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The report which went into the coach burning in February, 2002 in which 58 kar sevaks returning from Ayodhya, were killed, ‘was a pre-planned conspiracy’ which was hatched at the Aman Guest House in Godhra.
The train carnage was cited as the reason by Hindu outfits to justify the post-Godhra pogrom.
This finding of the two-member Commission goes contrary to a probe headed by another former Supreme Court judge U C Banerjee set up by the Lalu Prasad-headed railway ministry that the coach burning was purely an accident. Retired justice Akshay Mehta was the other member of the Nanavati Commission.
"There is absolutely no evidence to show that either the Chief Minister or any of the ministers in his council or police officers had played any role in the Godhra incident," said the report of Justice G T Nanavati, a former Supreme Court judge that went into the train burning incident.
The first part of the report was tabled in the state Assembly on Thursday and evoked instant criticism from political parties and activists opposed to the BJP. They contended that the Commission was set up to ‘mislead’ the people.
The conclusion that the train burning was a ‘pre-planned conspiracy’ was based on various grounds including the statements of the passengers of the train that stone pelting continued for 10-20 minutes to prevent the passengers from coming out of the coach.
140 litres of petrol was purchased by Razzak Kurkur and Salim Panwala to execute the conspiracy, the Commission said adding that according to eyewitnesses, Shaukat Lalu and Mohammad Latika, had possibly opened the sliding door connecting the S6 and S7 coaches and entered S6 through that door.
One Hassan Lalu had thrown a burning rag which had led to the fire in the S6 coach, it said.
On the conspiracy, the report said it was hatched at the Aman Guest House on the directions of Maulvi Umarji and executed by Razzak Kurkur, Salim Panwala, Shaukat Lalu, Imran Sheri, Rafique Batuk and Shiraj Bala.
"The conspiracy hatched by these persons further appears to be a part of a larger conspiracy to create terror and destabilise the administration," the report said.
Giving a clean chit to Modi in the post-Godhra events, the Nanavati Commission said there was no evidence to show there was lapse in the role of the chief Minister or his ministers in providing protection, relief and rehabilitation to the victims of communal riots or in the matter of not complying with the recommendations and direction given by the National Human Rights Commission.
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Now proclaimed promoinority people should stop shouting for their narrow selfish end. They should judge each incident above their narrow intersts. Unless you judge the things above party poltics, appeasment poltics, you are doing more damagee to the society than those who actually caused such incident. Wrong is wrong irrespective of the religieon/faith or party to which a person causing such uncalled incidents
It took more than 6 years to find out that it was a pre planned attack what is that the congress party is going to tell now. Are they still going to fool the public?
Where is Laloo? May be thinking up some other conspiracy theory....
Drip by drip the truth is filtering through.As we knew,Modi,the hindu warrior has been exhonareted and is vindicated,to be innocent. The muslim thugs who were responsible for perpetrating the carnage and the pogrom of death and destruction and tried to all kind of ruse and cover up to hide and bury the facts and the truth.This carnage was nothing less than a premeditated criminal acts of bigoted and twisted muslim thugs.
Though I never believed Banerjee's report of calling Godhra accidental, I see no reason to bring up this tragedy again. It serves no purpose except for getting people to react and vote on this emotive issues rather than more important issues of Poverty, education and healthcare.
Good! So Lalu who campaigned vigorously that it was an accident and there is no conspiracy what so ever should be prosecuted for the offence of misleading the people and trying to exercise undue influence over the Gujrat government. The central government should institute a CBI inquiry into why Lalu and a few others floated the "accident" theory and with what end in mind? Were they helping the terrorists to escape law? Finally, we have to know were the conspirators and deliver justice.
were only muslims killed in the riots...even going by the official figures number of hindus killed in riots would be in hundreds if not thousands. Then how come only muslims decide to take revenge and start killing innocent people?Another reason always pointed out by the "secular" media is that in 'azamgargh' people are very poor and uneducated and that is a primary reason for them becoming terrorists..... but media ignores the fact that 70% population of azamgargh is hindu and these hindus are equally poor and uneducated.... so my question is still the same, how come only muslims decide to take revenge and start killing innocent people?I think media does not have the guts to point out the real issue and thats "Islamic Fundamentalism"
How you can expect a true finding in this Nanavathi commision set by Modi Government? Where is justice?
The report Mugged up. One Commission indicts Modi for the Godhra Episode and the other gives a clean chit. Again it depends aupon the political ideology the commission is following. Justice in India is at its lowest ebb.
Not unexpected when the perpetrators of the crime are writing their own report.Shame on Nanavati, the right hand man of the fascist Modi