2002 riots: Nanavati panel report not tabled before assembly

The Gujarat Assembly's budget session ended here today but findings of the '2002 riot probe panel' were not tabled though it was submitted four months ago.
The 2002 riots, in which more than 1,000 people were killed, was probed for around 14 years by a retired Supreme court judge G T Nanavati and accordingly the final report was submitted to Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel in November 2014.
Generally, such inquiry panel reports are presented in the assembly session once they are submitted to the government.
Repeated calls made by PTI to Gujarat government spokesperson and minister Nitin Patel to comment on the issue evoked no response.

"This commission was formed to hide the negligence of the Gujarat state government at the time of riots which took lives of more than 1,000 people. They did not place it before assembly today as a part of their delay tactics so that the issue will become a non-issue, thus saving themselves from political anger," Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee spokesperson Manish Doshi told PTI.
"Forming fact-finding commissions was nothing but a face-saving exercise of the Gujarat government. Whether it was the Nanavati probe panel to find out the truth of the 2002 riots or the Justice Sugnya Bhatt commission to probe the alleged snooping case, there were all nothing but eye wash," Doshi said.

In 2008, the Nanavati inquiry panel had submitted one part of its finding with regard to the Godhra train burning incident, in which it had concluded that the burning of S-6 coach of Sabarmati Express near Godhra railway station was a "planned conspiracy".