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New Delhi: The Nanavati Commission report probing into the Godhra train carnage was tabled in the Gujarat Assembly on Thursday amid high drama.
The Nanavati report says the incident of burning S-6 coach of Sabarmati Express on February 27, 2002, was a pre-planned conspiracy and not an accident.
The first part of the report gave a clean chit to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi saying there was no evidence of the role of CM and any Gujarat minister in this case.
It also added that there was no evidence of them having not been able to provide protection, relief or rehabilitation to any riot victim
The report also said that 140 liters of petrol was purchased as the part of conspiracy to burn the bogey.
The report says Raza Kurkur and Salim Panwala had purchased petrol on the night of February 26 to be used in burning the bogey of Sabarmati Express.
The conspiracy was hatched at Aman guest house and meant to spread terror in the area, the report adds.
Doors of S-6 and S-7 bogey were forcibly opened and a person called Hassan Lalu threw objects which were burning inside the bogey, according to the report. It also said that Molvi Umarji planned the entire conspiracy.
Others named in the conspiracy are Shaukat Lalu, Imran Sheri, Rafique Batuck, Salim Zarda, Jabbir, Sheraj Bala.
As the report was being tabled, Congress legislators staged a walkout in the Assembly.
Meanwhile, spokesperson of Gujarat government and also the Health Minister of the state Jai Narayan Vyas said, "The report has clearly gone into details, analysed all the evidences and has come to the conclusion that there was no failure of machinery as far as maintenance of law and order is concerned."
"It had been conclusively established that Nanavati Commission was a commission, UC Banerjee Committee was just a committee not a commission," he added.
UC Banerjee, who had headed the Godhra probe, which was ordered by Railways Minister Lalu Prasad, reacted by saying, "I had examined witnesses and had found that there were no traces of petrol found. If there is any contradictory report nothing cannot be said about it, my analysis was based on the witnesses account."
What the UC Banerjee Commission had found:
Fire was accidental not deliberate.
Dismissed the theory that blaze was caused by outsiders.
Deaths caused by toxicity and suffocation.
There was no crowd at railway station; those present were just onlookers.
Claims that all entrances to coach were locked is a misconception.
No intelligence information on when kar sevaks were coming.
