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Today anyone on national TV can state
facts and data which go unchallenged
and are accepted to be gospel truth.
This is true for investigations, facts on
Godhra train carnage and the post-
Godhra riots of 2002 in Gujarat. For
nearly a decade the narrative on the
tragic events of 2002 has been one-
sided with no attempt to correct
discrepancies.
Timeline of SIT:
The investigations in post-Godhra riots
of 2002 have been primarily handled by
the SIT (Special Investigation Team) set
up by the Supreme Court on March 26,
2008, headed by former CBI Chief RK
Raghavan.
On April 7, 2009, the Supreme Court, on
the basis of a complaint by Zakia Jafri,
wife of Ehsaan Jafri, the Congress MP
Killed in the riots, asked the SIT to
inquire into her accusations. In the
petition before the Supreme Court, she
had levelled various allegations against
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi
that he personally and willfully allowed
the riots of 2002 and the whole State
machinery including the police was
complicit.
On January 19, 2010, the Supreme Court
directed the Gujarat Government to give
all documents to the SIT nearly
14,000 pages of PCR reports and IB
inputs. In the meantime, the SIT filed its
first report before the Supreme Court on
May 12, 2010 then another one on
November 17, 2011. These were Interim
Reports. Further the SC directed SIT on
March 15, 2011, to look into the findings
of Amicus Curiae (Senior Advocate Raju
Ramachandran) and give its report on
that basis. The SIT, after examining a
plethora of evidence like call logs,
locations of various officials through cell
towers, video evidence, testimonies,
eyewitnesses, PCR records, intelligence
inputs, Army logs, depositions of
Ministers (including the Chief Minister
Narendra Modi) came to the conclusion
that Narendra Modi had no role in the
riots of 2002 post-Godhra riots and
submitted a closure report in the
Supreme Court to that effect in February
2012.
Now the closure report has been
challenged by Zakia Jafri by way of a
protest petition before the Ahmedabad
trial court, asking for the scrapping of
this SIT Report claiming that it has not
considered vital facts, documents and
records that it ought to have.
Findings of the SIT in the closure report:
The SIT, after examining a lot of
evidence, came to the conclusion that
Narendra Modi had no role in the riots of
the 2002 post-Godhra train carnage and
submitted a closure report in Supreme
Court to that effect in February 2012.
The various findings of the SIT report in
brief are as follows:
1. Godhra Train Carnage:
The Godhra train carnage happened at
9:00 am on the morning of February 27,
2002, when the Sabarmati Express
carrying Kar Sevaks from Ayodhya to
Ahmedabad was set on fire by a mob
from outside as it left the Godhra
Station. The Nanavati Commission made
to look into this incident, has
categorically come to conclusion that it
was a pre-planned conspiracy where a
huge mob of people had made
arrangements an evening in advance to
that effect, buying jerry cans and filling
them with inflammable material etc. The
court accepted the findings of the
commission and 11 men were given
death sentences and 20-to-life
imprisonments, holding it to be a pre-
planned conspiracy. The said findings
have also been accepted by SIT.
2. Preventive measures taken by Gujarat
Government (February 27, 2002):
Chief Minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi
got the news at 9:00 am on February 27,
2002, about the Godhra train carnage
from Ashok Narayan (Additional Chief
Secretary, Home). Then at 10:30 am
Modi held a meeting with Goardan
Zadafia (MoS, Home), Ashok Narayan
(ACS), DGP Police, PC Pande CP
Ahmadabad. Since reports of casualties
were not fully available the Chief
Minister emphasised no culprits be
allowed to escape.
Modi directed that medical aid be given
to all surviving passengers and curfew
be declared in Godhra and nearby areas
to avoid untoward incidents of
communal violence. The Chief Minister
directed that all senior officials and extra
force be sent to Godhra as well and after
addressing the Gujarat Assembly, he
reached Godhra at 4:30 pm.
The first alert message of February 27,
2002 from the Home Department
covered the need to take precautionary
measures adequate
police bandobast and preventive
measures, including instructions to
impose prohibitory orders in disturbed
areas. All Police Commissioners, District
Magistrates and Superintendents of
Police directed to remain in the
headquarters and monitor the situation.
In order to cope with the emerging law
and order situation during the Gujarat
Bandh call given by BJP, VHP and
others to protest the massacre at Godhra
Station, request was made to the
Government of India to provide 10
companies of Central Paramilitary
Forces in addition to four companies of
Rapid Action Force. Large-scale
preventive arrests of Hindus and
Muslims started on February 27, the day
of the Godhra incident. On the day of the
Godhra massacre, 217 preventive arrests
were made, out of which 137 were
Hindus and 80 were Muslims.
The entire police force of 6,000 was
deployed in sensitive areas of Gujarat on
the very first day. The Army was alerted
on February 27 itself but was not
available due to Operation Parakram in
the wake of the Parliament attack.
3. Measures taken by Gujarat
Government during riots:
Narendra Modi held a meeting in the
Assembly on February 28, 2002 given it
was Budget Days (February 27 and 28)
and took stock of the situation. The SIT
has stated that the request for additional
security forces were made to then
Congress-ruled States of Madhya
Pradesh, Rajasthan and Maharashtra by
Gujarat Government on February 28 but
were refused.
Seeing the situation go out
of control on February 28, Modi called
an emergency meeting at 1 pm when he
called then Prime Minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee to deploy the Army and a fax
to that effect was sent to the Defence
Ministry by 2:30 pm. Army troops were
airlifted in 40 aircraft from the border
and started landing in Ahmedabad by
midnight when then Defence Minister
George Fernandes was there to supervise
their deployment and shoot-at-sight
orders were also issued by the Gujarat
Government. On the evening of February
28, a call for calm and restraint and
harmony was made by the Gujarat Chief
Minister on Doordarshan and a Press
release was issued to that effect as well.
The officials of the Government of
Gujarat met George Fernandes at 8:30
am on March 1, 2002 and requested that
paramilitary forces and BSF also be
deployed in Gujarat. Five companies of
paramilitary forces were subsequently
deployed. Then the Chief Minister met
the Governor, issued instructions for safe
passage to Haj pilgrims and even met a
delegation of Congress leaders where he
assured them of the best possible help
in the situation. Later Modi convened
meetings, announced compensation for
victims, discussed relief packages for
camps being run by NGOs and gave
directions for essential medical including
hospitals and other services to be
provided to people in the riot-affected
areas. By the evening of March 1, the
Army was fully deployed within 24
hours of the riots starting.
Further, on Page 448 of the SIT Report, it
has been stated that since the Gujarat
Government asked for police from three
neighbouring States on February 28 but
the States were unable to do so in
addition to 26 Army battalions deployed
in the State, six companies of CISF, 11
companies of BSF, 4 companies of RAF
were deployed till March 3, 2002. So it
can be said that there was no delay
whatsoever in requisitioning of Army and
its deployment in State as and when
they realised on 28/02/2002 that
situation was out of control. More
significantly Union Defence Minister
arrived on 28th night so that Army
could take positions before any delay.
4. Other findings of the SIT:
» There were reports that the
]victims bodies of Godhra train
carnage were paraded in
Ahmedabad to create violence. The
said allegations have been
dismissed by the SIT, holding that
victims bodies were transported
late at night around 3 am to a
hospital on the outskirts of
Ahmedabad so that no one could
see them. Many of the victims
belonged to Ahmedabad so the
bodies were handed over to their
families early morning after
Panchnamas.
»After examining the PCR Records
of various PCR and Commissioners
of Police, the SIT came to the
conclusion that all efforts were
made to save Jafri by the police
and as per call logs, no calls were
made to Commissioner of Police
Ahmedabad or any other official.
» Regarding the action-reaction
theory, the SIT has said the said
statement was quoted out of
context even though Modi never
justified violence. He later issued a
clarification to the distortion, which
was published in newspapers days
later.
» That the SIT has also held that
Modi never told the police to go
slow and allow the violence for
Hindus to vent their anger as IPS
officer Sanjiv Bhatt later claimed.
The statement has been held to be
fiction or imagination, as Bhatt was
not present in the meeting on
February 27 as per the records and
call logs. lol busted
» As per official reports of
Government of India in 2005, 790
Muslims and 254 Hindus died in
the riots, 223 were missing and
nearly 80,000 Hindus and 18,000
Muslims were taken into preventive
police custody during the days of
rioting.
To conclude, there are many facets of
the SIT report which point to the fact
that though 2002 was a sad chapter in
the history of India, unlike many
massacres and riots in the country since
independence like 1984, Delhi; Nellie
massacre; Hashimpura (Meerut);
Bhagalpur etc. the 2002 riots were
controlled within 48 hours with swift and
effective action. To assume that certain
records were destroyed or hidden is a
fallacy as the SIT has gone through
every shred of evidence and the
Narendra Modi Government, as per the
SITs findings, took all preventive actions
it could to control the riots effectively.
http://www.niticentral.com/2013/04/17/timeline-gujarat-2002-67291.html
facts and data which go unchallenged
and are accepted to be gospel truth.
This is true for investigations, facts on
Godhra train carnage and the post-
Godhra riots of 2002 in Gujarat. For
nearly a decade the narrative on the
tragic events of 2002 has been one-
sided with no attempt to correct
discrepancies.
Timeline of SIT:
The investigations in post-Godhra riots
of 2002 have been primarily handled by
the SIT (Special Investigation Team) set
up by the Supreme Court on March 26,
2008, headed by former CBI Chief RK
Raghavan.
On April 7, 2009, the Supreme Court, on
the basis of a complaint by Zakia Jafri,
wife of Ehsaan Jafri, the Congress MP
Killed in the riots, asked the SIT to
inquire into her accusations. In the
petition before the Supreme Court, she
had levelled various allegations against
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi
that he personally and willfully allowed
the riots of 2002 and the whole State
machinery including the police was
complicit.
On January 19, 2010, the Supreme Court
directed the Gujarat Government to give
all documents to the SIT nearly
14,000 pages of PCR reports and IB
inputs. In the meantime, the SIT filed its
first report before the Supreme Court on
May 12, 2010 then another one on
November 17, 2011. These were Interim
Reports. Further the SC directed SIT on
March 15, 2011, to look into the findings
of Amicus Curiae (Senior Advocate Raju
Ramachandran) and give its report on
that basis. The SIT, after examining a
plethora of evidence like call logs,
locations of various officials through cell
towers, video evidence, testimonies,
eyewitnesses, PCR records, intelligence
inputs, Army logs, depositions of
Ministers (including the Chief Minister
Narendra Modi) came to the conclusion
that Narendra Modi had no role in the
riots of 2002 post-Godhra riots and
submitted a closure report in the
Supreme Court to that effect in February
2012.
Now the closure report has been
challenged by Zakia Jafri by way of a
protest petition before the Ahmedabad
trial court, asking for the scrapping of
this SIT Report claiming that it has not
considered vital facts, documents and
records that it ought to have.
Findings of the SIT in the closure report:
The SIT, after examining a lot of
evidence, came to the conclusion that
Narendra Modi had no role in the riots of
the 2002 post-Godhra train carnage and
submitted a closure report in Supreme
Court to that effect in February 2012.
The various findings of the SIT report in
brief are as follows:
1. Godhra Train Carnage:
The Godhra train carnage happened at
9:00 am on the morning of February 27,
2002, when the Sabarmati Express
carrying Kar Sevaks from Ayodhya to
Ahmedabad was set on fire by a mob
from outside as it left the Godhra
Station. The Nanavati Commission made
to look into this incident, has
categorically come to conclusion that it
was a pre-planned conspiracy where a
huge mob of people had made
arrangements an evening in advance to
that effect, buying jerry cans and filling
them with inflammable material etc. The
court accepted the findings of the
commission and 11 men were given
death sentences and 20-to-life
imprisonments, holding it to be a pre-
planned conspiracy. The said findings
have also been accepted by SIT.
2. Preventive measures taken by Gujarat
Government (February 27, 2002):
Chief Minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi
got the news at 9:00 am on February 27,
2002, about the Godhra train carnage
from Ashok Narayan (Additional Chief
Secretary, Home). Then at 10:30 am
Modi held a meeting with Goardan
Zadafia (MoS, Home), Ashok Narayan
(ACS), DGP Police, PC Pande CP
Ahmadabad. Since reports of casualties
were not fully available the Chief
Minister emphasised no culprits be
allowed to escape.
Modi directed that medical aid be given
to all surviving passengers and curfew
be declared in Godhra and nearby areas
to avoid untoward incidents of
communal violence. The Chief Minister
directed that all senior officials and extra
force be sent to Godhra as well and after
addressing the Gujarat Assembly, he
reached Godhra at 4:30 pm.
The first alert message of February 27,
2002 from the Home Department
covered the need to take precautionary
measures adequate
police bandobast and preventive
measures, including instructions to
impose prohibitory orders in disturbed
areas. All Police Commissioners, District
Magistrates and Superintendents of
Police directed to remain in the
headquarters and monitor the situation.
In order to cope with the emerging law
and order situation during the Gujarat
Bandh call given by BJP, VHP and
others to protest the massacre at Godhra
Station, request was made to the
Government of India to provide 10
companies of Central Paramilitary
Forces in addition to four companies of
Rapid Action Force. Large-scale
preventive arrests of Hindus and
Muslims started on February 27, the day
of the Godhra incident. On the day of the
Godhra massacre, 217 preventive arrests
were made, out of which 137 were
Hindus and 80 were Muslims.
The entire police force of 6,000 was
deployed in sensitive areas of Gujarat on
the very first day. The Army was alerted
on February 27 itself but was not
available due to Operation Parakram in
the wake of the Parliament attack.
3. Measures taken by Gujarat
Government during riots:
Narendra Modi held a meeting in the
Assembly on February 28, 2002 given it
was Budget Days (February 27 and 28)
and took stock of the situation. The SIT
has stated that the request for additional
security forces were made to then
Congress-ruled States of Madhya
Pradesh, Rajasthan and Maharashtra by
Gujarat Government on February 28 but
were refused.
Seeing the situation go outof control on February 28, Modi called
an emergency meeting at 1 pm when he
called then Prime Minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee to deploy the Army and a fax
to that effect was sent to the Defence
Ministry by 2:30 pm. Army troops were
airlifted in 40 aircraft from the border
and started landing in Ahmedabad by
midnight when then Defence Minister
George Fernandes was there to supervise
their deployment and shoot-at-sight
orders were also issued by the Gujarat
Government. On the evening of February
28, a call for calm and restraint and
harmony was made by the Gujarat Chief
Minister on Doordarshan and a Press
release was issued to that effect as well.
The officials of the Government of
Gujarat met George Fernandes at 8:30
am on March 1, 2002 and requested that
paramilitary forces and BSF also be
deployed in Gujarat. Five companies of
paramilitary forces were subsequently
deployed. Then the Chief Minister met
the Governor, issued instructions for safe
passage to Haj pilgrims and even met a
delegation of Congress leaders where he
assured them of the best possible help
in the situation. Later Modi convened
meetings, announced compensation for
victims, discussed relief packages for
camps being run by NGOs and gave
directions for essential medical including
hospitals and other services to be
provided to people in the riot-affected
areas. By the evening of March 1, the
Army was fully deployed within 24
hours of the riots starting.
Further, on Page 448 of the SIT Report, it
has been stated that since the Gujarat
Government asked for police from three
neighbouring States on February 28 but
the States were unable to do so in
addition to 26 Army battalions deployed
in the State, six companies of CISF, 11
companies of BSF, 4 companies of RAF
were deployed till March 3, 2002. So it
can be said that there was no delay
whatsoever in requisitioning of Army and
its deployment in State as and when
they realised on 28/02/2002 that
situation was out of control. More
significantly Union Defence Minister
arrived on 28th night so that Army
could take positions before any delay.
4. Other findings of the SIT:
» There were reports that the
]victims bodies of Godhra train
carnage were paraded in
Ahmedabad to create violence. The
said allegations have been
dismissed by the SIT, holding that
victims bodies were transported
late at night around 3 am to a
hospital on the outskirts of
Ahmedabad so that no one could
see them. Many of the victims
belonged to Ahmedabad so the
bodies were handed over to their
families early morning after
Panchnamas.
»After examining the PCR Records
of various PCR and Commissioners
of Police, the SIT came to the
conclusion that all efforts were
made to save Jafri by the police
and as per call logs, no calls were
made to Commissioner of Police
Ahmedabad or any other official.
» Regarding the action-reaction
theory, the SIT has said the said
statement was quoted out of
context even though Modi never
justified violence. He later issued a
clarification to the distortion, which
was published in newspapers days
later.
» That the SIT has also held that
Modi never told the police to go
slow and allow the violence for
Hindus to vent their anger as IPS
officer Sanjiv Bhatt later claimed.
The statement has been held to be
fiction or imagination, as Bhatt was
not present in the meeting on
February 27 as per the records and
call logs. lol busted
» As per official reports of
Government of India in 2005, 790
Muslims and 254 Hindus died in
the riots, 223 were missing and
nearly 80,000 Hindus and 18,000
Muslims were taken into preventive
police custody during the days of
rioting.
To conclude, there are many facets of
the SIT report which point to the fact
that though 2002 was a sad chapter in
the history of India, unlike many
massacres and riots in the country since
independence like 1984, Delhi; Nellie
massacre; Hashimpura (Meerut);
Bhagalpur etc. the 2002 riots were
controlled within 48 hours with swift and
effective action. To assume that certain
records were destroyed or hidden is a
fallacy as the SIT has gone through
every shred of evidence and the
Narendra Modi Government, as per the
SITs findings, took all preventive actions
it could to control the riots effectively.
http://www.niticentral.com/2013/04/17/timeline-gujarat-2002-67291.html
, because if that happens you lot will be wiped off in these elections.
