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#SupremeCourtofIndia to hear bail pleas of several convicts serving life imprisonment in the 2002 Godhra train burning case...The bench led by CJI DY Chandrachud to also hear a batch of pleas of the convicts challenging their convictions #Godhra Image
CJI to Sr Adv Sanjay Hegde: Tell us how many of these 13 convicts..who are those whose death sentences commuted... Then segregate the convicts on the role in the offence and make a tabular statement..

Hegde: We will do it right away

CJI: We will keep it at 3 pm
SG Mehta: is it just a case of stone pelting ? They have bolted the door of train from outside and then pelted stones..

Sr Adv Sanjay Hegde: but they have served 17 years in prison..

SG: But life is life...

#SupremeCourtofIndia
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THE MYSTERY OF #GodhraMassacre

21 years ago in 2002, the #Godhra incident took place on this very day. On this day, the Sabarmati Express train was set on fire at Godhra. A crazed mob set fire to a coach of #SabarmatiExpress departing from #Godhra railway station in #Gujarat. Image
In this incident, 59 returnees from #Ayodhya were killed and riots broke out across Gujarat.
Hindu pilgrims were returning from Ayodhya in the #SabarmatiExpress. On 27 February 2002, the train reached Godhra station in #panchmahal district of Gujarat. Image
As the train was about to depart, someone pulled the chain and stopped the train, and then threw stones and set fire to the coach. 59 people lost their lives in the S-6 coach fire. FIR registered against 1500 people in #GodhraMassacre. Image
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Thread: The #Massacre at Best Bakery
On March 01, 2002, the Best Bakery area was attacked and burned down by a deranged mob of #RSS situated in Hanuman Tekri. The Best Bakery case was a symbol of the 2002 #Gujarat carnage.
Its controversial nature attracted the allegation of the State Government, implying the government’s compliance in it. During the incident, a mob targeted the Sheikh family who ran the bakery and had taken refuge inside...,
...resulting in the deaths of 14 (11 #Muslims including family members and 3 Hindu employees of the bakery). This case has come to symbolize the carnage in 2002# Gujrat riots (and the alleged State Government complicity in it) that followed the #Godhra train massacre.
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Thread: The Horrific Killing of Ehsan Jafri in the #GulbargMassacre
On 28 February 2002 Ehsan Jafri was gruesomely murdered by a feverish mob. Slaughtered along with him were around seventy women, children and men who had taken shelter with the man....
...whom they had believed was influential enough to save their lives from a colossal armed mob baying for blood.
But he was dragged away by the horde, his limbs were cut off from his body before he was burned. His family could not even locate his remains.
He was a renowned poet, labor leader and politician who was killed in infamous #Gulbarg Society massacre in Gujarat 2002 riots. #Modi, then the CM of Gujarat, was accused of doing little to stop the anti-Muslim riots -an allegation he has always denied.
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THE MYSTERY OF #GodhraMassacre

21 years ago in 2002, the #Godhra incident took place on this very day. On this day, the Sabarmati Express train was set on fire at Godhra. A crazed mob set fire to a coach of #SabarmatiExpress departing from #Godhra railway station in #Gujarat.
In this incident, 59 returnees from #Ayodhya were killed and riots broke out across Gujarat.
Hindu pilgrims were returning from Ayodhya in the #SabarmatiExpress. On 27 February 2002, the train reached Godhra station in #panchmahal district of Gujarat.
As the train was about to depart, someone pulled the chain and stopped the train, and then threw stones and set fire to the coach. 59 people lost their lives in the S-6 coach fire. FIR registered against 1500 people in #GodhraMassacre.
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Know the truth about Godhra kaand.
Retweet this thread n let it reach the liars #BBC
#bbcdocumentry
27th Feb 2002, Sabarmati express arrived @ Godhra at 7:40 am,4hrs late.
Mob of 1200+ Islamists approach the coach S6 n stone pelting it,n throwing petrol rags. 1/n
#GodhraNarsanhar
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The coaches were locked from outside n set the train on fire. Which killed 59 Hindus.
31 Islamists were found guilty. 1 made a judicial confession that it was a planned attack on karsewaks.
On the basis of eye witnesses n survivors, the trial court gave death penalty to 11.
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However, the islamists n its sympathizers concocted several theories, like short circuit, scuffle between karsevaks n local Muslim vendors or train vendors, Hindu men molesting a Muslim girl etc.
But Nanavati-Mehta commission rejected it and quoted, "About 60 ltrs of...
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The congies 🤚 & commies 🛠 of #India are extremely stupid! 🤦‍♂️

They are SO stupid that they believe the #BBCDocumentary will hurt the (khaki) chaddies 🩳 !

The congie & commie morons don't even know that the #HindenburgReport is what actually & truly HURTS the chaddie horde! 😐
Electoral #politics is just like multi-dimensional #chess, even where politics is highly criminalised, like 🇮🇳.

To win a game, one not only has to have the moves to do so, but also have the sharpness, smartness, shrewdness & even cunning to outwit the opponent at their own game!
The congie 🤚 & commie 🛠 idiots of #India actually believe that they can hurt the (khaki) chaddie 🩳 horde by making more noise on the #BBCDocumentary.

Nothing indicates the sheer stupidity of the congies & commies of India more than this! 🤦‍♂️

Why did the chaddies ban it?
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I'm not in favour of unprovoked violence. But #GodhraRiots was started by Islamists by burning alive Hindus in a train coach- a tragedy which has no parallel in modern human history. In all the current discussion around Godhra, this seminal event is conveniently skipped. 1/n
The riots that ensued, the riots which was instigated by Islamists (like as always, backed by white collar Muslims) had proportionate response- people have the right to & they should never surrender this right. This event marked the beginning of new resilient Hindu society 2/n
which will not be a mute spectator to the carnage of their kith & kin by Islamists- happening since centuries. Godhra was Hindu society's 'enough is enough' moment, which learnt its lessons (albeit slow) from Kashmir Pundit genocide again by Islamists 3/n
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#NarendraModi
The man who had the acumen to take on the dynasty and awaken the sleeping Hindu populace.
I want to share my observations with you,some may agree some may not
Ahmed Patel,a shrewd politician obviously wanted his hold on his state Gujarat to remain unchallenged. Everyone knows he was one of the brains behind the dynasty,so he must have been alarmed to see a common man spear heading the Bjp campaign in Gujarat
He must have started observing him very keenly when Modiji was given important organizational work in the party,including Advani ji's Rath yatra. Like all politicians,Modi ji must have been scrutinized and I can just imagine the alarm/shock Patel must have felt when he found out
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#CJI Chandrachud led bench has extended bail for Abdul Raheman Abdul Majid, a convict who co-conspired in carrying out the Godhra Train Carnage, on account of his wife suffering from Cancer & Children being specially abled #Godhra
Bail to Abdul Raheman Abdul Majid extended till March 31, 2024 @LawBeatInd
Abdul Raheman Abdul Majid along with others, together pelted stones on the fire fighter who tried to extinguish the fire which burnt alive the Kar Sevaks and other passengers travelling in S­6 coach by spraying petrol on it.
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🪡 While upholding the findings of the Special Investigation Team that gave a clean chit to @narendramodi in the #ZakiaJafri case, SC added that SIT had “come out with flying colours”.

Q: When exactly did Modi learn of the massacre on 28 Feb 2002—and how well did SIT quiz him?
2️⃣ In his reply to SIT in 2010, Modi claimed he learnt of the #GulbergSociety massacre only at a meeting that evening, at 8.30 pm.

Really?

While a mob of thousands attacked a Muslim pocket in #Ahmedabad, the CM—who *also* held the home portfolio—was unaware for 5 full hours?
3️⃣ The implausibility of Modi’s defence is brought out by former @IndianExpress and @timesofindia legal affairs editor Manoj Mitta.

In his 2014 book, ‘The Fiction of Fact-Finding: Modi and Godhra’, Mitta reveals how #SIT bought into Modi’s claim with barely any challenge.
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The darkest period of India’s history post 1947 was endured for 21 months beginning this day in 1975. The fascist tendencies in the @INCIndia led by the then PM Smt. Indira Gandhi unleashed rule of terror by putting the entire opposition in prison. #Emergency1975
2/The fascist tendencies of the @INCIndia continued into 21 century.

Instead of working to get justice for karsevaks burnt alive (women & children, in particular)in #Godhra, these tendencies supported non-state actors to file concocted cases against the then Guj CM @narendramodi
3/ Multiple cases in various courts were filed. For over 16 years relentlessly pursued with the zeal of well funded #NGOs

#SupremeCourt on this matter in a related case y’day observed,“a coalesced effort of the disgruntled officials of the State of Gujarat along with others…”
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A well-armed 2000-strong mob of Muslims roasted to death 59 Hindus including 25 women & 15 children in #Godhra on 27 Feb 2002 at 8 am #Godhra was well-known for riots & fanaticism since 1927. Muslim magazine Milli Gazette also reported these incidents milligazette.com/Archives/15042… (1)
27 Feb 2002 train burning was not the last fanatic act in #Godhra On 13 Mar 2002 a Muslim mob again attacked Hindus in Godhra timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Mob-atta… In Sept 2003 Ganesh idol immersion saw stone pelting & conflicts between Hindus & Muslims in #Godhra timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Curfew-i… (2)
What a 16 yr girl who survived the barbaric #Godhra attack said on the ferocity of the horrific massacre: gujaratriots.com/index.php/2008… 27 Feb 2002 train burning was not the first, nor last time that #Godhra saw fanaticism. Read to know gujaratriots.com/index.php/2016… #GujaratRiots (3)
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20 years to #Godhra_Carnage & they’re called victims?
#GodhraMassacre is an accident/ an inside-job to execute a pre-planned violence against Muslims?
Burning alive Hindus is a spontaneous reaction of alleged misbehaviour of Hindus with Muslim women at #Godhra ?
2- #Godhra Hindus were not victims of #GodhraTrainBurning alone, them, their shops & houses have been through same carnage in 1947, 1952, 1959, 1961, 1965, 1967, 1972, 1974, 1980, 1983, 1989, 1990 and in 1992 as well!
Gujarat alone has seen 244 riots from 1950 to 1995!
3- From 1961 to 1971, Gujarat saw 685 incidents of muzlim violence in urban & 114 in the rural areas, out of which 578 took place in in 1969 alone!
Ahmedabad has seen 71 riots from 1950 till 1995!
What must Hindus do, retaliate never?
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A well-armed 2000-strong mob of fanatic Muslims roasted to death 59 Hindus including 25 women & 15 children in #Godhra on 27 Feb 2002 at 8 am. #Godhra was well-known for riots since 1927. Muslim magazine Milli Gazette also reported these incidents milligazette.com/Archives/15042… (1)
27 Feb 2002 train burning was not d last fanatic act by Muslims in #Godhra On 13 Mar 2002 a mob again attacked Hindus in Godhra timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Mob-atta… In Sept 2003 Ganesh idol immersion saw stone pelting & conflicts between Hindus & Muslims in #Godhra timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Curfew-i… (2)
What a 16 year old girl Gayatri Panchal who survived the barbaric #Godhra attack said on the ferocity of the horrific massacre: gujaratriots.com/index.php/2008… #Godhra She saw her parents and 2 sisters being burnt alive infront of her eyes, & remained in shock for many days. (3)
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27-02-2002: It broke out like an epidemic of viral flu. We may have been through several such epidemics, but nothing prepares us for the slaughter of men, women, children and even domestic animals. Never forget that the history of the human race is cruel. Watch this space...
I spent seven years (1998-2005) working as #Gujarat correspondent of @TheWeekLive. The pieces I'm posting here were written mostly in 2002 and chronicle the sequential turn of events, as I witnessed them that fateful year, beginning from where it all begun theweek.in/webworld/featu…
The above was an exclusive cover story for The Week's July 7 2002 issue. Took about three months to piece together the jigsaw puzzle that was #Godhra investigations at that point amid the mayhem and blood letting all around. I wrote about it all much later
link.medium.com/K0FZs20EVnb
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Gujarat has been a peace loving state.

But what happened all of a sudden that Godhra incident happens, train catches fire and riots erupt. The entire state starts burning in the fire of murder, rape and violence. Who got political mileage from this scandal?
Has the face of a master mind ever been sketched?

Why did the bombers keep the bombs in cycles and chose Ahmedabad only, why all these incidents happened only between 2002 and 2014? Was it just a coincidence or some experiment.Well who got political mileage from this scandal?
Well, who got political mileage from this scandal? Has the face of a master mind ever been sketched?

Pulwama will not be investigated, but before the elections, there is a terrorist attack on soldiers in Pulwama, 40 soldiers are martyred, but the country is not told how RDX
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#GodhraMassacre shows no act from any Muslim, including roasting children to coal will make 'secularists' blame Muslims for any communal act. Whether Muslims attack VHP/RSS office in Chennai or whether Hindus kill Muslims, media will always blame Sangh Parivar like in #Godhra(40)
On 27 Feb 2018 2 more were convicted, & 3 acquitted. Outrage should be on acquittal of 63 accused earlier (like after Best Bakery case) & no death for 34 #GodhraMassacre convicts. They all deserved death! Media of course, silent, no demand for death even for THIS crime! (41)
Read our full book "Gujarat Riots: The True Story" to know the full truth not only of #GodhraMassacre but also post-Godhra amazon.in/Gujarat-Riots-… Also available in Marathi akshardhara.com/en/samajik-bha… and here bookganga.com/eBooks/Books/d… Will soon be available in Hindi too (42)
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A well-armed 2000-strong mob of fanatic Muslims roasted to coal 59 Hindus including 25 women & 15 children in #GodhraMassacre on 27 Feb 2002 at 8 am #Godhra was well-known for riots since 1927. Muslim magazine Milli Gazette too reported these incidents milligazette.com/Archives/15042… (1)
27 Feb 2002 train burning was not the last fanatic act by Muslims in #Godhra On 13 March 2002 a mob again attacked Hindus in Godhra timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Mob-atta… In Sept 2003 Ganesh idol immersion saw stone pelting by Muslims on Hindus in #GodhraMassacre timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Curfew-i…
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What a 16 year old girl Gayatri Panchal who survived the barbaric #GodhraMassacre said on the ferocity of the horrific massacre: gujaratriots.com/index.php/2008… #GodhraMassacre She saw her parents and 2 sisters being burnt alive infront of her eyes, & remained in shock for many days (3)
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Judge Abhay Thipsay joined Congress in 2018 after his retirement, had convicted 9 out of 17 accused in Best Bakery case in Feb 2006 despite no credible proof. Thipsay claimed that Hindus carried out the 2008 Malegaon blasts when nothing is proven yet esakal.com/saptarang/form… (1)
Thipsay was present at launch of book “Brahminists bombed, Muslims hanged” by known liar & ex Police officer Mushrif in Pune in Aug 2019. Mushrif earlier claimed Karkare was killed by radical Hindus. Thipsay said we should accept Hindu organizations carry out bomb blasts. (2)
Author Mushrif went to d extent of implying that Muslims were wrongly blamed for d July 2006 Mumbai local train blasts, which killed 187 people & by extension, that those blasts were done by ‘Brahminists’ since the title of his book was ‘Brahminists bombed, Muslims hanged’. (3)
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A well-armed 2000-strong mob of Muslims roasted to death 59 Hindus including 25 women & 15 children in #Godhra on 27 Feb 2002 at 8 am #Godhra was well-known for riots & fanaticism since 1927. Muslim magazine Milli Gazette also reported these incidents milligazette.com/Archives/15042… (1)
27 Feb 2002 train burning was not the last fanatic act in #Godhra On 13 Mar 2002 a Muslim mob again attacked Hindus in Godhra timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Mob-atta… In Sept 2003 Ganesh idol immersion saw stone pelting & conflicts between Hindus & Muslims in #Godhra timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Curfew-i… (2)
What a 16 yr girl who survived the barbaric #Godhra attack said on the ferocity of the horrific massacre: gujaratriots.com/index.php/2008… 27 Feb 2002 train burning was not the first, nor last time that #Godhra saw fanaticism. Read to know gujaratriots.com/index.php/2016… #DelhiAntiHinduRiots (3)
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A well-armed 2000-strong mob of fanatic Muslims roasted to death 59 Hindus including 25 women & 15 children in #Godhra on 27 Feb 2002 at 8 am. #Godhra was well-known for riots since 1927. Muslim magazine Milli Gazette also reported these incidents milligazette.com/Archives/15042… (1)
27 Feb 2002 train burning was not d last fanatic act by Muslims in #Godhra On 13 Mar 2002 a mob again attacked Hindus in Godhra timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Mob-atta… In Sept 2003 Ganesh idol immersion saw stone pelting & conflicts between Hindus & Muslims in #Godhra timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Curfew-i… (2)
What a 16 year old girl Gayatri Panchal who survived the barbaric #Godhra attack said on the ferocity of the horrific massacre: gujaratriots.com/index.php/2008… #Godhra She saw her parents and 2 sisters being burnt alive infront of her eyes, & remained in shock for many days. (3)
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Are #Hindu/#Muslim riots inevitable in #India?
-Of course not. (So much academic literature-- see @ProfVarshney among many others).

One key variable is government response. Take two conflagrations in #Gujarat in 2002:
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-Feb 2002: 58 #Hindus killed in #Godhra. ~1,000+ #Muslims killed while police (under #Modi) stand by.
-Sept 2002: Terrorists kill 30 at #Akshardam temple. Could have led to mass riots, but #India's PM Vajpayee sent CRPF in quickly to control the situation. No riots.
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In both 2002 #Gujarat cases, the initial provocation was extreme (in #Godhra, still disputed whether fire was intentional or accident: Separate question).
-Govt can't stop killing of 30 people, or even 58. But it CAN stop the killing of 1,000.

If it doesn't, it's complicit.
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