SIT moves to arrest Minister of State for Women and Child Welfare Dr Maya Kodnani and VHP leader Jaydeep Patel in Naroda Gam Case? Minister of State for Women and Child Welfare Dr Maya Kodnani must step down after being declared absconder by the Supreme Court appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT). SIT also declared Dr.Jaydeep [...]
Although the removal of POTA charges from the Godhra train carnage case following a Supreme Court verdict has brought relief for the accused, the case is still stuck where it was six years ago after the Sabarmati Express train was set ablaze at the Godhra railway station on February 27, 2002. Trial in the case, [...]
Paragraph 229 Untold stories (Mukul Sinha) The eloquence of the Paragraph 229 of the report of the Justice Nanavati Commission on the Godhra incident lies not in what it said but in what it did not say. Ironically, in a hurry to absolve the Chief Minister, other ministers and even the delinquent police [...]
Justice JS Verma, who headed the NHRC during the Gujarat carnage, tells NEHA DIXIT that the Nanavati Commission Report is far from the truth You said only somebody ‘naïve’ could absolve the Narendra Modi Government and the police of wrongdoings in the Godhra carnage. Why? Because the report is far from the truth. Even a [...]
I suspected some design when the Justice Nanavati Commission submitted only a part of the inquiry report on what was known as the Godhara incident. I could see the contents written on the face of a gleeful Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in a photograph at the time of the report’s presentation. It was clear [...]
Right from the day the Justice Nanavati-Shah commission was constituted in 2002, there was one lawyer who conducted it directing its course of investigation. Gujarat High Court advocate Mukul Sinha of Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM), a former scientist with Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) turned lawyer, brought out most of the facts of Godhra carnage and [...]
Rubbishing the conspiracy theory put forth in the Nanavati-Mehta commission’s report, the Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM) on Friday maintained that had the Sabarmati Express not been late, the carnage would never have happened. Talking to mediapersons, JSM convenor Mukul Sinha said that the Godhra probe panel’s conclusions on the killing of 59 passengers on February [...]
The report of Justice Nanavati and Justice Mehta commission looks as if it has borrowed the theory of conspiracy stated in the police inquiry report of Dy SP Noel Parmar. At the time of the submission of the part report by the commission, we had questioned the urgency of submitting the report after waiting for [...]
Challenging the Nanavati-Mehta investigation panel’s finding that the Godhra train burning was pre-planned, human rights activists termed the probe report as “absurd” and a “travesty of justice”.”It is an absurd report,” said lawyer Mukul Sinha of the Jan Sangharsh Manch (JMM) who represented violence victims before the inquiry commission. “The part one of the report [...]
Would the Sabarmati express have met the same fate had someone aboard it not pulled the chain to allow the kar sevaks in, just after it left the Godhra platform? Or for that matter, would the S-6 coach have burnt had the desperate passengers, or someone outside, not opened the door? The fire on the [...]
