Narendra Modi's response to Media & Congress propaganda

Baseless allegations are being leveled... to defame Gujarat

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मेरे प्रिय देशवासियो !

सादर नमस्कार |

आप इस सच्चाई से अच्छी तरह वाकिफ है कि पिछले आठ वर्षो से कुत्रिम मामले बनाकर मुझ पर तरह-तरह के मनघडंत आरोप लगाने का फैशन सा हो गया है | पिछले एक सप्ताह से जो अफवाहे, आरोप ओर झुठ फैल रहे है, इनकी गहराई में उतरें तो दुध का दुध ओर पानी का पानी हो जएगा | सत्य हमेशा सीमाएं तोडकर भी बाहर आता है | यह सत्य कया है इसका ताजा उदाहरण आपके समक्ष रखने की मुझे जरूरत आन पडी है |

वर्ष २००२की गोधरा घटना के बाद गुजरात विधानसभा सदन और सार्वजनिक रूप से अनेक बार मैने बयान दिया है कि भारत का संविधान और कानुन सर्वोपरि है | कोई भी नागरिक, चाहे वह मुख्यमंत्री हो तो भी कानुन से ऊपर नहीं है | मै इस वास्तविकता को सिर्फ श्ब्दो से ही नही बल्कि सच्ची भावना (इन टु स्पीरिट) से आज तक निभाता आया हुं और भविष्य में भी इसी भावना से निभाने के लिए प्रतिबध हुं |

इसके बाबजुद कई स्वार्थी तत्व, बिना तथ्य के मनघडंत और अनुमानों के आधार पर गुजरात को, मेरी सरकार को और स्वयं मुझे बदनाम करने का कोई भी मोका हाथ से जाने नहीं देते |

हाल ही मे "SIT का नरेन्द्र मोदी को समन्स" जैसी खबरें फैलाकर मोदी SIT के समक्ष उपस्थित नहीं हुए ओर मोदी ने सुप्रीम कोर्ट तथा SIT का अनादर किया ओर मोदीने तय तारीख पर अनुपस्थित रहकरीट SIT का अनादर किया जैसा आधारहीन "ओर् मनघडंत दुषप्रचार करके फिर एक बार गुजरात को बदनाम किया जा रहा है | इसलिए मजबुरी में देशवासियों को इस सार्वजनिक पत्र द्वारा सच्चाई बता रहा हुं |

सच्चाईः

• अखबारों की रिपोर्ट के मुताबिक SIT ने मुझे बुलवाया है, इसकी जानकारी मिलते ही सरकार के अधिक्रुत प्रवकता ने तत्काल ही बयान जारी किया कि नरेन्द्र मोदी संविधान के पालनकर्ता है ओर कानुन की प्रत्येक प्रर्किया में सहयोग देते रहे है तथा देते रहेगे |
  
  
• SIT ने समन्स भेजकर २१ मार्च २०१० को नरेन्द्र मोदी को बुलवाया है यह झुठ किसने शूरू किया ओर किस लिए शूरू करवाया, यह गंभीर जांच का विषय है |
  
  
• २१ मार्च २०१० को रविवार था ओर इस दिन सार्वजनिक अवकाश होता है | अफवाह फैलाने वाले मित्रो ने इतनी सी प्राथमिक जानकारी हासिल करने की जरूरत नहीं समझी |
  
  
• सर्वोच्च न्यायालय के प्रतिनिधि के रूप में कार्यरत स्पेश्यिल इन्वेस्टिगेशन टीम (SIT) के अधिकारीगण २१ मार्च २०१० को गुजरात में थे या नहीं इसकी प्राथमिक जानकारी हासिल करना भी इन झुठ फैलाने वाले मित्रो को मुनासिब ना लगा |
  
  
• देशवासियों को मै विनम्रता से बताना चाकता हुं कि मुझे उपस्थित होने के लिए २१ मार्च २०१० की तारीख तय नहीं की गई थी, इसलिए SIT में २१ मार्च को मुझे बुलाया गया था, यह बात बिलकुल झुठी है की मै सर्वोच्च अदालत द्वारा नियुक्त संस्था के गौरव तथा कानुन का आदर करके को संपूर्ण सहयोग दूगाव

२१ मार्च २०१० तो कुछ स्वार्थी तत्वो की कोज थी तथा ईसी के तहत कनुन की निर्धारित प्रक्रिया में हस्तक्षेप किया गया थाकी वह ऐसा चाहते थे कि में SIT को कोई तवज्जो नहीं देना चाहता, ऐसी स्थिति का निर्माण हो

पिछले २४ घंटे से देश में इस मनघडंत जानकारी के दुष्प्रचार का अभियान ऐसा चला कि कई प्रचार माध्यम भी उसके साधन बन गये मुझे आशा है कि अब ऐसा माध्यम भी सच्चा ओर सुधारात्मक अभिगम अपनएगे |

प्यारे देशवासियो |

वर्ष २००२ से गुजरात को लगादार बदनाम कर रहे इन तत्वो को गुजरात ओर देश की जनता अच्छी तरह पहचानती है लेकिन मुझे यह सत्य कहना है कि तरह तरह की सफवाह ओर झुठ फैलाकर जनता को उत्तेजित करने का पाप लोकतंत्र की समग्र प्रक्रिया में अवरोधक बनता है| पिछले २४ घन्टे के इस पूरे घटनाप्रम को देखते हुए, यह झुठ फैलाने ओर मुझे बदनाम करने का षडयंत्र नजर आ रहा है | स्वार्थी तत्वो ओर विभिन परिबलो की आपस में कैसी सांठगाठ है यह स्वयं ही सार्वजनिक हो गया है|

गोधरा और गोधरा घ्टना के बाद की घटनाओं के लिए गुजरात सरकार हमेंशा जांच आयोगो, जांच एजेसियों और सर्वोच्च न्यायालय-सभी की न्यायिक प्रक्रिया का आदर करती रही है और इसलिए ही इस विषय पर किसी भी मामले ओर बयानों के साथ जुडना राज्य सरकार ने उचित नहीं सम्झा |समग्र जांच हमेशा न्यायिक स्तर पर बिना के चलाती रहे इसलिए झुठ ओर बदनामी सहकर भी राज्य सरकारने मौन रखना ठीक सम्झा है |

अब जब पिछले २४ घन्टे का घटनाक्रम झुठ की पराकाष्ठा को पार कर चुका है तो सिर्फ सच्चाई क्या है यह देशवासियों को बताना मैने अपना कर्तव्य समझा है |

म्झे आशा है कि इस सत्य का भी दुरूपयोग करके जांच प्रक्रिया को निहित स्वार्थो के लिए गुमराह करने की कोशिश नहीं की जाएगी और प्रचार माध्यम भी मेरी एस वेदना ओर भावनाओं को लोगो तक पहंव्हाएंगे |

धन्यवाद

CM unravels the truth about supposed SIT summons in his letter to people

Dt: 22.03.2010

My beloved countrymen,

Namaskar,

I am constrained to write to you with a deep sense of anguish. Since last eight years canards have been spread against me. For the past one week if we analyse the allegations leveled against me, then the truth will become evident. Truth cannot be suppressed. It is now my duty to place before you the facts that brings out the importance of understanding what the truth really is.

After the 2002 Godhra incidents, I had categorically said in the Vidhan Sabha and in public that no one is above the Indian Constitution and the law, even if he happens to be the chief minister of a state. These are not mere words. My actions have reflected this statement in its true spirit. I assure you that this would be my stand in the future.

In spite of that, some vested interests without losing a single opportunity and with malicious pleasure and without bothering to ascertain the truth based on mere whims and fancies have been tarnishing the good image of Gujarat, my government and me.

Recently a systematic campaign to defame Gujarat through propagation of false reports titled “SIT summons Narendra Modi”; “Narendra Modi did not appear before SIT” and “Modi has shown disrespect to Supreme Court and SIT.” Such baseless allegations are being leveled once again against me to defame Gujarat.

I am therefore compelled to place the facts before my countrymen.

FACTS:

· As soon as newspapers began reporting that Modi has been summoned by the SIT, the government spokesperson immediately said that Shri Modi is bound by the law of the land and the Indian Constitution. He has always extended his cooperation to every procedure of law. And he is committed to do so in future.

· It is a matter of grave concern and needs investigation as to why and who started spreading lies that “SIT summons Narendra Modi on March 21, 2010”.

· The purveyors of untruth failed even to think that March 21, 2010 happens to be a Sunday and a public holiday.

· These purveyors of lies even did not once bother to check whether the key SIT officers, who are appoited by the Supreme Court, were present in Gujarat on March 21, 2010.

· SIT had not fixed March 21, 2010 for my appearance. To say that I was summoned on March 21 is completely false. I shall respond to the SIT fully respecting the law and keeping in view the dignity of a body appointed by the Supreme Court.

· The date of 21^st March 2010 was invented by some vested interest and as a part of their effort to interfere in the due process of law. They wanted to paint me as a person who refused to respond to the SIT. This country has in the last twenty four hours witnessed a campaign of disinformation in which a section of the media became an instrument of the disinformers. I hope this section will now take corrective steps.

My beloved countrymen,

The people of Gujarat and this country have identified those who are defaming Gujarat continuously since 2002. But I want to tell the truth that spreading falsehoods has only one single purpose and that is to instigate people. It is a sinful action which will harm the working of a democratic state. Seen in the backdrop of events in the last 24 hours it shows that there is a nexus among the vested interests in spreading lies against me in order to defame me. This machination has come unstuck and the people have seen through this charade.

Government of Gujarat has always honoured and cooperated with the investigative agencies, commissions and Supreme Court looking into Godhra and post-Godhra incidents. And that is why I never thought of giving a public statement on this issue. Despite unbearable pain, I decided to maintain silence in the belief that due process of law would take its own course.

But now as the lies reach a crescendo as never before I am compelled to bring the facts before the countrymen. I also consider it as my humble duty.

I hope the truth is not twisted by the purveyors of untruth to misguide the investigation. And I expect that the media would bring my deep pain and despair to the notice of the people.

Thanks,

Narendra Modi

Anti-Hindu sellout media having an orgasm over whether Legendary Gujarat Chief Minister Mahatma Narendra Modi will appear on March 21 or not. If not, then when? Or if at all will he attend. Its nothing but extra-judicial trial by prejudiced media all in the name of their fake Secularism.

Myths & Truths about Godhra & Gujarat Riots

Please also read,

1. Gujarat Riots: 12 Lies & Myths concocted by Media


2. Gujarat riot Myths busted in Supreme Court


3. PDF: Nanavati-Mehta Commission report is out on Terrorist attack on Sabarmati Train in Godhra


4. Sabarmati Express carnage was planned by Godhra Muslims


5. Biased media's insensitivity to Godhra Train terrorist attack


6. Teesta Setalvad/CPI(M) bribed Gujarat riot witnesses before trial, threatened others


7. Teesta Setalvad willfully fabricated and submitted incorrect information to Courts

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The myth and truth of Godhra
By Arvind Lavakare, Organiser

Since no 'secularist' or 'liberal' or 'objective' person ever challenged the above sets of figures, some questions arise: Who killed 200-odd Hindus so early in those riots? Was it the police or the Hindus themselves? And what made those 40,000 Hindus rush to relief camps? Was it fear of Hindu mob violence, rape, arson and murder?

Two recent 'news briefs' in print are critical evidence of a reality that's been totally ignored by our 'liberals' who have, for four years running, gone on and on and on about the 'genocide' of Muslims in Gujarat after the sudden inferno in the S-6 compartment of Sabarmati Express had consumed 58 Hindus, including 26 women and 12 children, returning home after performing kar seva at Ayodhya.

In its edition of March 19, 2006, The Sunday Express carried the following report from Ahmedabad:

"Post-Godhra riot case: 7 get lifer
The city sessions court on Friday convicted seven people in a post-Godhra riot case and sentenced them to life term for the murder of 35-year-old Mukesh Panchal, a resident of Lambha. He was attacked by the accused and went missing on November 7, 2003 from Shah-e-Alam Darwaza. His mutilated body was found near Chandoka Lake on November 11. One of the seven accused—Javed Shaukat Ali—meanwhile managed to give the cops a slip and fled from the court."

In its edition of Wednesday, March 29, 2006 The Indian Express carried the following report, also datelined Ahmedabad:

"Nine get jail in post-Godhra riot case
The city sessions court on Tuesday convicted nine accused in a post-Godhra riot case. Additional Sessions Judge Sonia Gokani sentenced Mushtaq alias Kanio Ahmed Sheikh to 10 years in jail for murder and attempt to murder. Eight others were sentenced to 18 months in prison for unlawful assembly, possessing weapons and rioting."

Out of the five convictions so far in l'affaire Godhra, the above two rip the blindfold on Godhra that the country was subjected to since March 2002. Those two convictions conclusively prove that even as some Hindus in Vadodra, Ahmedabad and a few other parts of Gujarat were provoked into insane killing, arson and loot by the S-6 carnage, the Muslims in that state were hardly the cattle hiding from the slaughter house that they have been made out by the "secularists" in and outside our national English media. Do you, for instance, recall reading about the mutilation of Mukesh Panchal's cadaver in any of the English print media? Did you hear a sound byte about it on our TV?

Yes, despite all the media and the consequent political, propaganda about the 'genocide' of Gujarat's Muslims, the reality is that some of that community were also engaged in murder, rioting and unlawful assembly with arms in hand.

This trend was discernible to the objective person four years ago itself. Thus, in its issue of April 28, 2002, The Times of India reporter, Sanjay Pandey, told us that of the 726 people who had been killed by then in the post-Godhra riots, 168 were Hindus. In its issue of June 24, 2002, India Today carried an article saying that the official figure of all people killed in Gujarat in the three months following the S-6 massacre was 800, of which a quarter were Hindus. The Union Home Ministry's Annual Report 2002-03 said that about a third of the total dead in the Godhra riots were Hindus. It also said that, at one stage, 40,000 Hindus were in riot relief camps.

Since no 'secularist' or 'liberal' or 'objective' person ever challenged the above sets of figures, some questions arise: Who killed 200-odd Hindus so early in those riots? Was it the police or the Hindus themselves? And what made those 40,000 Hindus rush to relief camps? Was it fear of Hindu mob violence, rape, arson and murder?

More proof of the blindfold on Godhra came in 2005, when the UPA coalition (comprising the 'secular' friends of Muslims) made a statement in Parliament that 254 Hindus and 790 Muslims were killed in those riots.

But our national media simply refused to remove the blindfold on Godhra. Hence it was that the elites of our society continued to rant about the Gujarat 'pogrom of genocide'; some cussed Indians even conspired to deny a US visa to the Chief Minister of one of the country's fastest developing states.

Aiding and abetting that conspiracy were reports from Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International et al. The National Human Rights Commission joined in; written lies by the likes of Arundhati Roy and fake e-mails added fuel to the fire. All of them went to town about the Gujarat 'genocide' with blinkers on, a blindfold underneath. None wanted to touch upon the minority community's role in that tragedy.

But the latest criminal conviction of 16 Muslims evokes the recall of the Justice Tewatia Report on the Godhra issue published on April 26, 2002 under the aegis of the Council For International Affairs And Human Rights, based in New Delhi.

It was a report based on a six-day field study of a team headed by Justice D.S. Tewatia, former Chief Justice, Calcutta High Court and Punjab and Haryana High Court. Its other members were Dr J.C. Batra, senior advocate, Supreme Court, Dr Krishan Singh, academician, Jawahar Lal Kaul, veteran journalist, and Prof. B. K. Kuthiala, Dean, Faculty of Media Studies, G.J. University, Hisar.

The five-man team visited three affected areas and relief camps in Ahmedabad, interacting freely with the public and members of both communities, and without government interference. In Godhra, five delegations from both communities and also of mixed composition presented their views and facts to the team. Similarly, free discussions with the public and affected communities were held in Vadodra at seven affected areas and five relief camps. It collected information from the staff at the Godhra Railway Station, district administration, including the Collector and Police Commissioner, passengers traveling in Sabarmati Express on 27.02.02 in S-6 compartment as well as in other compartments, staff of the Fire Brigade, Godhra, reports in 22 newspapers and nine magazines (local, regional and Delhi) and views on media coverage articulated by some 500 persons including intellectuals like lawyers, doctors and businessmen. The site where the train was initially stopped and stoned was also visited. A high point was that 13 delegations consisting of 121 citizens met Justice Tewatia's team and presented their viewpoints and information. The delegations ranged from the Association of Hoteliers to a group of Vanvasis and affected Muslim as well as Hindu women.

Based on the considerable oral, audio and visual evidence obtained from the above interactions, the Justice Tewatia team's conclusions most relevant to the blindfold on Godhra were as follows:

1.
Burning of 58 Hindu pilgrims on February 27, 2002 was an act carried out at the behest of then government of Pakistan which had planned to burn the entire Sabarmati Express carrying some 2000 passengers. The primary objective was to create Hindu-Muslim communal conflagration in India. The actual perpetrators were jehadi elements in the predominantly Muslim town of Godhra where
1.
a very high traffic of telephone calls was recorded between Godhra and Pakistan, especially Karachi, before the date of the carnage
2.
an abnormally large number of passports were issued,
3.
there was a large number of persons without ration cards
4.
a large number of unemployed Muslims had mobile phones,
5.
though there is no tradition of being a Muslim pilgrim center and the local Muslims are not affluent, three istema (religious gatherings) have been held and attended by large numbers of foreigners, and
6.
an Assistant Collector (a young Muslim from eastern UP) went on leave two days before the gory incident and did not return till the middle of March though the district of his posting was aflame with communal riots much earlier.
2.
The vacuum pipe between the Coaches No. S-6 and S-7 was cut thereby preventing any further movement of the train. Miscreants threw bricks and stones at the train as soon as it left Godhra railway station. The stoning intensified after it finally stopped about 700 metres from the station. The passengers of the train, particularly Coaches S-5, S-6 and S-7, were the main targets. Burning missiles and acid bulbs were thrown on and in the coaches. One such acid missile landed in Coach S-7 and a fire started which the passengers were able to extinguish. But the attack continued and more burning missiles were thrown into the Coach S-6.
3.
In an effort to control the subsequent riots, the Gujarat government
4.
Publicly announced its decision to employ the Army on the evening of the day riots began on February 28 (Within less than 24 hours at least one brigade of Indian Army had air-landed at Ahmedabad),
5.
Made preventive arrests of over 33,000 people,
6.
Fired over 12,000 rounds of bullets,
7.
Fired over 15,000 rounds of tear gas shells,
8.
The involvement of Vanvasis in the post-Godhra riots added a new dimension to the communal violence. In rural areas the Vanvasis attacked the Muslim moneylenders, shopkeepers and the forest contractors. They used their traditional bow and arrows as also their implements used to cut trees and grass while attacking Muslims. They moved in groups and used coded signals for communication. Apparently, the accumulated anger of years of exploitation by Muslim moneylenders (interest of 50 per cent per annum), shopkeepers and forest contractors had become explosive after moneylenders sexually exploited their womenfolk.
9.
The media selected, distorted and added fiction to prove their respective points of view. The code of ethics prescribed by the Press Council of India was violated by the media with impunity. It so enraged the citizens that several concerned citizens in the disturbed areas suggested that peace could return to the state only if some of the TV channels were closed for some weeks. Even the Vanvasis complained that the media had no time to hear their agony and was spreading canards against the Hindus. Newspapers published in English from Delhi invariably editorialised the news. Direct and indirect comments in the news writing were so telling that the personal likes and dislikes of the news reporters were too obvious to be missed. They appeared to have assumed the role of crusaders against the State Government from day one. It coloured the entire operation of newsgathering, feature writing and editorials.

Conclusions 1 to 4 above are indicators as to why our national media, ever afraid to criticise the Muslim and ever ready to indulge in BJP/Hindu bashing, bypassed the Justice Tewatia Report, despite its high credentials and the fact that it was publicly released at a press conference in New Delhi. After all, our 'secular' national media simply could not have tolerated giving even a line to report's conclusion 5 above. Hence, they simply buried the whole report itself, put a blindfold on the country vision of it. After all, they had found their Hindu-bashing agenda in the post-Godhra riots and they were hell-bent in pushing it full steam, right up to the Supreme Court and beyond to the United Nations.

Will the criminal conviction of 16 by two separate sessions judges in Ahmedabad remove the blindfold on Godhra that the 'monster media' put on the people of this country?

(The writer can be contacted at 202, Dosti Erica, Antop Hill, Wadala (E), Mumbai 400 037.)

Gujarat riot Myths busted in Supreme Court

॥सत्यमेव जयते नानृतं॥ (Truth Alone Triumphs, not falsehood) - Mundak Upanishad 3.1.6

Please also read,

1. Teesta Setalvad/CPI(M) bribed riot witnesses before trial, threatened others


2. Teesta Setalvad willfully fabricated and submitted incorrect information to Courts

As we came to know about it in December 2008 that Teesta Setalvad willfully fabricated and submitted incorrect information to Courts and that Teesta Setalvad in collusion with CPI(M) bribed riot witnesses before trial and threatened others. This shocking news was confirmed today by Special Investigation Team (SIT) led by former CBI director R K Raghavan told the Supreme Court on Monday that the so-called human rights activist Teesta Setalvad who paraded the Gujarat riot victims before the Supreme Court and claimed they had been denied justice cooked up macabre tales of wanton killings.

Gujarat riot myths busted

Special Investigation Team (SIT) gave sufficient grounds for the apex court to doubt the authenticity of incidents highlighted by her NGO Citizens for Justice and Peace.

The SIT, headed by former CBI Director RK Raghavan along with former DGP CB Satpathy and three senior IPS officers — Geetha Johri, Shivanand Jha and Ashish Bhatia — had been entrusted with the enquiry into post-Godhra riot incidents in Godhra, Gulbarg Society, Naroda Gaon, Naroda Patiya and Sardarpura.

Senior advocate Mukul Rohtagi, appearing for the State, read out portions of the report that refuted the petitioner’s charge of the State’s complicity in the riots.

Pointing out a specific instance, the SIT report stated how the evidence of 22 witnesses was “suspect” owing to the identical submissions made in their affidavits submitted to the court. On enquiry, the SIT found that all the 22 affidavits were drafted, typed and printed from the same computer, giving sufficient grounds to believe they were “tutored”. When the SIT questioned those who signed the affidavits, it was shocked to learn that these complainants were not even aware of the incidents.

Referring to another instance that exposed the Citizens for Justice and Peace’s much ‘trumpeted’ charges, Rohtagi said the SIT investigation found untrue allegation about a gangrape of a pregnant woman Kauser Bano, whose stomach was allegedly pierced by sword and her foetus killed.

Even the instance of dumping of bodies into a well at Naroda Patiya and a charge of the police allegedly shielding accused persons in murder of a British national was found to be untrue, Rohtagi said.

Firing a salvo at the NGO, Rohtagi said, “It is clear from the report that the horrendous allegations made by the NGO were false. Cyclostyled affidavits were supplied by a social activist and the allegations made in them were untrue,” he added, with an obvious reference to Setalvad.

NGOs, Teesta spiced up Gujarat riot incidents: SIT

The Special Investigation Team responsible for the arrests of those accused in Gujarat riots has severely censured NGOs and social activist Teesta Setalvad who campaigned for the riot victims.

Many incidents of killings and violence were cooked up, false charges were levelled against then police chief P C Pandey and false witnesses were tutored to give evidence about imaginary incidents, the SIT said in a report submitted before a Bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat, P Sathasivam and Aftab Alam.

The SIT said it had been alleged in the Gulbarg Society case that Pandey, instead of taking measures to protect people facing the wrath of rioteers, was helping the mob. The truth was that he was helping with hospitalisation of riot victims and making arrangements for police bandobast, Gujarat counsel, senior advocate Mukul Rohtagi, said quoting from the SIT report.

Rohtagi also said that 22 witnesses, who had submitted identical affidavits before various courts relating to riot incidents, were questioned by the SIT which found that they had been tutored and handed over the affidavits by Setalvad and that they had not actually witnessed the riot incidents.

The SIT also found no truth in the following incidents widely publicised by the NGOs:

* A pregnant Muslim woman Kausar Banu was gangraped by a mob, who then gouged out the foetus with sharp weapons

* Dumping of dead bodies into a well by rioteers at Naroda Patiya

* Police botching up investigation into the killing of British nationals, who were on a visit to Gujarat and unfortunately got caught in the riots

Rohtagi said: "On a reading of the report, it is clear that horrendous allegations made by the NGOs were false. Stereotyped affidavits were supplied by a social activist and the allegations made in them were found untrue."

Obviously happy with the fresh findings of the SIT which was responsible for the recent arrests of former Gujarat minister Maya Kodanani and VHP leader Jaideep Patel, Rohtagi tried to spruce up the image of the Modi administration, which was castigated in the Best Bakery case by the apex court as "modern day Neros"

Biased media's insensitivity to Godhra Train terrorist attack

Gujarat HC adjourns hearing on Banerjee Committee report on Godhra fire

Media is so insensitive, inconsiderate and unconcerned about those 58 innocent Hindu citizens (including 20 children, 15 women, and 23 men) who were burnt alive using 140 liters of Gasoline by Terrorists in that Godhra train attack as proved by LEGALLY constituted, constitutional, the OFFICIAL, indisputable, exhaustive and scientific Nanavati-Mehta commission report which was made public last year. How callous of you to call the attack "Godhra fire" as if the fire started itself from thin air pathetically propagating what was said in the unconstitutional, unofficial, private and biased report by UC Banerjee "Committee" as directed by Lalu Yadav.

Please also read:

1. PDF: Nanavati-Mehta Commission report is out on Terrorist attack on Train in Godhra


2. Teesta Setalvad willfully fabricated and submitted incorrect information to Courts


3. Teesta Setalvad/CPI(M) bribed riot witnesses before trial, threatened others


4. Is there an Indian media mindset?


5. From Tainthood to Sainthood

Teesta Setalvad/CPI(M) bribed riot witnesses before trial, threatened others

While the Vishwa Hindu Parishad of America (VHPA), Inc. (World Hindu Council of America) cleared its stand on the alleged response by Sonal Shah to the unfounded accusations which were part of the Anti-Hindu communal propaganda by Evangelic-Leftist groups in the US. The truth about known Anti-Hindu bigot Teesta Setalvad was exposed a few days ago by the victims of the riots that happened in Gujarat after the terrorist attack in Godhra by Muslims. 58 Hindus (including 20 children, 15 women, and 23 men) were burnt alive using 140 liters by Muslim Terrorists as proved by the Nanavati-Mehta Commission report made public recently. And then happened despicable violence in its aftermath. As per the figures given by the Union Minister of State for Home Prakash Jaiswal, who belongs to the Congress Party, in Parliament on May 11 2005, 790 Muslims and 254 Hindus were killed in the riots, 2548 people were injured and 223 people were missing.

The revelation a few days ago was that a host of Gujarat riot case victims were misled into signing affidavits giving false information at the behest of Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), an NGO headed by Teesta Setalvad. Teesta Setalvad willfully fabricated and submitted incorrect information to Courts.

Daily Pioneer has brought out another revelation about Teesta who is one of the many fanatic Pseudo-Secular fundamentalist out there who don't believe in Majority Rights. Apparently, Teesta's Gujarat-based NGO processed payment from CPM relief fund to pay the witnesses just before the trial.

A controversial Gujarat-based NGO was instrumental in organising payment of Rs 1 lakh each to as many as ten witnesses in various post-Godhra riot cases. The money came from the CPI(M) relief fund and was distributed months before the witnesses deposed in the courts, five years after the clashes took place. Four other eyewitnesses received Rs 50,000 each.

The revelation comes in the backdrop of reports that a host of Gujarat riot case victims were misled into signing affidavits giving false information at the behest of Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), an NGO headed by social activist Teesta Setalvad.

Incidentally, those who were both victims and eyewitnesses received Rs 1 lakh and Rs 50,000 while the victims got mere Rs 5,000 each. This has raised eyebrows over the selection of beneficiaries and the purpose of paying a disproportionately large sum to the eyewitnesses before the trial.

Chief Coordinator of CJP Rais Khan told The Pioneer that he had submitted the name of beneficiaries to the CPI(M) on instruction from Teesta Setalvad. “Setalvad identified the people and I merely followed her instruction and forwarded the list to CPI (M),” Khan said.

When contacted, Setalvad said she was present at the function on an invitation from the CPI(M) and had nothing to do with fund raising. “It was CPI(M) money and I was a mere guest at the function,” she claimed.

Yasin Naimudin Ansari, one of the eyewitnesses who got one lakh rupees, told The Pioneer on phone from Ahmedabad that he was approached by someone from Teesta Setalvad's organisation. "I vaguely remember this. But I don't remember the name of the person," he said.

The function took place in Ahmedabad on August 26, 2007 and the witnesses were handed out demand drafts by CPI(M) politburo member Brinda Karat, Teesta Setalvad and Rais Khan.

The Pioneer is in possession of letters written by beneficiaries thanking Brinda, Teesta and Rais Khan for the payment.

Yasmin Banu Ismailbhai Shaikh (aunt of Zahira) of Baroda, who received Rs 50,000 (DD No 567552 dated August 1, 2007). Yasmin is a complainant in case No. 114/04 at Baroda. It is interesting to note that, when no substance was found in her complaint, she was directed to face lie detection test by the court and ever since she has not appeared in the court.

Among the recipients are four Best Bakery case witnesses and nine are appearing as witnesses in Ahmedabad-related Naroda Patia, Shahpur, Khanpur and other 2002 riot cases.

The information has been gleaned through a string of petitions under the Right to Information Act by one H Jhaveri from various agencies, including banks.

For list of the witnesses who were allegedly bribed by Teesta and CPI(M) just before the trial can be obtained here at "Godhra riot witnesses got Rs 1 lakh each".

As a consequence of the above revelations, Teesta Setalvad's former confidant Raees Khan has filed a FIR against her for threatening him.

"I have filed an FIR (First Information Report) against Teesta today at Rakhial police station. She is behind the threatening calls that I am receiving for the past couple of days," said Raees Khan, a former confidant and once the coordinator here for Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP).

Khan said late on Friday evening that he had to take this step as calls were made to him from Ahmedabad railway station warning him and his family of dire consequence if "I turn out to be a nuisance to Teesta".

"Do not say anything about Teesta. Do not address the media. Keep strictly away from media persons. Even if one word is spoken against Teesta, you and your family will have to pay a heavy price," Khan quoted the caller as saying.

"Today my application was accepted by the Rakhial police inspector and also an FIR was filed. I also met the assistant commissioner police and told him the reason behind my seeking police protection," Khan said.

In his complaint, Raees Khan has directly accused Teesta. "If I am attacked or if anything happens to my family, I will hold Teesta personally responsible," Khan said in the FIR, adding that though he had no enmity with Teesta, she was hounding and threatening him.

"'I will send you to a place from where you will not return', Teesta had warned me recently when I asked for my two months' salary dues," Khan said.

Raees Khan is in the eye of the storm after he was accused of distorting facts in affidavits of the six Naroda Gam witnesses viz., Madina Pathan, Maqsoon Pathan, Rafiq Sheikh, Mohammed Malik, Rafiq Malik and Rahim Malik when he filed their affidavits in 2003.

These witnesses have deposed before the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) that they did not know about the content of affidavits filed before the Supreme Court.

"I did my duties diligently at the office located at Shahpur and all went well until 2007 when she unceremoniously sacked me. She was at her abusive best when she showed me the door," Khan said.

"I have not been paid my two months' salary. The computer and the fax machine and other stationery items belonged to me as I had purchased with my own money and have receipts to prove it. Yet she has taken all of it, claiming that it belonged to her. When I demanded that my property be returned, she said she would fix me in such a way that I will be rotting behind bars for the rest of the life," Khan told IANS.

He also alleges that yet, when he went ahead undeterred and demanded his dues he was approached by people close to Teesta who advised him not to tangle with Teesta.

"'She is too powerful and she can harm you irreparably. It is better you keep away from her', they had advised me," Khan said.

Their FAKE Secularism stands exposed!

Teesta Setalvad willfully fabricated and submitted incorrect information to Courts

॥सत्यमेव जयते नानृतं॥ (Truth Alone Triumphs, not falsehood) - Mundak Upanishad 3.1.6

Truth about biased foreign funded Anti-Hindu NGO Citizen for Justice and Peace (CJP) secretary Teesta Setalvad, who is a known rudali (paid mourners) who only cries for Muslims and spews venom against Hindus at a drop of hat, is finally out. She has committed an act of perjury by fabricating and influencing victims of Gujarat riots which followed a Muslim Terrorist attack on a Train in Godhra, Gujarat in 2002. 58 Hindus (including 20 children, 15 women, and 23 men) were burnt alive using 140 liters by Muslim Terrorists as proved by the Nanavati-Mehta Commission report made public recently.

Carrying forward their (Bharatiya/Indian Media) prejudice to suppress any information unmasking the Pseudo-Secularist and Anti-Hindu bigots, no more than one mainstream newspaper and media is carrying this news about Setalvad's mendacities to influence the victims statements and hence, the judgment of the courts.

SC affidavit wrong, didn’t know what we signed: riot victim

Victims say earlier statements were fabricated

Our statements fabricated, say Naroda victims

Tell SIT that human rights groups, relief camp authorities made them sign statements written in English, which they could not understand.

In a shocking revelation, six victims of the Naroda gam (village) violence during the 2002 communal riots in Gujarat have told the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigating Team (SIT) that their statements submitted at several places in connection to the case so far were fabricated and recorded without their knowledge. The issue assumes signification because the places where these statements have been submitted also include the Supreme Court.

In her new home in a narrow bylane of Ahmedabad, Madina Pathan (25) has no idea she has kicked up a storm with her deposition before the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the 2002 Gujarat riot cases.

While an affidavit in the Supreme Court stated that Madina, then a young bride, was raped and stabbed by rioters at her late husband’s house in Naroda Gam, she has told the SIT she was stabbed but never raped. She said she had no idea what was written in that affidavit since it was in English which she could neither read, write or understand.

“In those days, some people used to come and question me. There used to be a Nanu Miyan, I would go to him with the other victims,” Madina told The Indian Express. Nanu Miyan Malek, a Naroda Gam survivor on whose affidavit the Supreme Court appointed the SIT to probe some of the riot cases, says Madina is not lying. “Madina was stabbed in the stomach but no one raped her. She stayed with us in a relief camp for nearly six months,” Malek said.

Malek said the affidavit was “fabricated” and had “incorrect” information. He alleged it was drafted in English without his knowledge by Rais Khan, coordinator of the Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP), who made him sign on the affidavit. “I had mentioned this in my statement to the SIT too,” he said.

But Rais Khan claims it was CJP secretary Teesta Setalvad who sent him affidavits for signatures. “Teesta Setalvad used to send me these affidavits through e-mail. I used to take printouts and get them signed after calling the persons concerned to Shahpur. All these affidavits were drafted by Setalvad along with some legal experts,” Khan said. When contacted, Setalvad declined comment.

According to Malek’s eight-page affidavit, Madina, then the newly married daughter-in-law of his neighbour, was attacked and raped by a Hindu rioter. The affidavit was appended to a petition which the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and CJP had jointly moved before the Supreme Court in 2003, seeking a CBI inquiry into the riot cases on the grounds that the Gujarat police was trying to scuttle investigations into these cases.

Madina deposed before the SIT on May 20 this year, stating she was never raped. “Jab Gandhinagar ke bade saab ne poochha tab mujhe pata pada ki pehle court mein aisa likha hai. Mera to kabhi balatkar nahin hua tha (I realised that this was written in the court paper only after the official in Gandhinagar (SIT) asked me. I was never raped).”

She says she received Rs five lakh in compensation which she deposited in a bank. In her statement to the SIT, she said she never identified any of the attackers, neither had she said so in any statement anywhere.

Madina disclosed that one Nanumiyan, who along with a Delhi-based human rights group is petitioner in this case, had got these statements recorded by their counsels.

“These affidavits were in English and I do not know what was written on the paper that I was made to sign. No one had raped me,” says her statement, adding she was stabbed on her hand by a rioter.

Another victim, Maqsood Miyan Pathan, who according to the earlier affidavit, had seen two men getting out of a car and handing over a black suitcase to the then Naroda police inspector, K K Mysorewala, following which the latter reportedly left in his officials vehicle, has also retracted from this. He told the SIT that “some counsels of an NGO had written all this without my knowledge”.

“Counsels in the office of a prominent notary were ‘instigating’ me and other victims to name more persons in their statements,” Maqsood said in his statement.

Four other victims of the case, who have retracted from their earlier statements are Raffique Mohammed Hussain Sheikh, Mohammed Razak Mallik, Mohammed Raffique Hussain Miyan Mallik and Rahim Miyan Rasool Miyan Mallik.

Nanavati-Mehta Commission report on pre-planned Islamic Terrorist attack on Hindus trapped in Sabarmati Train at Godhra station

Nanavati-Mehta Commission report is now out and has stated that Muslim terrorist mobs burned the train with 140 liters petrol through a pre-planned conspiracy. The report has also given clean chit to Gujarat Chief Minister Mr. Narendra Modi, its ministers, and police of any charges. Today a Nation, Hindus and Mr. Modi stand vindicated of the false charges and communal propaganda of pseudo-secularists. ॥सत्यमेव जयते नानृतं॥ (Truth Alone Triumphs, not falsehood) - Mundak Upanishad 3.1.6

Read here the PDF of the Report by The Commission of Inquiry consisting of Mr. Justice G.T. Nanavati and Mr. Justice Akshay H. Mehta into the facts, circumstances and all the course of events of the incidents that led to setting on fire some coaches of the Sabarmati Express Train on 2.27.2002 near Godhra Railway Station and the subsequent incidents of violence in the State in the aftermath of the Godhra incident. PART-I (Sabarmati Express Train Incident at Godhra). In Ahmedabad on September 18, 2008.

Nanavati-Mehta Commission Report on Godhra Terrorist attack by Muslims

Here are the exact and paraphrased excerpts from the report by G T Nanavati, a former Supreme Court judge:

The report says that the coach burning in February, 2002 that left 58 kar sevaks returning from Ayodhya dead "was a pre-planned conspiracy" hatched at the Aman Guest House in Godhra.

"There is absolutely no evidence to show that either the Chief Minister or any of the ministers in his council or police officers had played any role in the Godhra incident,"

The conclusion that the train burning was a "pre-planned conspiracy" was based on various grounds including the statements of the passengers of the train that stone pelting continued for 20 minutes to prevent the passengers from coming out of the coach.

140 litres of petrol was purchased by Razzak Kurkur and Salim Panwala to execute the conspiracy, the Commission said adding that according to eyewitnesses, Shaukat Lalu and Mohammad Latika, had possibly opened the sliding door connecting the S6 and S7 coaches and entered S6 through that door.

One Hassan Lalu had thrown a burning rag which had led to the fire in the S6 coach, it said.

On the conspiracy, the report said it was hatched at the Aman Guest House on the directions of Maulvi Umarji and executed by Razzak Kurkur, Salim Panwala, Shaukat Lalu, Imran Sheri, Rafique Batuk and Shiraj Bala.

The report quotes accounts of railway officers and passengers on how the mob near Signal Falia screamed "kill, cut burn" before setting S-6 coach on fire at Godhra railway station.

The Nanavati report says the vesitbule between two coaches was cut by Shaukat Lala and Mohd Latika to gain access to the S-6 coach to pour 140 liters of petrol. Hassan Lala, another accused then threw burning rags into the coach to set it on fire. For about 20 minutes the coach was stoned from outside to prevent passengers from coming out.

The conspiracy was hatched at the house of Maulvi Umerji and was executed by Raza Kurjur and Salim Panwala. The petrol for the episode was obtained from a petrol pump in Godhra a day before the incident, the report further says.

The Nanavati commission has also accepted that there was no prior intelligence on the return of kar sevaks and that's the reason why the police department was caught unaware. As part of the conspiracy rumours were spread that a muslim girl has been abducted so that a large number of Muslims could gather at the spot.

"The conspiracy hatched by these persons further appears to be a part of a larger conspiracy to create terror and destabilise the administration,"

Giving a clean chit to Modi in the post-Godhra events, the Nanavati Commission in the the 188-page report said "There is absolutely no evidence to show that either the Chief Minister or any other Minister(s) had played any role in the Godhra incident or that there was any lapse on their part in providing protection, relief and rehabilitation to the victims of communal riots or in the matter of not complying with the recommendations and directions by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)".

Source:

1. नानावटी रिपोर्ट में झूठ का पर्दाफाश - याहू! भारत द्वारा सितम्बर २७, २००८ को


2. 
   
   • Godhra train attack: SC refuses to stay Nanavati report
   
   
   • SC refuses to stay circulation of Nanavati report on Godhra
   
   


3. गुजरात की जनता से माफी मांगो: नरेंद्र दामोदर मोदी


4. Sabarmati Express fire was pre-planned: Godhra report


5. Nanavati report gives clean chit to Narendra Modi
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7. BJP hails Nanavati report, says it exposed the truth


8. Offstumped on Godhra Revisited


9. From Godhra to Nanavati report - in a nutshell


10. Six years after Godhra, no closer to the truth


11. In Part 1, Nanavati concludes Part 2