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, in [...]
There may be many a slip before the Gujarat Control of Organised Crime (Gujcoc) (Amended) Bill, 2003, passed in the State Assembly on Wednesday, becomes an Act, especially with the new government at the Centre promising to repeal Pota. Framed on the lines of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), 1999, [...]
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 [...]
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 fire”, the paragraph 229 absolved the Chief [...]
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 the screaming headlines of the gruesome death [...]
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Production of Terrorist Act, Gujarat.
How does one declare a war on terrorism if there are no terrorists around? In Gujarat, this logical hurdle is easily surmounted. Create them first and then declare war on them so that the "hapless citizens" can vote you to power as their sole savior! [...]
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 [...]
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 is [...]
