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SIT begins work in Gujarat

AHMEDABAD: The Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team on Tuesday began its probe into the 11 most serious incidents that occurred during the post-Godhra communal carnage in Gujarat in 2002.

Its members visited Naroda-Patiya and Naroda Gam and looked into the working of the Meghaninagar police station, which has jurisdiction over the areas where two of the most heinous incidents took place. The team also visited the Gulberg Society, also at Meghaninagar, where at least 39 persons including the former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri were burnt alive.

Over 90 people were butchered and some of them were burnt alive at Naroda-Patiya, while five others were chased and killed in the adjacent Naroda Gam on February 28, 2002, a day after the Godhra train carnage.

The team members are the former CBI Director R.K. Raghavan (SIT chief), the former U.P. Director-General of Police C.B. Satpathy and three senior IPS officers of Gujarat cadre — Geetha Johri, Shivanand Jha and Ashish Bhatia. The team will make Gandhinagar its headquarters.

It will submit its report to the court in three months.

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