2002 riots media cover-up

Gujarat 2002 was the sharpest slap on the face of Indian Islamists who drew fake pride from the bogus claim of ruling Hindu India for a thousand years.

The Nanavati and Mehta report prepared extensively brings out the truths and says that Narendra Modi led State government has no role in instigating the riots of Gujarat in 2002 and gives a clean chit.

Very few people remember now that a particular, biased section of the media had tried to oust the BJP from power at the Centre in March 2002 itself by inventing an ‘Ashthi Yatra’.

These facts of Mau must never be allowed to be forgotten. It was of course, a travesty of justice that not a single person was convicted by the trial court, and all 32 accused, including MLA Mukhtar Ansari were acquitted on 15 September 2006.

the Supreme Court today threw out journalist Rana Ayyub’s book ‘Gujarat Files’ which was cited by Centre for Public Interest Litigation, the NGO which had filed the PIL challenging conviction of the accused.

Disgraced former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt has been sentenced to life imprisonment in a custodial death case of 1989 by a Jamnagar court. This led...