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Godhra commission’s findings are partial: NHRC

New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission on Sunday termed the diametrically opposite findings of two inquiry commissions on Godhra train carnage “partial reports” and said such government-constituted probe panels had no “independence”.

Referring to the reports of the Nanavati and Banerjee Commissions, NHRC chairperson Justice S. Rajendra Babu said it was not appropriate for any inquiry commission to submit a partial report considering its wide ramifications.

“One thing that is normally not done is partial report. Both Nanavati and Banerjee gave partial reports,” Mr. Babu told PTI here.

The report of Gujarat government-appointed Justice G T Nanavati Commission, which went into the Sabarmati Express coach burning on February 27, 2002, said it “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 [Narendra Modi] or any of the Ministers in his council or police officers had played any role in the Godhra incident,” said the report of Justice Nanavati, a former Supreme Court judge.

“Let undertrials vote”

The NHRC recommended that undertrials must be allowed to vote in elections and the maximum period of detention of a person should be fixed at six months. In its draft recommendations on detention, the NHRC said “the provision of right to vote should be ensured to the undertrials”.

The report said over thirty lakh people in the country are suffering from mental illness and it is set to overtake cardiovascular diseases as the single largest ailment by 2010, a report has said. — PTI

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