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15 accused in Delol riot case surrender

By Our Special Correspondent

AHMEDABAD, JUNE 24. Fifteen accused in the Delol communal riot case, in which 23 people were killed, surrendered before police today. The surrender came after police moved the Kalol Sessions court to declare them absconders and attach their property.

According to police, 23 people were massacred in an open field and some of them burnt alive by a group of assailants on the outskirts of Delol village in the Panchamahals district of Gujarat on March 1, 2002, after the Godhra train carnage.

There were a couple of survivors, but their efforts to register a case in the local police station proved futile. With the help of some voluntary organisations, they lodged a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission, which in turn, moved the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court asked the Director-General of Police to investigate the case and a complaint was registered in only in December last against 21 people. Police have arrested only six people. The fear of the court attaching their property forced the absconders to surrender today.

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