The Nanavati-Mehta Commission submitted its final report on the 2002 Godhra Train Carnage that resulted in communal riots causing immense loss to life and property in the Gujarat.
The two- member commission comprising retired Supreme Court judge Justice G T Nanavati and retired Gujarat High Court judge Justice Akshay Mehta submitted the report to Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel.
Refusing to give any details on the report, Justice Nanavati said it is up to the government to decide the further course of action.
“The reports have been submitted. It is up to the government to decide whether they will publish it for the public,” said Nanavati.
The first part of the Nanavati Commission report was tabled in the Gujarat Legislative Assembly on September 25, 2002 which said that the burning of S-6 coach of the Sabarmati Express on February 27, 2002, was a pre-planned conspiracy and not an accident.
The Commission, which went into the burnt coach in which 58 Hindu ‘kar sevaks’ returning from Ayodhya were killed, said in its report that the pre-planned conspiracy was hatched at the Aman Guest House in Godhra.
The probe panel also gave a clean chit to the then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and the state police in the subsequent riots that claimed over 1,000 lives.
The commission was set up in 2002 and it submitted the first part of its report after six years.
This finding of the two-member Commission goes contrary to a probe headed by another former Supreme Court judge Justice U C Banerjee, set up by the railway ministry that the coach burning was purely an accident.
—ANI