new delhi the supreme court on friday convicted 12 persons for killing former gujarat home minister haren pandya in 2003a bench headed by justice arun mishra allowed the appeals of the central bureau of investigation cbi and the gujarat government challenging the high court order by which the convicts were absolved of murder charges in the casethe apex court however dismissed a pil filed by ngo centre for public interest litigation cpil seeking a courtmonitored fresh probe in the pandya murder caseit also imposed a fine of rs 50000 on cpil for filing the pil and said no further petition would be entertained in the casethe gujarat high court while acquitting the 12 persons of the charges of murder had upheld the trial courts decision that convicted them for criminal conspiracy attempt to murder and offences under the prevention of terrorism act potathe trial court had awarded punishment ranging from five years to life imprisonment to the convictspandya was the home minister in the then narendra modiled gujarat government he was shot dead on march 26 2003 near law garden in ahmedabad during morning walkread this story in marathi