This incident led to large scale violence against Muslims in entire Gujarat state of India.
With the change of the Govt at centre the report has also changed. In the previous report some miscreant Muslims were blamed for fire.
Godhra an accident: Banerjee report
The high-level inquiry into the blaze in a train in Godhra in which 59 persons were burnt to death that led to subsequent violence in Gujarat in 2002 has found that it was an “accidental fire”.
“It was not a deliberate attempt… and there is no evidence of any conspiracy,” the interim report said.
“With the elimination of the ‘petrol theory’, ‘miscreant activity theory’ as well as the ruling out of any possibility of ‘electrical fire’, the fire in S-6 coach of Sabarmati Express can at this stage be ascribed as an ‘accidental fire’,” Justice UC Banerjee Committee, appointed by Railway Minister Lalu Prasad, said in its report.
The BJP on Monday slammed the interim report of the Bannerjee Committee on the Sabarmati Express fire as an “extra constitutional effort to influence the course of justice” and said it was released in view of the coming Bihar Assembly elections.
Jaitley however said the report had no legal basis as a criminal trial was already on and a Commission of inquiry was probing the case. “The choice of the Judge (U C Bannerjee) was of the political establishment. The credibility of such investigations without public hearings, expert reports, witness and cross examinations is less,” he said.
An Indian train fire that killed up to 60 Hindus and sparked deadly religious riots in 2002 was started by accident, a government inquiry has said.
An investigating judge says there is ample evidence to suggest the fire started inside the train carriage.
Most reports have said the fire was caused by a Muslim mob who threw petrol bombs at the train.
The incident set off days of rioting in Gujarat state in which at least 1,000 people, most of them Muslims, died.
Early reports of the train fire had already indicated it may have been a fire started INSIDE one of the carriages and not due to any outside attack. Infact the people outside were probabaly trying to help in whatever way they could to extinguish it. However Modi and co were so bent on murdering Muslims that all hell was let loose on innocent civilians with official blessing.