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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Final report on Godhra violence by March 31: Gujarat government by Manas Dasgupta

Final report on Godhra violence by March 31: Gujarat government by Manas Dasgupta

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published Published on Dec 23, 2011   modified Modified on Dec 23, 2011
-The Hindu

The G. T. Nanavati–Akshay Mehta judicial inquiry commission probing the Godhra train carnage and the post-Godhra communal riots in Gujarat in 2002 is expected to submit its final report by March 31 next year — 10 years after its formation.

This information was given by the State government to a Division Bench of the Gujarat High Court comprising Acting Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice J. B. Pardiwala here on Thursday. Government pleader P. K. Jani produced a letter from the commission secretary C. G. Patel, which was in response to a notice issued by the Division Bench on a Public Interest Litigation to this effect.

The letter said the commission had almost completed its assigned task and was “hopeful” that it would be able to submit its final report by March 31, when its extended term was due to expire.

Following the assurance, the Division Bench fixed the next hearing of the PIL in the first week of April if the commission did not submit its report by then.

The PIL was filed by one Jignesh Goswami earlier this month seeking to know the status of the Nanavati–Mehta commission and when it was expected to complete its task. Claiming that the Nanavati – Mehta commission was a “waste of money from the public exchequer with no results”, the PIL had pointed out that the government had already spent over Rs. 6.37 crore for the commission which so far had submitted only an interim report .

The commission was set up by the State government in March, 2002, soon after the outbreak of violence in the aftermath of the Godhra train carnage — constituted by Justice K. G. Shah, a retired judge of the Gujarat High Court. However, following complaints and allegations of partiality, the State government, in May 2002, appointed Justice G. T. Nanavati, a retired judge of the Supreme Court, as the chairman of the commission.

The commission's scope of inquiry was later expanded to probe into the conduct of Chief Minister Narendra Modi, his council of ministers and other politicians and religious leaders alleged to be involved in the riots.

After the demise of Justice Shah in 2008, Justice Akshay Mehta, also a retired judge of the Gujarat High Court, was appointed in his place to constitute the two-member commission.

In September 2008, the commission submitted its interim report on the Godhra train carnage upholding the State government's claim of it being a “pre-planned conspiracy” and gave a clean chit to Mr. Modi and other members of his cabinet.

The commission's theory, however, was partly contradicted by the special court trying the train carnage case. While the court also declared the carnage to be the outcome of a “pre-planned conspiracy” and convicted 31 accused, including sending 11 of them to gallows, it acquitted Moulana Umarji whom the Gujarat police had held as the “key conspirator”.

The Hindu, 23 December, 2011, http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article2740371.ece


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