhra case that has national repercussions, justice for the real victims seems to have been overshadowed by the clouds of what happened in Gujarat after the Godhra incident.
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