Gujarat govt to table 2nd part of Nanavati panel report on 2002 riots

First part of the report was tabled in 2009

Fifty-nine persons, majority of them kar sevaks, were burnt alive on board S-6 coach of the Sabarmati Express in Godhra on February 27, 2002 | Reuters Fifty-nine persons, majority of them kar sevaks, were burnt alive on board S-6 coach of the Sabarmati Express in Godhra on February 27, 2002 | Reuters

The Gujarat government will table in the state assembly the second part of the Justice G.T. Nanavati and Akshay Mehta Commission report on Godhra carnage and post-Godhra riots of 2002.

Advocate General Kamal Trivedi on Friday said in the Gujarat High Court that part one of the report was already tabled in the state assembly on September 25, 2009 and it has already been decided to table part two of the report in the ensuing budget session of the Legislative Assembly.

This was in response to a PIL filed by former DPG R.B. Shreekumar.

Fifty-nine persons, majority of them kar sevaks, were burnt alive on board S-6 coach of the Sabarmati Express in Godhra on February 27, 2002. In the riots that broke out from February 28, 2002 in Gujarat, more than 1,000 persons, mostly Muslims, lost their lives.

The Commission was appointed by the state government to probe Godhra carnage and post-Godhra riots.

The Commission, which was given several extensions, had submitted its final report to the state government on November 18, 2014. 

Shreekumar had filed a PIL in the High Court seeking a direction to the state government to submit the entire report.

The first report, which was presented in the state assembly, did not cover post Godhra riots. It only covered the Godhra carnage and held the conspiracy theory. 

Shreekumar told THE WEEK that he moved the High Court as he did not get a response despite a detailed representation to the chief minister. He had filed several affidavits before the Commission. 

He held that the state government had delayed presentation of the report and that it had nothing to challenge his PIL. 

Shreekumar withdrew the PIL after the state government said that it would present the second part of the report.

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