Commission gave clean clit to India’s PM Narendra Modi on 2002 Gujarat riots

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses an election rally in Amreli, near Ahmedabad. More than 157 million of the country's 900 million voters are eligible to cast ballots on the second of seven days of voting in the world's biggest election. Photo: AFP. Sketched by the Pan Pacific Agency.

NEW DELHI, Dec 11, 2019, India Today. The final report of Justice Nanavati-Mehta Commission on the 2002 Gujarat riots was tabled in the Gujarat Assembly by state Home Minister Pradipsinh Jadeja on Wednesday, India Today reported.

The first part of the report of the commission was submitted in the year 2008 by the Nanavati-Mehta Commission.

The first part covered the Godhra train burning incident in which it had concluded that burning of the S-6 coach of Sabarmati Express near Godhra Railway Station was a “planned conspiracy”.

The first part also gave clean chit to the then Chief Minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi.

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