^ It is ridiculous to doubt the credentials of Justice Nanavati. Just because it was appointed by the Gujarat govt does not make the Nanavati commission biased. One must remember that it is the same justice Nanavati who inquired into the anti- Sikh violence following the assassination of Mrs Indira Gandhi in 1984. On the basis of the Nanavati report, two Congress leaders, Sajjan Kumar and Jagadish Tytler were put in the dock. Tytler was even forced to resign from the Union Government.
Mods, if you feel that this discussion is useful pls split the thread. I do not want to hijack the original thread through this tangential discussion.
Your response has given a twist to the usless and unwanted seeds that you have sowed in your previous post by saying that Godhra fire was responsible for Gujrat riots, since discussing nanavathi's work in 1984 is not attol needed here.These two cases are completely different.
To prove that Godhra was accident and not preplannned i gave you crystal clear information to proof that your statement is baseless. . i would like to add further more to give more strong proofs and base to my previous post. I found few more interesting points from tehelka.
1) The two salesmen — Ranjitsingh Patel and Prabhatsingh Patel — who claimed they sold 140 litres of petrol to Muslim hawkers in their statements were actually bribed by the chief investigating officer, Noel Parmar, to say this and falsely identify people. TEHELKA caught Ranjitsingh on camera admitting to this. The amount paid to each was Rs 50,000.
2)The nine BJP members who identified 41 Muslims were actually not even present at the station that day. The TEHELKA undercover reporter caught two of them — Kakul Pathak and Murli Mulchandani — on camera, categorically admitting that they were not there that day, and that the police had filed statements in their name without their knowledge and they had colluded to serve Hindutva.
3) Illias Hussain and Anwar Kalandar who were arrested by the police and made to claim that they had turned the discs that stopped the train at Cabin A were actually tortured by Noel Parmar and his team into doing so. Illias told the TEHELKA reporter that while they were in custody, Parmar’s men would put a log on his leg and walk on it. Kalandar said they had put electric current on his genitals. A year after their statements to the police, the two had returned from enforced exile and retracted their statements through an affidavit in court.
4) Ajay Baria, the inexplicable Hindu vendor whose statement seemed to stitch the police’s theory neatly into place, is no longer allowed to live in Godhra. He is tailed by two policemen round the clock. TEHELKA could not speak to him directly but spoke to his mother. The mother said Baria had become a police witness out of fear.
5) Maulvi Umarji, whose alleged role in the conspiracy, is crucial to uphold the police’s theory was not present at the site during the incident. The allegations against him rest on two statements. Significantly, Jabir Bin Bahera, who first named him, later retracted his statement. Sikandar Siddik, the other witness who named Umarji, proved himself unreliable — he had named Maulvi Yakub Punjabi as well as Umarji. It turned out Punjabi wasn’t even in India on the day of the incident.
6) The forensic report had effectively demolished the police and State’s contention that S-6 was burnt by inflammable liquid either thrown in through broken windows or sprinkled outside the coach. The new and current theory that S-6 was burnt because of petrol thrown along its floor is based on the statements of three karsevaks who, just three months earlier, had said they had fainted due to the smoke and thus seen nothing.
With this iam closing this topic since i dont want to trouble our mods by digging it further and misleading this thread . :)