Reality of Sabarmati express burning(godhra voilence) by wikipedia. The The Banerjee Committee, started by Lalu Prasad Yadavand headed up by a retired Supreme Court judge, Umesh Chandra Banerjee, [ 25 ]concluded that the fire had started inside the train and was most likely accidental. However, the committee was declared illegal, unconstitutional and outside the jurisdiction of the Union governmentby the Gujarat High Courtin 2006. [ 26 ]The NGO Concerned Citizens Tribunal(CCT), headed by Teesta Setalvadalso concluded that the fire had been an accident. [ 27 ] [ 28 ]However, many findings of the CCT provided by Teesta Setalvadhave been called into question by the Special Investigation Team. [ 29 ]Another investigation, which was commissioned by the Gujarat government and headed by G. T. Nanavati, a retired Supreme Court judge. This investigation known as the Shah-Nanavati commission concluded that the attacks on the train had been pre-planned and was the result of a conspiracy by locals. [ 30 ]In a video recording released by the magazine Tehelkathe council to the Gujarat government Arvind Pandya stated that the Shah-Nanavati commission would fall in favour of the BJP, as Shah was their man and Nanavati could be bribed. [ 31 ]Independent commentators have concluded that the fire itself was almost certainly an accident, and that the initial cause of the conflagration will never be determined. [ 7 ] [ 32 ]According to Columbia Professor of History Ainslie Thomas Embree the official version of the attack on the train, that it was organized, pre-planned and carried out by people under orders from Pakistan is entirely baseless. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Gujarat_violence
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