The report of the Nanavati Commission, which investigated the 2002 Gujarat riots, has given a clean chit to the government of then chief minister Narendra Modi.
The report of the Nanavati Commission was tabled in the Gujarat Assembly on Wednesday. The commission report mentioned the riots were not organised. However, the commission noted the police were ineffective in controlling mobs in some areas. It recommended initiating action against the erring police officers in such instances.
Modi, who went on to win three successive state elections in Gujarat—2002, 2007 and 2012—before being elected chief minister, had been repeatedly accused by critics of allowing the riots to take place.
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Retired justices G.T. Nanavati and Akshay Mehta had in 2014 submitted their final report on the 2002 riots, in which over 1,000 people—mainly Muslims—were killed, to the then state chief minister Anandiben Patel. However, it was tabled in the house only on Wednesday.
The commission was appointed in 2002 by Modi 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.
The commission had submitted a portion of its report in 2008, which found that the burning of the train was part of a conspiracy.
