Bhopal, February 22: Senior VHP leader Pravin Togadia today asked Gujarat government to file an appeal in the High Court against acquittals in the 2002 Godhra train burning case and demanded capital punishment for all those who were accused for the carnage.
“If all 95 (sic) persons don’t get capital punishment, no justice will be done to Hindus,” Togadia told reporters here, after the special court in Ahmedabad convicted 31 accused, and acquitted 63.
He said the court had accepted the conspiracy theory, which VHP had been putting forth from the beginning.
For a decade, there were “political moves” to save the accused, the VHP leader said, adding that Justice Banerjee Commission, which had concluded that fire was accidental, was one such attempt.
Accusing Congress-led Centre of not doing anything for the victims, he praised Narendra Modi government in Gujarat for providing some relief.
–Agencies