Updated : Dec 11, 2019, 02:14 PM IST | Edited by : Abhishek Sharma
The Nanavati Commission on Wednesday gave clean chit to former Chief Minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi and his ministers in the 2002 communal riots, which led to over 1000 deaths.
The commission's report was tabled in the Gujarat Assembly by Minister of State for Home Pradeepsinh Jadeja on Wednesday, five years after it was submitted to the then state government.
The report said that the post-Godhra train burning riots were not organised and there was no premeditated conspiracy behind them.
"There is no evidence to show that these attacks were either inspired or instigated or abated by any minister of the state," the commission said in its report.
The report, however, held the police responsible for failing to control the mobs at some places, either due to insufficient numbers or they were not adequately armed.
It also raised the finger of suspicion on three IPS officers, including RB Shree Kumar, Sanjeev Bhatt, and Rahul Sharma.
The gutted interior of the S-6 coach of the Sabarmati Express. Photo: INDRANIL MUKHERJEE / AFP
Former Supreme Court Justice GT Nanavati (retired) and ex-Gujarat High Court Justice Akshay Mehta (retired) had in November 2014 submitted their final report on the 2002 riots to the then state chief minister Anandiben Patel.
In 2009, the first part of the report was tabled in the state assembly and it gave clean chit to the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi but concluded that the riots were a 'planned conspiracy'.
Modi had appointed the commission in 2002 to probe the riots that took place after the burning of two coaches of the Sabarmati Express train near Godhra railway station, in which 59 'karsevaks' were killed.
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