Manch’s own report trashes conspiracy theory behind Godhra incident

The Jan Sangharsh Manch (JSM) on Friday rejected Part one of the Justice Nanavati Commission’s report on the Godhra incident. It said the report was a product of “unfortunate, manipulation of evidence” to reach a pre-ordained conclusion.

The JSM released its own report based on all the evidence and material placed before the Commission. It said the burning of the S6 coach of the Sabarmati Express on February 27, 2002 was an accident and not a part of the pre planned conspiracy as is being stated in the Nanavati report.

“The Nanavati-Mehta report has overlooked the wealth of evidence on record, taken them selectively, relied heavily on the investigation carried by Noel Parmar, which was not accepted by the Supreme Court and come to its own conclusion,” said Mukul Sinha, who appeared on behalf of the JSM before the Commission.

The JSM said that while the Nanavati Commission had rejected almost point wise the accident theory, it had failed to provide any reasons for doing so.

Sinha said: “The conspiracy theory has many holes. If the train had come on time instead of being five and a half hours late, where would the mob come from? Also, no body knew that karsevaks were coming back by the train. There are many questions like this that have been brushed aside by the Commission.”

The JSM pointed out that the Commission had wrongly come to the conclusion that there was no attempt of abduction of Sophia Banu by karsevaks at the Godhra Railway station.

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