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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 officers from the lapses committed [...]
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 [...]
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 injuries have [...]
THE DERAILED REPORT OF NANAVATI COMMISSION
COMMENTS ON NANAVATI COMMISSION REPORT
ON THE RIGHT TRACK TO
GODHRA
REPORT ON THE BURNING OF SABARMATI EXPRESS
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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 [...]
