Dear Narendrabhai Why do you have to undertake this “Sadbhavna Mission” by observing three days “upvaas”?? No other Chief Minister of the 26 States in India has to do such a “prayaschit” to earn sadbhavna! Have you finally realized after about a decade that all the so called “developmental” publicity cannot earn you the faith, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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