Weekly magazine Tehelka has claimed to have accessed the 600-page SIT report submitted to the Supreme Court. The magazine has reported quoting the SIT report that: "The CM had tried to water down the seriousness of the situation at Gulbarg Society, Naroda Patiya and other places by saying that every action has an equal and opposite reaction."
Note by enquiry officer: "His (Modi) implied justification of the killings of innocent members of the minority community read together with an absence of a strong condemnation of the violence that followed Godhra suggest a partisan stance at a critical juncture when the state had been badly disturbed by communal violence."
"Modi's statements were sweeping and offensive coming as it did from a chief minister, that too at a critical time when Hindu-Muslim tempers were running high." SIT chairman RK Raghavan's comments.
"In an extremely 'controversial' move, Modi had placed two senior ministers — Ashok Bhatt and IK Jadeja — whose cellphone records showed that they were in touch with rioters — in Ahmedabad city police control room and the Gujarat state police control room during the riots with 'no definite charter', fuelling the speculation that they 'had been placed to interfere in police work and give wrongful decisions to the field officers'."
Police officers who took a neutral stand during the riots and prevented massacres were transferred by the Gujarat government to insignificant postings in a highly 'questionable' manner.
"The Gujarat government has reportedly destroyed the police wireless communication of the period pertaining to the riots. No records, documentations or minutes of the crucial law and order meetings held by the government during the riots had been preserved."
"Modi displayed a 'discriminatory attitude' by not visiting the riot-affected areas in Ahmedabad where a large number of Muslims were killed, though he went to Godhra on the same day, travelling almost 300 km on a single day."
Government appointed VHP and RSS-affiliated advocates as public prosecutors in sensitive riot cases. The report states, "It appears that the political affiliation of the advocates did weigh with the government for the appointment of public prosecutors." Gujarat government did not take any steps to stop the illegal bandh called by VHP on 28.02.2002.
On the contrary, the BJP had also supported the bandh.
"In an inexplicable move, the police administration did not impose curfew in Naroda and Meghaninagar (Ahmedabad city) until 12 noon and 2 pm respectively on 28.02.02. By then, the situation had severely deteriorated at both places."
"The state police had carried out patently shoddy investigations in the Naroda Patiya and Gulbarg Society massacre cases and deliberately overlooked the cellphone records of Sangh Parivar members and BJP leaders involved in the riots."
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