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Godhra riots: Nanavati Commission submits report to Gujarat CM
Ahmedabad, Nov 18 (IBNS): Twelve years after the infamous Godhra riots, Justice GT Nanavati commission on Tuesday submitted its final report to Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel at her residence.
The Commission took 24 extensions in connection with the 2002 Godhra Train Carnage case and subsequent communal riots in the state before submitting the report to the Chief Minister.
The last extension to the committee ended on October 31. Last month, the Commission said there was no need of another extension, as its report was ready.
In 2008, the probe panel submitted one part of its findings about the Godhra train burning incident, reports said.
It had then stated that the burning of the S-6 coach of Sabarmati Express near Godhra railway station was a "planned conspiracy".
The Gujarat state government had on March 3, 2002 constituted the panel under the Commission of Inquiry Act comprising Justice KG Shah in the wake of the Godhra train carnage on February 27, 2002 and the subsequent communal riots across the state.
However, owing to certain objections, the Commission was later headed by retired judge GT Nanavati.
The commission investigated roles of then Chief Minister Narendra Modi, as per the Terms of Reference (TOR), his Cabinet colleagues of that time, senior government and police officers along with functionaries of some right wing organisations during the period of 2002 riots.
The infamous Gujarat riots of 2002 left hundreds of Muslims dead, injured and tortured and came as a blot in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rule in the state.
The riots were initiated by an incident of train burning in Godhra in which Hindus returning from Ayodhya were killed by a Muslim mob.
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