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Hindus were burnt in Godhra before: Verdict

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AHMEDABAD: The verdict, which gave death to 11 and life terms to 20 in the Godhra carnage case on Tuesday, substantiates the motive of the attack and the conspiracy partly by falling back on Godhra's history of communal riots. The target of the mob in Godhra on February 27, 2002 was only kar sevaks returning from Ayodhya and not other Hindus travelling on the Sabarmati Express, says the 826-page judgment. Fiftynine passengers of S-6 coach, mainly kar sevaks, were killed that day sparking off riots across the state.
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Although judge P R Patel does not pin-point the motive of the attack, he notes, "Godhra is known for its past history of communal riots...For Godhra, this is not the first incident of burning alive innocent persons belonging to Hindu community. Earlier, during many riot incidents in Godhra, persons were burnt alive and shops/houses etc came to be destroyed by fire." He cites 10 incidents of communal riots in Godhra since 1965 and noted that several riots broke out during the rath yatra in 1990 and 1992. The judge says shouting slogans like 'Pakistan Zindabad', 'Hindustan Murdabad' etc and announcements on loudspeaker from a nearby mosque clearly suggest a motive and preplanning to attack the train. The court has substantiated this conclusion by saying: "If the petrol was not kept ready in loose in carboys on previous night near Aman Guest House, it would not have been possible to reach with carboys within 5-10 minutes near S-6 coach...Not possible to gather Muslim persons with deadly weapons within short time to reach near A cabin on the railway tracks".
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Sort by: Newest | Oldest indian revolutionary patriot (bangalore) 05 Nov, 2011 11:13 PM my dear brothers and sisters i know you all feel great pain to see the loss of so many innocent lives and also feel great anger at the injustice donr. howsoever what all of you must keep in mind is that despite the religion of the innocent victims( be it Hindu or Muslim ) , they are all dead not because of hinduism or islam or hindus or muslims but because of a culture of intolerance that has spread like a disease of the mind. war of words or weapons is not going to bring them back. if the same god created all of us what is their a need to fight each other in his name. why fight over long forgotten episodes of history. isn.t it better to let the past be or lest the past will bury us. Also REMEMBER it was precisely when we were fighting amongst ourselves this way that the british came and made us their slaves. LET US PLS NOT REPEAT HISTORY'S MISTAKES. UNIVERSAL MAN (JAI HIND) 12 Mar, 2011 06:03 AM As the fanatics are doing their criminal and terrorist activities everywhere and want to justify their wrong doing on the basis of their religion, the US Senate has ordered a hearing on Muslim terrorism on their soil. At least, they have the guts to do that. India should also shed their protective and so called "Secular" mentality and institute a public enquiry into the terrorists operating from Indian soil and also having nexus with other such groups in the neighbouring countries, identify them and punish severely, so that they dare not repeat or even dream doing another Godhra type massacre. (India) 08 Mar, 2011 08:14 PM I wonder what kind of person is this Harish Salve ! They say he is a Christian , Is he ? Whatever it is he hasn't got an iota of Truth in him !! I think he was the Solicitor General then and could not know the Conspiracy hatched against Muslims to blame them and later to massacre them. And Nitish Kumar was the Railway Minister then. He too didn't do anything and it speaks volume as to how much he knows about this Modi Conspiracy that even today he doesn't want to touch him with a bargepole !!! Harish Salve is trashing Justice Banerjee's Report to keep all his Corporate Clients similar to many Muslims who want to forget everything and play ball with their Attackers !!!! Sometimes these Muslims join with such Hindutvadis and attack Christians too as I have seen on this Forum !!!!! MAROOF (DUBAI) 08 Mar, 2011 03:27 PM DONT WORRY MY DEAR INDIANS. ONE DAY FACTS WILL COME IN FRONT OF ALL.ONE DAY ANY ONE WILL COME AND SPILL THEBEANS ABOUT THE SANGH PRIVARS CONSPIRACY OF THE GODHRA CARNAGE. KHUDA KE PAS DER HAI MAGAR ANDEHR NAHI HAI. indian (kuwait) 08 Mar, 2011 01:40 PM the saffron sangh says banerjee was fed wrong data by UPA and he said it was a accident, now the modi, BJP are feeding wrong data and 31 are convicted....cannot trust both , the truth is something else for sure.. N.V.SANKARAN (THRISSUR, KERALA) replies to 10 Mar, 2011 08:46 PM Just as you "trash" Nanavati Commission report, the report of the SC appointed SIT based on which the special court passed their verdict, then, Harish Salve has equal right to "trash" the Bannerjee commission report just as all unbiased persons do, and we have a right to "trash" all your arguments, because you think that you are the only person in this world who can ever be right. Harish Salve told the truth that the Godhra train burning was a conspiracy hatched by some Muslim fundamentalists and the subsequent riots were violent reactions from agitated Hindus who did not need any inciting from anybody. How long are you going to remain in this denial mode? N.V.SANKARAN (THRISSUR, KERALA) replies to 10 Mar, 2011 08:46 PM Just as you "trash" Nanavati Commission report, the report of the SC appointed SIT based on which the special court passed their verdict, then, Harish Salve has equal right to "trash" the Bannerjee commission report just as all unbiased persons do, and we have a right to "trash" all your arguments, because you think that you are the only person in this world who can ever be right. Harish Salve told the truth that the Godhra train burning was a conspiracy hatched by some Muslim fundamentalists and the subsequent riots were violent reactions from agitated Hindus who did not need any inciting from anybody. How long are you going to remain in this denial mode? replies to N.V.SANKARAN 10 Mar, 2011 09:25 PM You believe whatever you think is the truth. Let me believe what I think is truth N.V.SANKARAN (THRISSUR, KERALA) replies to 10 Mar, 2011 12:33 PM

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If you can "trash" the Nanavati Commisiion report, the report of the SC appointed SIT, based on which the special court has pronounced their verdict, Harish Salve has equal fundamental right to express his views. You may hate him for not expressing the opinion that you wanted him to. But, that does not prove that whatever you are saying is right. Come out this self-righteous snobbishness and keep an open mind instead of spreading hatred. N.V.SANKARAN (THRISSUR, KERALA) replies to 09 Mar, 2011 01:19 PM If you can trash Nanavati Commission report, SC appointed SIT report on which the special court verdict is based, if you can trash whatever Modi and his supporters are saying, Harish salve has equal right to express his opinion and to trash the Banerjee commission report which was constituted by Lalu Prasad Yadav with an eye on the Bihar elections. And, as far I understand, Bannerjee commission report has been "trashed" even by the SC. Now, you will say that SC also is "infiltrated by RSS". Come out of your closet mentality and keep an open mind. But, how can you who does not have the guts even to be open about your own identity? As for Nitish Kumar, he is, in spite of his development agenda which he has emulated from Narendra Modi, he is an opportunist and a gutless person. Otherwise, how can he be in coalition with a party of which Narendra Modi is one of the most important leaders? NRK (Mumbai) replies to 09 Mar, 2011 12:25 AM yeh nameless, do you know what you want? Frist look within you, than around and than start putting questions. READ ALL COMMENTS

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