A delegation of Jan Sangharsh Manch consisting of Dr.Mukul Sinha, Shri S.H. Iyer and Shri Shamshad Pathan met Shri R.K. Raghavan, Chairman of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted by the Supreme Court and submitted an application for further investigation into the larger conspiracy under section 120-B of the Indian Penal Code to carry out [...]
Senior Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Jaideep Patel was in constant touch with Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s office during the Godhra riots in the state, an affidavit filed by lawyer Mukul Sinha Wednesday before G.T. Nanavati Commission probing the 2002 riots said. Sinha, the counsel for riot victims, said that Patel, an accused in [...]
Ahmedabad: With the Gujarat High Court upholding the recommendations of the Central POTA Review Committee that there was no evidence to prove ‘conspiracy’ behind the Sabaramati Express carnage, it has set aside the ‘conspiracy theory’ of the state government-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT). The team comprised Rakesh Asthana, J K Bhatt and Noel Parmar. The [...]
HC admits petition challenging their dismissal for negligence Justice K S Jhaveri of the Gujarat High Court has admitted a petition challenging the dismissal of five police personnel on charges of negligence of duty as members of the mobile police squad of the Sabarmati Express on February 27, 2002. The five policemen are Jabir Shaikh, [...]
Was the burning of S-6 coach of Sabarmati Express at the Godhra railway station on February 27, 2002 a ‘pre planned act’ and ‘a part of a larger conspiracy’ as concluded by the Nanavati-Mehta Commission in part one of its report? Or was it just a ‘simple case of unlawful assembly’ as held by the [...]
Tuesday’s Supreme Court order has rekindled the hopes of securing bail for close to 100 men lodged in Gujarat’s jails in connection with the Godhra train burning incident of February 27, 2002. The Supreme Court’s decision where it upheld the constitutionality of the POTA Repeal Act and held the recommendations of the Central Review Committee [...]
A probable reason for the Godhra altercation, Nanavati rejected Sophia Bano’s attempted abduction testimony. AJIT SAHI meets her in Vadodara IT HAD all started with her, or so Justice Nanavati doesn’t believe. Sophia Bano SB Dhantia was to travel home to Vadodara on February 27, 2002 after Eid holidays when a coach of the Sabarmati [...]
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 [...]
Paragraph 229 (Mukul Sinha) (1) 229 may be a number that Narendra Modi would like to wear on his shirt sleeves as a lucky talisman. Of the 230 paragraphs that the Commission of Inquiry Chaired by Justice G.T.Nanavati devoted to the unraveling the “conspiracy to set the S/6 coach on [...]
The Nanavati Commission’s findings on Godhra said that 140 litres of petrol were poured into the S6 compartment of Sabarmati Express to set it on fire at the Godhra railway station. However, official injury reports of 70 survivors of the coach S6 fire show that most burn injuries were above the waist. So could the [...]
