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Delhi: The incident of fire in Sabarmati Express at
Godhra was not a deliberately attempted fire but an accidental
fire, Justice U C Banerjee said on Friday. The High Level
Committee headed by Honourable Banerjee, a retired Judge
of Supreme Court, who inquired into the incident of fire
in train No. 9166 Sabarmati Express at Godhra on February
27, 2002 submitted the final report to J P Batra, Chairman,
Railway Board here today. This High Level Committee was
constituted by the Government vide notification No. ERB-I/2004/23/29
dated September 4, 2004. The Committee had submitted its
interim report on January 17, 2005. It has been four years
since 59 people were burnt alive on board the Ahmedabad-bound
Sabarmati Express at Godhra in Gujarat on February 27, 2002.
The blaze killed 59 Hindu passengers, a majority of them
being Kar Sevaks of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) returning
from the temple town of Ayodhya, and triggered one of the
worst communal orgies in the country leaving 1,169 Muslims
and Hindus dead and thousands homeless. The Godhra incident
was then blamed on a mob of local Muslims and a Godhra-based
cleric was alleged to have been the main conspirator. Earlier,
the Nanavati Commission who was probing the Gujarat riots
had given orders to the Banerjee Commission, a high-powered
committee to submit reports on the Godhra incident and the
post- Godhra riots within two months. On December 22, 2005,
the Commission had ordered the Banerjee Commission to produce
copies of documents, including statements of witnesses and
its interim report.
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