Prime Minister Narendra Modi has received clean chit from Justice Nanavati-Mehta Commission in 2002 post-Godhra Gujarat riots.
Home Minister Pradipsinh Jadeja tabled the final report of Justice Nanavati -Mehta Commission on the 2002 Gujarat riots in the Gujarat Assembly on Wednesday. The report mentions that the post-Godhra train burning riots were not ‘organized’. The reports have been submitted on basis of the incident and the action taken by the government.
The first part of the report, that was submitted in 2008, mentioned about the Godhra train burning incident, in which it had concluded that burning of the coach of Sabarmati Express near Godhra Railway Station was a ‘planned conspiracy’.
However, the first part also gave clean chit to the then Chief Minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi.
The Nanavati-Mehta Commission is the commission of inquiry appointed by the government of Gujarat to probe the Godhra train burning incident of 27 February 2002.
The burning of a train in Godhra on 27 February 2002, caused deaths of 58 pilgrims returning from Ayodhya. According to official figures, 1,044 were killed, 223 were missing, and 2,500 were injured in the riots.