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 [...]
THE DERAILED REPORT OF NANAVATI COMMISSION COMMENTS ON NANAVATI COMMISSION REPORT ON THE RIGHT TRACK TO GODHRA REPORT ON THE BURNING OF SABARMATI EXPRESS
THE DERAILED REPORT OF SABARMATI EXPRESS (Please click on the below link for the complete text of Jan Sangharsh Manch’s Report on the burning of Sabarmati Express in Godhra) ON THE RIGHT TRACK TO GODHRA BY JAN SANGHARSH MANCH PREAMBLE: 1. On 28th February 2002, the news dailies of Gujarat were carrying [...]
Manch’s own report trashes conspiracy theory behind Godhra incident The Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM) on Friday rejected Part one of the Justice Nanavati Commission’s report on the Godhra incident. It said the report was a product of “unfortunate, manipulation of evidence” to reach a pre-ordained conclusion. The JSM released its own report based on all [...]
An NGO today came out with its own report on the burning of the Sabarmati Express in 2002 and claimed that the incident was "not a pre-planned conspiracy", contradicting findings of the Nanavati Commission that inquired into the case. The S6 coach of the train burned due to flash fire that followed an initial ignition, [...]
The Nanavati Commission report describing the 2002 Sabarmati Express fire at Godhra as a conspiracy has not surprised anyone. The report has in fact confirmed the worst apprehensions of rights activists, Non-Governmental Organisations and lawyers that the commission would toe the BJP line that the fire was the result of a conspiracy. The composition of [...]
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 [...]
OMISSIONS AND COMMISSIONS (Mukul Sinha) The spectre of “Terrorism” seems to have finally captured the sensibility of the entire nation. All spaces, be that in the print media or the electronic media, be it in a public place or in a private drawing room, are fully occupied by this spectre; a sterile nation incapable of [...]
The Nanavati Commission, probing the Godhra train carnage and subsequent riots in Gujarat, submitted the first part of its report to Chief Minister Narendra Modi here on Thursday. Commission members Justice G.T. Nanavati and Justice Akshay Mehta handed over the report to him, in the presence of Minister of State for Home Amit Shah. The [...]
