First Hindutva Genocide of Muslims and its Architect

First Hindutva Genocide of Muslims and its Architect



Mustafa Khan


mustafakha1948@gmail.com
Jaffernager, plot no. 24, sr.no.90
Malegaon, Maharashtra, India.
2554-236370

Contents


Preface
Chapter 1 Hindutva Forces and their in/action
Chapter 2 Genocide and abdication of responsibility
Chapter 3 Narendra Modi, chief minister as the architect of genocide
Chapter 4 An ode to Ode of Anand
Chapter 5 9 Special cases if Genocide
Chapter 6 Scuttling Judiciary
Chapter 7 The Augean Stables of Modi
Chapter 8 New Home Secretary of Modi:
“These Muslims are filthy people,burn them to ashes!”
Chapter 9 Haren Pandya: the Achilles heels of Narendra Modi
Chapter 10 Grounded in real facts
Chapter 11 Holocaust that Narendra Modi brought about
Chapter 12 Blot and redemption
Chapter 13 Gender and genocide
Chapter 14 Personal vendetta of Modi against Sanjive Bhatt: failure of
Democracy.
Chapter 15 Godhra incident
Chapter 16 Newtonian law: mapping the mind of the heir apparent to Delhi
Sultanate
Chapter 17 Hatred is born in the mind
Chapter 18 A Daniel come to judgment: amicu curiae
Chapter 19 Tulsiram Prajapati and multiplicity of crimes
Chapter 20 Revenge of administration
Chapter 21 Fake encounter terror
Chapter 22 The world view of terrorism as a fall out of 9/11
Chapter 23 Modi as a real time aveneger
Chapter 24 Laying the trap
Chapter 25 Atrocities on children
Chapter 26 Balance sheet
Chapter 27 ‘Can Modi give back my daughter?’
Chapter 28 Common Design
Chapter 29 Pracharak Architect
Personae
Index













Preface
For years together I was preoccupied with concerns for women whenever I had leisure from my teaching. To narrow it further I would think and write about how they have suffered and their human rights violated. I was also disturbed that even religion could not ameliorate their lot or given them justice. It traumatized me sometimes. Then came the genocide of Muslims in Gujarat 2002. It nearly killed me with the thought that women would have to go through this kind of brutality on the top of all kinds of discrimination, mistreatment, and brutality at home and in the street.
At the turn of the new century and the years that led to it, I would send articles for the Meantime from Calicut, Kerala and Deshdoot Time from Nasik. I used to travel and attend conferences and seminars across the country. The worst suffering that women underwent, I found, was during riots and then the genocide in Gujarat. In one such visit to Amritsar we were taken to Wagha border. This was exactly the day when the US started war on Iraq in 2003. On our return we went to shopping. There was a group of fellow teachers from Gujarat. One of them was a lady professor who suddenly sprang a surprise saying that she would buy a sword. Of course she did. It shook the earth under my feet what with the memory of the genocide in her state fresh in my mind. As we were wandering through the streets the police were rehearsing the visit of the President of India Abdul Kalam on the next day. Momentariry I forgot the sword and the woman in the crowds on the footpaths and quickly bought a sweater for my daughter. We left chatting about the deliberation in the conference.
My thoughts drifted towards the women who suffered most in the genocide, particularly the ones who were raped and rods and sticks stuck into them. Miraculously some of them survived and dragged themselves to the relief camps. On the kilometers that they traversed no one took pity on them or felt shame for their disrobed bodies. With all the violation of their human rights, women’s rights, why had they to suffer this.
I wondered if Narendra Modi had married and fathered daughters for whom he would have worked for a good future and toiled to get enough to marry them off. (It is a kind of talk of the towns that Modi had married Joshnaben but then abandoned her to appear a celibate like Vajpayee and the sarsang chalaks, a sources of prestige amon the RSS cadres.)Without this felicity of life there is no knowing if he could even contemplate the suffering. Mark Twain was so outraged even by the platitudes of marriage and social life of Jane Austen’s novels that he said to stop her he would have married her and fathered children on her! If that is what domestic felicity could do what about the horrors of families perishing in fire ignited and burnt for destroying homes and families! All this was performed at the altar of a celibate Moloch!
This moved me to write on Gujarat in my blog Commonalty. I chose the name to underline the fact that we humans have much nobler things to live for and that is our concern for fellow humans and especially women irrespective of caste and religion. Nearly 20 years ago I had seen former nurse Miss Aruna Shanbagh in KEM hospital of Parel in Mumbai. Her state of immobility and unconscionable suffering was what the marauders and rapists in Gujarat had multiplied in the stipulated three days. Many of them died in fire and those who survived could not even articulate what happened to them and what they saw. The girl who saw her father dragged and killed before her eyes. It is in the memory of this suffering I wrote the book and dedicate it to them. The frail south Indian paraplegic with his crutches and artificial limbs lying in a pool of blood with his head having struck the iron door when the Hindus fanatics killed him was indelible symbol of the extent to which humans can degenerate. He could not have warded off either. The nine month pregnant whose womb and stomach was chalked and her fetus prized out on the point of a spear and killed and then burnt alive with the mother….









Chapter 1
Hindutva Forces and their in/actions.
While talking with Prabhu Chawla in Seedhi Baat, Aaj Tak August 2004, Narendra Modi said of what he had already achieved: "Democracy is one of the ways to be cleverly employed and manipulated to struggle for a just, absolute, pure Mussalmaan-less society."
Genocide is the result of tense sociopolitical and communal or racial atmosphere created and allowed to prevail in a country in order to perpetrate brutal violence against a weaker and beleaguered section of the society. Gujarat 2002 was in the making much before the onset of the New Year. One tell-tale slogan in the areas under genocide was “what was happening in Kashmir will be avenged in Gujarat,”[wahan ka jawaab yahan se denge.] that they would give pudding if you ask for milk but if you ask freedom for Kashmir they would tear you to pieces.
Modi had already articulated this when he told in regard to Samuel Huntington and his clash of civilization: "As far as the massacre of Hindus by terrorists in Kashmir is concerned, those Islamic militants, in spite of belonging to the enemy civilization, are like our brothers-in-arms. They provide us an opportunity, reason, and excuse to kill the Maulavis of Ahmedabad." It is amusing that even if Gujarat is a border state there is no separatist tendency there among the Muslims. In the wake of the 9/11 Indian government at the centre and the state government in Gujarat jumped on the bandwagon of the US in the so called war on terror and the harmful ideology of ‘either you are with us or against us’ and the preemption, advocated by secretary of state Dr Condoleezza Rice. As developments since the attacks on New York and Pentagon have shown, the Muslims were made victims of a vicious atmosphere created against them especially in India. Added to this was the ongoing juggernaut of building a temple over the demolished mosque at Ajodhya. In fact March 15, 2002 was fixed for a mammoth rally for building the temple. Gujarat had sent its own sizable and prominent volunteers to demolish the Babri mosque and it again figured distinctly in the rebuilding of the temple. The whole atmosphere was thus transformed full ten years afterward and an attempt was made to pump in new blood in the movement to rejuvenate the sagging Hindutva agenda. This could not have been achieved by any other means than creating tension and inter communal clashes. There was aggressive Hindutva mood palpably notable in the atmosphere in the country and specifically Gujarat. Violence was predictable thanks to the training camps for attacking Muslims organized for the armed wing of Rashtrya Swayamsevak Sangh, Bajrang Dal, the massive distribution of the trishul or trident obviously to attack and kill Muslims. There were surveys conducted on Muslim business establishments and ready printouts identifying such were made available to the mobs that were kept ready to loot, burn and destroy them. These have been well documented facts of the history of the genocide.
Narendra Modi succeeded in winning elections in2002, 2007 precisely on the kind of hostile atmosphere against the Muslims that he had nurtured. Full three days of February 28, March 1, 2, 2002 and successive weeks the Hindu fanatical mobs killed and burnt about 3000 Muslims and destroyed their houses and commercial establishments in all the affected areas. Then the boycott of Muslim followed with heinous thought in the back of their mind to starve the Muslims to death or root them out anyway. The boycott has hardly ended although the violence has. Tension continued for years as Muslim victims nursed their wounds helplessly and were too dazed to do anything else. The overwhelming majority of the biased Hindus in the affected areas were still hostile but now indifferent to them and their suffering.
People who were free from the taint of Hindutva and maintained sanity were disturbed by how the minority people had to go through the trauma. Some of them did make heroic efforts to seek justice for them or help them and also sympathize with them. Modi controlled the police and the administration so tightly that there was no chance of getting justice. However there is a thaw now as the arrest of Sanjiv Bhatt and his bail argument started in the court. On October 5, 2011 the High Court judge offered him bail if he went in for police remand just for three hours the judge would grant him bail after it and he could go home. Bhatt not only turned it down but said “You can keep me in remand for 14 days but I won’t go out with these cops even for four minutes.” This has ominous implications as it could mean that he feared that the cops could take him out and kill him since his wife Shweta also voiced concern that when he was shifted to Gaikward Haveli which was notorious for fake encounters there was threat to his life. She felt that the Crime Branch in that house had kept encounter victims before killing them. What better chance to finish him off than another fake encounter! These apprehensions are not without any foundation and hence he remarked that he would not go with the police even for four minutes. It is the most damning thing from the mouth of a senior police officer and a searing indictment of the kind of policing the regime of Narendra Modi ushered in with his election as chief minister of the state. Bhatt rightly called Judge PM Patel a ‘tout’. He remarked “Whatever wrongs the government wants to do I don’t care. I will tolerate it.”
The force with which Bhatt spoke is a breath of fresh air in the fetid Gujarat where the genocide of Muslim made it just that. Even Mahesh Bhatt repeated the same resolve of Bhatt: “I spoke to Sanjiv the evening he was arrested, asking that since the worst had happened, what he needed to tell the world outside. He said it was now for the courts to ensure that the rule of law was imposed in Gujarat and the nation.” It was Modi who had ushered in the law of the jungle and now Bhatt wanted the rule of law to replace it. This clash could be a harbinger of change in Gujarat and it is early to see if it materializes into a revolution outright against the regime of Modi. It is a portentous event nevertheless.
Hindutva is staunch Hindu chauvinism which by its nature militates against minorities like the Muslims and Christians. It is based on the belief that the Hindus descended from the Aryan race with their Hindu religion. Muslims, Christians and others came much afterward. The Muslims conquered India by their sword. According to Hindutva ideology as articulated by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ideologue and chief MS Golwalker only Hindus are the citizens of the country and should remain here. Muslims should accept their Hindu origin and live according to the Hindu culture, but as second class citizens without enjoying full civil rights. Or, at the worst, they would be forced to leave the land or be killed.
Those who lead the cadets of the RSS and guide them at local state units are the paracharaks. Narendra Modi was one such and indeed a staunch one. He would not like to countenance the Muslims either as equal or fellow citizens of the country. Therefore when Ahsan Jafri told the people of Jamnager that they must not be swayed by the Hindutva ideology of the RSS paracharak and maintain sanity and not vote Modi, the chief minister was furious and was burning with a desire to take revenge. He wanted to take revenge in such a way that he would teach Muslims a lesson they would never forget, it would show them their place in the society and they would never again raise their voice.
The strategy of Hindutva is to engage Muslims in a hostile confrontation over issues from time to time so that the atmosphere in the country would be charged with communal tension between the Hindus and the Muslims. The next tactical move would be to create riots and spread them far and wide. That has always paid the right wing Hindus rich dividends immediately in business, trade and jobs and always at the elections. But in 2002 Gujarat Modi had hatched a conspiracy whereby the balance would forever be turned in favour of the Hindus. This could not be done without genocide of the Muslims. Past history of Gujarat shows many communal riots like the one in 1970 in which a thousand Muslims lost their life. Even then it was nothing but riots. Muslims did fight back wherever they could. But, in 2002, Modi specifically told his police not to save the Muslims when they would be attacked during the three days stipulated, beginning with the shutting down of Gujarat by the BJP and the VHP and followed by the shutting down of India in a strike. On his instruction the genocide was carried out with a sense of impunity that they would be shielded from law by lawyers already chosen and briefed; and, police already ordered by their seniors not to book marauders; and, lower caste Hindus and tribals secured for the onerous work of looting and killing. Funds were already collected from abroad. Food packets, wine pouches and money were already in their hands. The houses and shops of Muslims were already marked out.
Leaders from Hindutva groups and functionaries were at the forefront in a kind of division of labour.
To do such an organized and mammoth work the Hindutva groups mobilized their trained cadets and leaders of their diverse groups of the sangh parivar. The leaders led the mobs from the front. Babu Bajrangi (Bajrang Dal leader), Jaideep Patel (VHP general secretary), Maya Kodnani( BJP minister), Atul Vaid (VHP leader), Bharat Teli(VHP leader),Rajendra Vyas, Ramesh Dave, Dhimant Bhatt(staunch Hindu and chief accountant and auditor of MS university), Deepak Shah (Vadodra BJP leader), Anil Patel (VHP leader), Haresh Bhatt (Bajrang Dal, leader and MLA of Godhra), Dhawal Jayanti Patel (VHP leader, bombs were made in his quarries in Sabarkantha), Chetan Shah (VHP leader and leading lawyer of Ahmadabad, defended the accused in Nardoa Patiya, later appointed public prosecutor in Gulberg society case), Dilip Trivedi (general secretary of VHP of Gujarat and pleader in Mehsana handling cases of accused, Bharat Bhatt (VHP district president of Sabarkantha defending accused), Arvind Pandya (government counsel on Nanavati-Shah commission and advocate general sympathetic to accused), Murli Mulchandani, Kakul Pathak, Ranjitsingh Patel, and many others who led the mobs or supplied materials for burning.
The list goes on. But the most crucial player remains Modi. It was he who had chosen the closest aides to do the most immediately satisfying target of destroying his bête noire Ahsan Jafri and the Muslims sheltering in the Gulberg society. It was the most pliant police officer AG Erda who was in charge of the Gulberg society. He did not do anything to prevent the massacre. But when the reinforcement came at 4.30 and Muslim survivors were being evacuated he hatched a conspiracy with the crowd. He told them to pelt stones at the police van and the driver would be ‘scared’ and desert the van. But it so happened that when Erda’s scheme was succeeding, a police inspector of Muslim origin, Pathan, came there and dispersed the crowd!
It was DG Vanzara who was in charge of the Crime Branch and he provided the marauders sumptuous dinner. This is how he conducted investigation. “All three ( Prahlad Raju, Mangilal Jain, Madan Chawl, accused in the Gulberg society massacre) spoke to Tehelka of the royal treatment they received at the hands of the Crime Branch officials investigating the case. They all said that they were extended the best hospitality when they were in police custody and were not interrogated at all. Being in police custody itself, the three said, was a farce, a formality the cops needed to comply with. Chawl said DG Vanzara , who was then posted as DCP (Crime) and was the investigating officer of the Gulberg massacre, never asked him to reveal anything about the massacre. The three said they lied in their police statements and the police didn’t pressurize them to tell the truth.”
Vanzara was the most confidant police officer of Modi and the royal treatment he offered would surely bring him the most coveted trophy, royal share in the fake encounters he would one day organize. So the architect of the genocide was also fully involved in the fake encounters through his closest aides like Amit Shah and Vanzara.
Vanzara and Erda may or may not be members of the RSS but they have the same mindset. Thus Hindutva includes all those Hindus who have gnocidal tendencies in confronting Muslims. As an example is the accountant and auditor general of the MS University of Baroda, Dhimant Bhatt: “I am a staunch Hindu…suppose somebody from the Sangh (RSS) says we have to promote Hindu fundamentalism, I will be the first to volunteer.. I will go and say, brothers, put the Sangh’s lathis [batons] aside and pick upAK-56s because if you have to develop Hinduism, it is clear who the enemies are.” The accountant was not a member of the RSS but he was no different from the trained in arms cadets of the organization because of his mind. Even so all the Hindus cannot be alike and there are more Hindus free from the virus of communalism than the tainted ones of the hideous ideology of intolerance and ethnic cleansing.
Nevertheless, in crisis like the one in Gujarat 2002 they do nothing against the marauding mobs of fellow Hindus. Many Muslim girls and women were raped and sticks and rods were stuck into their vagina and anus. They could neither walk nor sit but fear for life was so intense that they dragged their feet to the relief camps or towards Muslim ghettos in hope of saving whatever was left of their life. On the way no Hindu woman or man took pity on them or felt shame on their nudity. They were terribly thirsty but there was no hope of water as the Hindus watched them from their doors and windows. To them their land had become barren, the waste land, thanks to the curse under which their ruler was ruling.
The whole day on February 27, 2002 the collector of Godhra Ms Jayanthi Ravi maintained that it was a fire accident that had resulted in the death of the 58 passengers of the Sabarmati Express. The Times of India also carried the statement of IGP Railways, PP Agja on March 29, 2002 that there was no evidence of preplanned conspiracy behind Godhra fire accident. “The case is still being investigated and if there was some deep conspiracy, then we are yet to find it. Despite this Modi had already decided to conclude that it was a terroris attack by the Muslims on the Hindus.
“According to the sequence of events as found by the police, all was not well in coach S6 of the Ahmadabad-bound Sabarmati Express on that day. A group of unruly Ram sevaks had boarded the train at Lucknow without reservations and had put to discomfort the 66 genuine passengers of the coach. Some of the ticket-paying passengers had to sleep on the floor, so overcrowded had the compartment become that the ticket collector came aboard the train at Ratlam (two stations before Godhra) was not allowed to enter the coach.” This would mean that there was no preplanned conspiracy of Muslims to set the train on fire. They could not dare any such thing because the Ram sevaks were well armed and ready to attack. Moreover they had shut and stacked the doors of S6 with bags and luggage so that no one not even any passenger could enter the roach.
It was also not possible for anyone to throw any inflammable material from outside. Spot Investigation Report no 2 regarding CR no 9/2002 Godhra Railway Police Station prepared by Dr MS Dahiya, assistant director of Forensic Science Laboratory of the state of Gujarat says: “It was found that the height of the window of the coach was around 7 ft from the ground at the place. Under this circumstance, it was not possible to throw any inflammable fluid inside from outside the coach from any bucket or carboy, because by doing this, most of the fluid was getting thrown out side.”

On the contrary Modi and his cohorts held meetings for several hours and came out with the accusation that Muslims had set fire to the train. They gave a twist to the accident and made it into a terrorist attack. How did they arrive at it? But as the preparations were already made to conduct the genocide, it really started soon. The fire accident was used to spark off violence against the minority that would snowball into premeditated genocide. That is what happened. Even when the Akshardham temple in Ahmadabad was attacked and more people were killed and injured no genocide ensued. That was also the case in Jammu’s biggest temple attack. It was because there was no genocide planned in these cases. Some riots did take place for a short time and over a small area. But Gujarat 2002 was planned for a much larger part of the territory singled out before hand and time was set to accomplish given objective.
This is even more cogent when you look back at recent history. The rath yatra of LK Advani left a bloody trail of Hindu Muslim riots in which hundreds of people died. It was truly terrifying and yet it did not materialize into genocide because the BJP was neither in power at the centre nor at most of the states through which the chariot movement for the demolition of Babri mosque went through. Building the Ram temple was the issue but on the site of the mosque which first would be demolished. That ultimately happened despite the enormous police and paramilitary forces at the hands of the chief minister of BJP ruled UP. But neither during the rath yatra nor during the demolition and aftermath there was any genocide. The police however did act partially; the Muslims did fight back howsoever inadequately what with police bias and being in minority.
But in the case of Gujarat 2002 the police and the administration were on very tight leash. They had to facilitate the genocide or be penalized. Overwhelming number of them preferred the former. During the rath yatra Laloo Prasad Yadav and Mulayam Singh Yadav were the chief ministers of Bihar and UP. They were also Hindus but were not tainted with the Hindutva ideology of intolerance (read, extermination) and dared to arrest Advani and cut short his yatra. As compared to them Modi was all for destruction of Muslims, their life and property and houses. And, if they survived, then what waited for them was their worst boycott and ostracization in the history. All this was sponsored by the state.
It was done at the bidding of Modi. And he went further and blessed them. The chharas are a backward community which the RSS had roped in for the slaughter of Muslims in the well prepared genocide. They were first indoctrinated and then trained and then mobilized when the time came. Suresh Richard was one from the community who had the golden opportunity of having Modi at his door at 7 to 7.30 pm. February 28. Speaking with awe of the chief minister and the black commandoes and the white Ambassador car at his own door and his sisters garlanding the CM, he remarked about Modi: “He went around to all the places ...He said our tribe was blessed. He said our mothers were blessed [for bearing us].” Modi visited Patiya where Babu Bajrangi was present : “Narendrabhai had come to see that things did not stop the next day…He went all around Ahmadabad, to all the places where the miyaas [Muslims] were, to the Hindu areas… told the people they’d done well and should do more…” When the police commissioner issued shoot at sight order against Bajrangi, he went to Gujarat Bhavan at Mount Abu where according to him Modi kept him four and half months.
Thus the architect of the first Hindutva genocide of Muslims in India left no stone unturned to do his job horrendously perfect.
As to the question why Gujarat was chosen for this experiment of Hindutva? The state had a long history of communal violence in which Hindus and Muslims had killed each other. Even an agitation against reservation of jobs for the lower castes of Hindus turned into a full blown riot against the Muslims. Muslim victims hospitalized for treatment of their wounds caused by extremist Hindus were attacked and thrown down upon the concrete from fourth or fifth floors of the hospitals. During such disturbances there was some kind of response of the governments at the state level and the centre whereby it was controlled and some kind of justice done and matters were settled. A very relevant example was the shrine which Hindus had destroyed in 1999 and wanted to rebuild a temple there. Of all the people who favoured this was Haren Pandya. But the police prevailed upon the people and rebuilt the Muslim shrine.
Modi used the fire incident in the Sabarmati Express precisely for the purpose that such a settlement will never be reached and the Muslim would be taught a lesson that they are second class citizens at the sufferance of the Hindus and have no right in the country unless they accept Hindu origin and follow Hindus culture.
The people of Gujarat are human beings. Like all other human beings they are also one tenth nature and nine tenth nurture. They have been well nurtured on the ideology of the Hindu right, Hindutva. This cannot be stretched to include or mean every Hindu in this state of Mahatma Gandhi. But what Bertrand Russell said of humans in general holds true of Gujarat. The girls and women walking with the deadly rods and sticks pierced into their vagina and anus in travail to the relief camps without any pity or mercy trickling out to them from any nook and corner of streets settled by human beings bears witness to this.
Why could only Narendra Modi but not any other chief minister of Gujarat do it? This is of course pertinent question that must have puzzled the pundits of development that Gujarat is proudly displaying. But this raises a host of other questions why could the Hindutva groups not achieve their purposes much before 1992 in demolishing the Babri mosque? They could achieve it when they had their first ever government in Utter Pradesh under Kalyan Singh, the state that includes Ajodhya where the mosque is located. What also facilitated them was the other man in the chair of the Prime Minister of India who did miracles by taking the right step of joining the economy to the world market through his finance minister. But he also chose to fiddle away time as did the chief minister of UP Kalyan Singh who had sworn before the court to keep the mosque in tact despite the mobilization of the Hindu mobs for the building of the temple. What they did is what Modi did. They did not use the enormous paramilitary forces available to them. It was because they wanted to happen what really transpired in Ayodhya and Gujarat. Narsimha Rao, Kalyan Singh, Narendra Modi, LK Advani and AB Vajpayee were all committed to the ideology of the Hindu extremists, the RSS. Some acted by commission others by omission.
As far as running guns and swords to the killers on the assigned job of butchering, there is complicity of the police and paramilitary forces highly biased against Muslims. It is pivotal in crimes of genocide. If the army is neutral they can prevent gun running as the army arrested Madkukar Saroptdar with guns and other weapons when the anti Muslim riots were at the height in Mumbai in 1992-93. He was a Shiv Sena leader actively involved in the murder of Muslims. Bal Thackeray wanted to teach Muslims a lesson then, ala Modi of 2002. He had a close ally in the defence minister of India Sharad Pawar. The duo saw it that no harm would come to Saroptdar. The chief minister of Maharashtra Madhukar Naik accused Pawar of engineering the riots while he chose to stay in Mumbai during the communal clashes. He wanted the defence minister to go out of the state. Nothing happened; the Congress party did not rein in the defense minister but allowed Saroptdar to meet the Prime Minister Narsimha Rao who visited the city. Some such internal dissent and checks and balances were altogether absent in Gujarat and that emboldened Modi to carry out the genocide. His patron and deputy Prime Minister Advani facilely and glibly issued him clean chit one after another from time to time and the Prime Minister Vajpayee engrossed himself in his musings and went by the uproarious applaud for Modi as the new leader of the Hindu hard liners. Had these conscience they would not have prevented Mary Robinson the chief of UN Human Rights Commissison from visiting Gujarat. In fact they were so proactive that they rushed Soli Sorabji and justice Verma chairman of the National Human rights Commission to Geneva to what really turned out to be cover up at the highest echelons of the governments. They also refused permission to Amnesty International to do field research because their alibi was that it was an internal problem of India.
While on the ground the situation of the genocide was so murky. Haresh Bhatt was the owner of a factory where he overtly made crackers and covertly manufactured guns and bombs. “I have my own gun factory.” His factory was in Sarkhej in Ahmadabad and he represented the district of ground zero, Godhra, in the legislative assembly. He averred: “We distributed so many weapons that people were shocked to see how many there were.” He would make them in his factory and test them. This is not an empty boast but a truth. The Hindutva groups and especially RSS have used the RSS centres and even the headquarters at Nagpur for experimenting in bomb making. They feel no inhibition over it. Kanpur is notorious for manufacturing arms and bombs for the RSS. Haresh Bhatt got truck loads from there and other places in UP, MP and other states. Those two states were ruled by the Congress government but the collusion between the communalists and the police and the government officers tainted with Hindutva is so deep that the two trucks carrying swords from Punjab and others from the other states were allowed into Ahmadabad and other places in Gujarat without any hindrances. The weapons ended up in the hands of the trained killers whom the police at most of the times were leading in the attack or supporting or lending them logistical supports.
Suresh Rchard was from the Chharra community. He describes what took place at Naroda Patia: “The police were with us, I can tell you so myself, even now…the police. That day was great.. They were shooting righ in front of us.. they must have killed 70 or 80 or more…didn’t even spare women. We’d finished burning everything and had come back. That was when the police called us.. They said Muslims were hiding in the gutter. Now when we went there, we saw their houses bad all been burned down but seven or eight of them had hidden in the drain…we closed the lid on it...if we’d gone in after them, we might have been in danger. We closed the lid and placed big boulders on it…Later on, they found eight or ten corposes in there… They’d hidden to save their lives, but we closed it off and they died of the gases down there.this happened in the evening…the dhamaal [commotion] went on till night, till about 8.30.”
Many dozens of trucks brought weapons crossing hundreds of miles according to their planning and conspiracy at all the levels of the government. Such a comprehensive interstate preparation could not be without the knowledge and consent of the chief minister who was also the home minister of the state and also his patron LK Advani who was the Home Minister at the centre and also country’s deputy Prime Minister.
Modi proudly calls himself as a follower of Sardar Patel and the six crore Guajarati of his call him chote sardar, the deputy satrap. What he shared more with Patel was exclusivist ideology. Patel would not sit for dinner with Mohammad Ali Jinnah when they attended conferences in pre independence days. One day Jinnah noted it with dismay and thought if the sardar cannot break bread with him how could he share power in the government. When they did make a constitutional power sharing government he was in a hubris mode that he could not appoint even an ordinary servant without the approval of the finance minister who was from Muslim League. He would prefer an India divided than united. Modi shows the same streak most visibly seen in his refusal to wear the Muslim skull cap while he had no qualms in wearing the denominational caps and turbans of all other religions and castes.
How far is ethnic cleansing from this? Symbolized by refusing the fez! It is a stuff of which the latter day genocides are made of. It is not for no reason that many call Modi the Slobodan Milosevic of Gujarat, or a desi-Milosevic because he committed with intent to destroy in whole or part a whole religious group, the Muslims, (1)Killing members of the group; (2) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (3) Deliberately inflicting on the group, conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (4) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; and, (5) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. Even this last is not without some instances of children who ran away in horror of how their parents and family members were decimated. They were never traced even when they escaped the murderous crowds who could not get hold of them. Babu Bajrangi was the desperado who did the most gruesome killings. This is what he did to Kausar Bano. She was nine months in her pregnancy. He tore her belly while she was still alive and wrenched out her fetus, held it on the tip of his sword and then dashed it on the ground and then flung it into the flames. In words reminiscent of his mentor and CM, Bajrangi called her “ek who pregnant bitch sala”. (That damned pregnant bitch, sister fucker.)
That kind of intense hatred of Muslims is again the dominant stream of the likes of Milosevic, Modi and Bajrangi. Bajrangi: “They (Muslims) should not be allowed to breed. I say this even today, even if they are women or children.” “Muslims! They don’t deserve to live.”
The secretary for Home in Modi government today is MD Manoj Antani. He was a police officer at Bharuch during the massacre and this is what he said: “These Muslims are filthy people, burn them to ashes!” (Yeh sab kshan Muslims hain, unko jala do aur khakh kar do!)
In 1999 the atmosphere in Naroda Patia was different. Communal divide was sharp but the police were free from any executive order to go for the Muslims. The Hindu extremists had demolished a shrine and wanted a temple built there. In the forefront of the mob were VHP’s Dr Jaideep Patel and Maya Kodnani. They along with eight others were arrested by the police. At that time Haren Pandya was home minister and he put pressure on the police to withdraw the case and release the culprits. The police stood their ground and did not allow Hindus to build a temple. On the contrary they repaired the shrine and maintained peace and law and order. It was Keshhubhai Patel who was chief minister and not Narendra Modi. With the induction of Modi as chief minister next year the equation changed as he was the catalyst agent of change for the worst.
Change is seen in the way laws and criminal procedure codes are applied or not applied due to ulterior reasons of perpetrating genocide or covering it. In matters relating to arrest like that of Sanjiv Bhatt the Gujarat government applied CrP code 194 which calls for even death sentence. But in the case of the twelve accused in Haren Pandya case the police fabricated evidence against 12 Muslims falsely accused and also in a host of other cases involving Muslims. Yet the government and the police never bothered to apply this harsh code 194. A valid argument was made regarding this when Ram Vilas Paswan of LJP demanded: "There is no law to punish cops and officials of investigative agencies who have arrested innocent people by fabricating evidences and cases against them. Government must look at it to ensure a fair trial in terror cases." "After every terror incident, doubt is raised on people from the Muslim community. Government should set up a special fast track court to dispose of all these cases within a year." “We are not trying to give clean chit to anyone, but we are asking for a fair and speedy trial in such cases." This kind of anguish is also for the Gujarat of 2002 as it is for the fabricated cases of terrorist attacks.
Such a demand seems quite reasonable; however, the BJP (the Hindu party, Bhartiya Janta Party) does not want to even bother about it. Hundreds of such cases with fabricated evidence under the very nose of Modi were and still are coming up every day. Has the government in Gujarat or elsewhere even thought of applying 194 in such cases? Why is Modi above law? His party is also complicit in the genocide as much as he. In the most glaring cases like the massacres at Naroda Patiya, the fake encounters of Sohrabuddin, Prajapati or Ishrat Jahan it has turned a blind eye to all these. In what way is there a possibility of holding India together? If the Communal and Targeted Violence Bill can bring a measure of justice to Muslims, the RSS sees red herring here and its chief Mohan Bhagwat has exhorted his cadets to take it to the streets. No one should be in a delusion that all these do not pose a direct threat to the existence of the Muslim minority in India. Genocide is genocide, slow or fast. Similarly, justifying Modi is justifying genocide be it Advani, Vajpayee, Tata or Ambani. In the same way the Om Shakti group of Illol near Mangalore finds Pragya as ‘dharma saviour’ and she it was who wanted a huge number of Muslims in thousands killed in Malegaon 2008. How can they quote scripture to exhort genocide or justifying the one that already has happened? “ Yada yada hi dharmasya/ glanir bhavati bharatha/ abhyuthanam adharmasya/ tadatmanam srijami aham ” ('Whenever there is a decline in righteousness, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of unrighteousness, at that time I descend Myself.) The PUCL president of Mangalore has obviously said “Ever since BJP has come to power in Karnataka, no action has been taken against such miscreants so far.” Similarly Digvijay Singh has voiced another concern of the same kind. "This is how the fascist works. Whatever you see happening in Gujarat today where Bharatiya Janata Party has a majority, you shall see in India, god forbid, if the BJP gets majority in Delhi...Wherever BJP gets majority, BJP takes such fascist steps." Singh did not have to wait long when what he foretold about Delhi overreached Delhi on October 12, 2011 when Prashant Bhushan was attacked by Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga, (president of Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena) and three others Vishnu Gupta and Inder Verma (chief of Ram Sena in Delhi) and one Anand. In the follow up Bhushan’s supporters were attacked by goons the next day. Anna Hazare’s praise of Modi without bothering his moral turpitude including rank corruption also came home to roost right in the maidan where he fasted and applauded development in Gujarat. The assault also reminds what Shanti Bhushan said that Modi was the most communal man and he was ready to fight a case against the chief minister in court if any victim of genocide so desired. Those who are communal are also corrupt without their realizing that communalism is the worst kind of corruption. One hides the other. Was not Modi getting his share in kick back from the racketeering that his minister of state for home Amit Shah was conducting? “The attack is also proof — if any were needed — that corruption and communalism cannot be fought separately.” (Editorial The Hindu October 14, 2011) “One disturbing aspect of the attack is the perverse form of nationalism espoused by the perpetrators. The mastermind — Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga, president of an organisation called the Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena — went to the extent of proclaiming Mr Bhushan a traitor and justified the attack with an obnoxious tweet: “ he tried to break my country, so I tried to break his head”. (Editorial Mail Today October 14)
In the multiple copycat masks of Modi called mukhota there is the one which is missing, that of the corrupt, as everyone joins in singing hosannas to him. He had been selling government lands at throw away prices: What for? Communalism is so skimpy a pair of spectacles that it cannot hide the contours of the corrupt face calculating the gains in a hush. The glint of the glass in the sun could daze Anna, Ambani and Tata but to the discerning it cannot. The most communal are also the most corrupt because their rabid nationalism hides the killer in them. And as Dr Samuel Johnson famously said: patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. In the worlds of Julio Ribeiro Modi is that pseudo patriot. They enjoin the police to perpetrate communal violence.
The communal Hindu parties like BJP and Shiv Sena had always patronized the police. The reason is quite obvious. They share the spoils of office. A German researcher found out that Shiv Sena leaders invest money in getting plum post to get more than their investment. They have their cohorts in the force who help them when they are caught in communal riots. Their criminal cases at the time of riots and in seizure of arms or even bomb blasts (as in the second bomb blast in Nanded) are diluted or even records destroyed by the cops sympathetic to right wing ideology. What distinguished Modi from other right wing extremist leaders of Hindutva was his presumption that he was too shrewd and crafty to be ever caught. He simply awed many by swelling his chest with deep breath and hand gestures and dilating eyes staring into the fawning crowds. The 35 plus IPS officers who openly came out in support of Sanjiv Bhatt on October 9th were motivated not just because their being colleagues of Bhatt but for his valiant fight against the chief minister. He believed that Modi was involved in the killings of Muslims he had allowed the Hindutva forces to conduct for three days and more and the IPS’s Officers Association knew this well and came out to fight.
Many of the officers are tech savvy and had recorded the genocide on their computers as far as vital clues are concerned. They must have had apprehension that communication records and other such records are at the disposal of the government which would one day wipe out the trace that leads to Modi, PC Pande, the second in command (ala former Yogoslavia genocide of Muslims) etc. “It looks like a tech-heavy fight against chief minister Narendra Modi in Gujarat as four IITians are lined-up against him.” The stand taken by Mukul Sinha (a lawyer now but formerly a plasma physicist with the Physical Laboratory of Ahmadabad), Satish Verma, Rahul Sherma and Sanjiv Bhatt, is not against Modi as a politician but as the architect of genocide. The most telling sentence of the genocide was made by KK Mysorewall who told the hounded and haunted Muslims seeking refuge at the Special Reserve Police force camp in Naroda Patia stonily told them that there was order from above that that day they should not save them! Around the same time the minister of state for home Gordhan Zadaphia passed Sundernager with two police vans escorting him. He slowed down the car and put out his hand with “V” sign with his fingers and took a turn to the high way number 8. At that the marauding mobs cheered by shouting another equally shocking and tell-tale sentence “yeh ander ki baat hai police hamare sath hai” (This is secret from inside the government that the police are with them.) The sentence crystallizes that the home minister of Modi was in charge of the police and his gesture was a license to kill the Muslims. Therefore when the Hindu extremists flatter the police with offer of amenities it has one dimension that their bias and complicity in genocide or every day riots is well established and entrenched. On October 9th the executive president of Shiv Sena asked the government to give priority of jobs to the sons of police men. This speaks volumes as his father also played this role in 1993 massacre of Muslims in Mumbai. However, the examples of RB Sreekumar, Rahul Sharma, Satish Verma and Sanjiv Bhatt and scores of others show that good men are always there and they have the integrity that is why they become the eyesore of genocidal despots like Modi.
Rahul Sharma it was who established the fact that there was close connection between the politicians and the police when the genocide was in full swing. He made the epoch making recording of CDs in India. He had submitted the original copy to the Nanavati commission as well as other investigation agencies. That he did such a wonderful thing that it clearly nailed the BJP and RSS and VHP leaders as directing the killer mobs to the Muslims became festering wound on the sangh parivar, the Hindu extremists. One of them was Arun Jaitley in his linguistic gymnastics he accused the honest police officer as walking away with evidence. If the groups have still an iota of conscience left the CDs are still with the authorities. How quickly Gujarat government destroyed the police station and control room phone record shows that the Hindu right cannot and will never punish guilty cops. Thus the genocide of Muslims by Hindutva will ever remain stigma.
As Hemant Karkare used science to detect Sadhvi as the terrorist behind Malegaon2008 blasts so did the IITians of Kanpur, Delhi and Mumbai to nail the architect of the genocide and his guilty cops and fellow office bearers from RSS/Bajrang Dal/VHP/BJP. As contemporary history is unfolding Modi, Advani, Jaitley et al do not have even crocodile’s tears to shed.
What is unfolding in Gujarat is the massive and all embracing attempt to cover up the genocide and the fake encounters that followed and are a thematic and legal extension of it. Satish Verma’s exposing his fellow members of SIT on this is the ongoing instance of anguish many feel over the justice system that Modi had subverted and is still continuing to subvert with impunity.
The proposed Communally Targetted Violence Bill is the anathema for the BJP and RSS because it would prevent police from shielding the criminals involved in massacres of Muslims and other minorities, religious, lingual, regional, etc. The police had led mobs in Gujarat to attack Muslims and Modi saw it that they are saved from the clutches of law. Look at the most notorious and front page cover genocidal killer Babu Bajrangi along with his boss Modi moving freely as if nothing has happened. Modi’s bust on the Society magazine has still mesmerized many who have been swept over their feet by this guru of mantra of development --- sultan of genocide wrought with his sleight of hand--is also the Milosevic of Gujarat 2002.
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http://zeenews.india.com/news/nation/special-court-for-false-cases-against-muslims-ljp_735610.html
Karnataka: Hoarding projets Malegaon blast accused Sadhvi Pragya as saviour of Hinduism
http://communalism.blogspot.com/2011/10-karnataka-hoarding-project-malegaon-html
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/tech-heavy-war-4-iit-brains-gunning-for-modi/articleshow/10297848.cms
saamna October 10, 2011.
Tehelka November 3, 2007
Freedom at Midnight. DominiqueLapierre and Larry Collins. Allied publishers 1977.











Chapter 2

Genocide and abdication of responsibility


“Hinduon ka gussa uttarne do teen din tak (Let the Hindus vent their ire for three days) Narendra Modi Chief Minister of Gujarat
Genocide is an organized and planned action by a group against another. It is not just a few people who take the law in their hands and come out in the street and kill their enemies. There is a detailed preparation for it following a conspiracy to decimate “the other.” The wherewithal to do such heinous bloody works needs more than just able bodied men and women and deadly weapons of annihilation. Women! Yes, women. Women were there in the crowds who took active part in the genocide. The photos in Tehelka show them in action. Nay, the Modi government’s minister of women and child health, Maya Kodnani exhorted the Hindus to kill Muslims more and more. It was she who went around Naroda Patia and other places egging on the crowds to do a thorough job of finsishing the minority.
Gujarat 2002 was not riots as is the official version. It was long thought of and carefully prepared conspiracy in advance. A riot is a disturbance consisting of wild and turbulent conduct of a large number of persons who clash violently against each other. In Gujarat this was not so. The Hindus (not all, certainly) had hatched the conspiracy and came down upon the Muslim minority who had lived with them peacefully till then, like Ode village. There were 58 people burnt alive in the coach of the Sabarmati Express that caught fire at Godhra on the morning of February 27, 2002. Thereafter, violence erupted, followed by stray incidents of stabbing in Ahmadabad, Anand, Vadodra, etc. As a reaction 65 persons from the Muslim community travelling in a tempo from Kidiad to Modasa in Sabarkandtha were burnt alive at Babaliya, Khanpur chowki Panchmahal on the same day. Modasa has a sizable Muslim population, an eyesore to the Hindutva groups which also targeted it in a bomb attack on September 29, 2008 along with Malegaon in Maharashtra. The earlier event of February 27th 2002 was the onset of the genocide.
It was not in a Newtonian way at all. The action led to not just unequal and opposite reaction but far more outweighed than what had happened at Godhra. On the same day 5 more Muslim were killed in Godhra alone. Early next day on February 28 at 10 am the whole families of Shabbir Ahmed Khurshid Ahmed and Mehmud Ahmed Khurshid Ahmed were wiped out in the initial attacks in Nunaroda Patiya and Naroda Gam. A well armed mob in khakhi half pants and in saffron vests and black bandana tied on the fore head had descended on the thousand Muslims who lived there. All was according to preplanning and their action was well organized. They would mix readily available solvent in the petrol before setting fire to the Muslims, their property and mosques. They would unseal gas cylinders and throw them into the fire to cause maximum damage and destruction. At first the Muslims trapped there resorted to stone pelting in self defence but then the police opened fire at them and killed four and then let the Hindu fanatics finish the work of liquidating the Muslims.
So many gas cylinders were stocked well in advance that there was severe shortage of them in affected areas. There are owners of gas cylinder agencies who freely let the mobs carry away them to the most horrendous destruction for more than three days.
There were many occasions when the constitutional obligation required the state governor, the President to step in to check why there was gross violation of duty on the part of the chief administrative officer, the chief minister of a state, if he had behaved in a very unconstitutional manner. KR Narayanan, the President of India, did write to the Prime Minister Vajpayee asking him to take cognizance of the large scale massacre of Muslims in Gujarat 2002 and stop the violence. The PM simply ignored it. The governor of the state did not fulfill his duties. For example, the article 159 of the Constitution explicitly says that he will to the best of his ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution and the laws of the land and that he will devote himself to the service and the well-being of the people of the State. The governor of the state of Gujarat did not raise a finger when the genocide of Muslims was taking place. Even when the President of India insistently wrote protesting the slaughter of Muslims in the state of Gujarat to the Prime Minister, Vajpayee went into his familiar taciturnity, ‘asleep at the wheel’ (to use the words of a US journalist). But when the conclave of his party went into session in Goa he strangely went to the other extreme and remarked that the Muslims had problems living together with their neighbours!
He belatedly visited Gujarat and overtly chided Modi by reminded him his rajdharma which means his duty as a civil administrative chief to rule with justice and humanity. He was entrusted with the safety and security of the people of his state. But Modi did exactly the opposite. He justified the massacre of the Muslim in terms of the Newtonian law, he exhorted that his administration must let the Hindus take full revenge for three days, that they must teach the Muslim a lesson they would not forget in their life, that the balance of justice must tilt towards the Hindus once and forever. The last is the most terrific aspect because it calls for the destruction of Muslim life and property in such a huge manner that the Muslims would never dare to ever ask for equal treatment before the laws of the land. This Modi achieved as one of the cardinal tenets of Hindutva or RSS. History has strange ways of unfolding events. Modi is still at the helms of the affair of his state and hopes to replicate it when he moves to the central government, the apple of his eyes and the bugaboo the Hindu extremist fantasize him to be. BJP hardliner Arun Shourie held out even his name to thwart Muslims from demanding implementation of the recommendations of the Sachar Commission recommendations according to which 15 per cent funds would go for the amelioration of the wretchedness prevalent among the downtrodden Muslims of India.
Modi also made overtures to the hardliners all through his career as a demagogue. He and the hardliners are birds of the same feather. They are stark communalists and hence inimical to commonalty.
Ever growing need for commonalty is threatened by ever increasing communalism in the country. Commonalty is the concern for humankind on the basis of their wants and situation in life as well as their problems and aspirations. Communalism is dividing the humankind on the basis of religion and pitting one group against the other in considering with a bias wants, situation in life as well as problems and aspirations of the people.

There will be two different perspectives when the matter of dealing with justice the question of the Muslims in the country, especially their development and their massacre and subsequent their plight in Gujarat since 2002 is concerned. The National Development Council that met in Delhi on Wednesday December 19, 2007 to approve the 11th five year plan document witnessed the clash between commonalty and communalism.
It is universally acknowledged within the country that Muslims are more backward than any other group of our population. The Sachar Commission report makes a sobering realization of the present day tangent truth. Everyone knows but most do not want to do anything in this regard. A burgeoning economy like ours can afford to march further in the near foreseeable future. But in the long run this would increase and enlarge ghettoization to such an extent that there would be enclaves like Nagorna Karabekh and Kosovo, if they are not already there. Gujarat has made Juhapura famous all over the world as the ghetto of Muslims and it has its “borders” thanks to Modi and his vendetta against the minority. He has also turned it into hunting ground for police who regularly first visit it to search for youths of the community whom they suspect to have become potential terrorists to avenge 2002 genocide. This has become a trend after every bombblasts since the genocide.
The Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh while addressing the audience which included the chief ministers of states took a commonalty approach when he said "The goal of this plan (recommended 15 point programme for the improvement of the lot of the minorities, especially the Muslims) is to invest in our people to enable them to become active participants in economic growth processes. The plan does not attempt to divide people on the basis of caste, creed or gender or religion..The plan does pay special attention on the needs of these marginalized groups and targets them in a precise manner.

"Inclusiveness does mean better targeting and it is not at the cost of other groups. You will all agree that if we hope to have a prosperous, equitable, just India, we must cover all groups and ensure that no one is left”.
But that is what exactly two BJP chief ministers from Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh opposed.
Have the Muslims ceased to be part of the social fabric of India? When?
Modi has a different sense of society; perhaps his spin doctors told him that he represented the middle class and they feel like him. This self delusory strategy worked in the relief camps when Modi closed down the camps on July 1st 2002 from where the victims had nowhere to go as their commercial establishments, jobs and works were totally destroyed along with their houses, lock stock and barrel. The ration and medicine in the camps were too scanty to go around and then this expulsion! Modi dubbed the camps as the breeding grounds of “we five and our twenty five”. What he could not provide to his own population worst affected by his state sponsored pogroms he was niggardly about for the rest of the country where similar groups exist. As he lectured the audience for which the PM rebuked him he had the temerity to say: "The New 15 Point Programme that focuses on earmarking certain outlays of various developmental schemes and programmes of the government of India amongst the eligible beneficiaries, based on their minority status, should be reviewed in the interest of maintaining the social fabric (italics added for insight) of the nation. Such discrimination( italics to show ironic contrast with his own practice of discriminating compensating the bereaved families, one lakh for Muslims and two lakh for the Hindus killed), amongst the eligible beneficiaries, for flow of funds based on minority status, will not help the cause if taking the people of India together on the path of development."
This was and continues to be a clear and most flagrant attempt to carry the laboratory experiment result from Gujarat to the rest of the country. In other words, the minorities, in particular Muslims, do not deserve any uplift or entitlement. As he managed the pogroms and then the closure of the relief camps and the divisive and unjust relief given to the relatives of the dead, and the boycott they face and their virtual disenfranchisement, and then the fake encounters in the name of patriotism,
On the 1st of July 2002 the victims of the holocaust (that is what Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called the genocide) were turned away from the relief camps as the camps were closed, at the same time the world also saw the International Criminal Court coming into existence. It will prosecute individuals accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. There are 18 judges and a prosecutor elected by the ratifying countries. This was a great step forward in the protection of human rights and international justice. Now individuals have a right in international law that would safeguard their right against torture, right to life and dignity as practiced by governments.
Every ratifying member country of course should try anyone of its nationals (within its own jurisdiction) who is accused of genocide, crimes against humanity, like rape, massacre or war crimes. If such a country does not do this, any victim of such a crime is entitled to go to ICC and seek prosecution of the perpetrator of crimes against humanity or war crimes and genocide. This is recognized as the principle of complementarity. Crimes committed before July 1, 2002 do not come under the purview of ICC. This is known as the principle of non-retroactivity. The rule of complementarity is a breath of fresh air in the fetid atmosphere of oppression and suppression that is commonly found in countries like Rawanda and former Yugoslavia. This would deter countries where national courts conduct sham trial or fail to investigate such crimes at all. Gujarat is far ahead of the rest of the country and even the world in this field.
Moreover, what about the continued torture of a people as a result of the action which took place before July 1, 20002. Thousands of riot affected people in Ahmedabad and elsewhere in Gujarat were forced out of the relief camps and this has continued even after July 1, are they not entitled to international intervention for justice as their right to life and right to dignity and right to equality are denied. All this despite promises of rehabilitation! Out in the monsoon rains with no shelter and sans succour! In one such a case a man who lost his house received just Rs 70 as compensation. A girl took the government cheque from the hands of her father and tore it because her house had cost several lakh and the government had sanctioned a meager two thousand rupees. Their denial of human rights constitutes crimes against humanity and it is continuing though the genocide took place nearly nine years ago. Those affected by the pogroms are from the minority Muslim community which has very few doctors to treat its wounded and burnt and even fewer lawyers to plead their cases in courts. And all this on account of the boycott of the majority community’s guilds of doctors and lawyers, a boycott fully sponsored by the state!
Fake encounters followed on the heels of the carnage. They were nothing but continuation of the genocidal acts against the Muslims. Modi blamed the Muslims for the Godhra mishap and then he justified the encounters as extrajudicial punishment to the smugglers and terrorists and the jihadists. The murder of Sohrabuddin became the focus of fighting strategy of election in 2007. He was given what amounted to no less than summary execution of people alleged to be criminals and terrorists. It was only later that facts emerged that the much vaunted patriotism and summary execution howsoever wrongly and feloniously justified was even worse than legal wrangling of the terms. Such cases were cold blooded murders and then destruction of the eye witnesses through fake encounters. They were also used to run a racket in which the marble lobby and the builders lobby would play very crucial role.
During all this did a single governor ask Modi to explain what was going on? Or, why the Rapid Action Force which had arrived in Godhra was not given order to quell disturbance? Why were they allowed to rest and enjoy their time in the officers’ mess? Why did Modi change judges until a pliant judge came and granted bail to Babu Bajrangi? Who had given authority to the police commissioner PC Pande of Ahmadabad to disperse several hundred dead bodies of Muslims to other areas to lessen the enormity of the crimes at Naroda Patia?
Modi had hijacked the whole administration of the state to carry out the genocide and then cover up the crimes by appointing public prosecutors who were not only novices but members of the extremists in the rank and files of the Vishwa Hindu Paishad, the RSS and Bajrang Dal. He awarded lucrative posts and after retirement benefits of office to those who were involved in the genocide. And those officers who showed honesty and integrity in their duty were punished. Whey did not the governor and the central government step in to stop the massacres and the cover up? Why were the relief camps closed peremptorily for the sake of charade of normalcy so that election could be held in 2002 itself?
Why did the SIT leak its findings to the advocate general Tushar Mehta? Why did not the government take disciplinary action against him and the leakers? Many of the lawbreakers went public with their voluntary disclosure of gross violation of the human rights and told Tehelka of what they had done. Why has the government not taken suo motto note and initiated inquiry into the self confessed crimes?
The genocide was well planned and executed mercilessly in which nearly three thousand Muslims lost their life and many uncountable suffered serious injury and loss of livelihood. This could only happen in a functional democracy! It happened so because everything was done when the guarantors of the Constitution looked the other way. The atmosphere was so vitiated against the Muslims that the people of the state were fed with falsehood and were not in a position to do what some of them could have done to stop the murders and mayhem.
These are very serious matters of dereliction of duty as they also contributed to the genocide and have led the world to hold the government responsible: “The violence that was unleashed against Muslim communities and on women from the Muslim communities in particular, in the state of Gujarat, India from February 27, 2002, onwards was beyond description in its horror. Its efficacy in showing the worst effects of communalism combined with a thirst for political power is unmatched in the post-independence Indian history.”

As in the case of Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda and other such places genocide gathers momentum with ethnic cleansing. The victims are those in minority pockets and suffer most like the Muslims, Hutu or Tutsi, etc. In Gujarat the chief minister and his henchmen like Babu Bajrangi, Praveen Togadia set the tone and tenor of clearing the land of their pure conception of Gujarat or India of those who came later and ‘defiled’ it. Muslims were made out to be unclean as they were carnivorous and set apart from the dominant Gujarati culture of vegetarianism. It was ironic that Bajrangi prided himself to be herbivorous who could also rape and kill like the Muslims and wanted the Muslims to remember that he as a kechdi eater was as ferocious as they! So the Muslims were objectified as the other who have brought obstacles in the way of development and posed a threat to the culture of the land. Thus the Hindu extremists who stripped naked a Hindu girl Geeta, abused her and then quartered her and burnt her alive felt that she had brought dishonor to their religion and culture by marrying a Muslim called Salim. In April, 2002 the couple was betrayed into a trap when the people made them visit their relatives in Ahmadabad. In fact the most dreaded killer was a full time worker of the Hindutva. His work was to find out Hindu girls who marry Muslims and trace them. He would often abduct such girls or women and return them to their parents and demand huge amount of money. During the pogroms he was fierce in pursuing his goal of achieving ethnic cleansing. He was a bogey like Modi.
The election campaign of Chief Minister of Gujarat at Mangrol reached a climax; he stirred the emotion by his insidious reference to the fake encounter death of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kauser. He was at his communal best when he vowed to shield Taslima Nasrin and within the same week justified the fake encounter murders. About Sohrabuddin he remarked “he got what he deserved.” He asked his people in Mangrol, south Gujarat, on December 4, 2007: What would the people do to the man who dealt in smuggling guns. They thundered: “kill him". "Then if I have done anything wrong, let the government of Sonia Gandhi hang me," he said. There is a more accurate version of the Tuesday meeting of Mangrol:
Modi asked, "What should have been done to a man from whom a large number of AK-47 rifles were recovered, who was on the search list of police from four states, who attacked the police, who had relations with Pakistan and was eyeing to enter Gujarat?"
The crowd replied "mari nakho, mari nakho (kill him)" to which the Chief Minister responded, "Does my Government need to take permission of Soniaben for this?"
Modi has thrown down his gauntlet not only to Congress but to the judiciary of our nation, as well as the Election Commission.
Given Modi’s justification of the murder of Sohrabuddin and his wife Kauser and his tacit involvement in it [or else why should he wish to be hanged] and the asseveration of Haresh Bhatt, Anil Patel and Dhawal Jayanti Patel of their evil deeds, it is mockery of justice in India that he is still there in power and the others walking freely.
The systematic boycott of the Muslims wrought disaster on them. Who brought about this collateral calamity for the whole community? Was it not a link in the overall strategy of punishing the Muslims and making their survival impossible after the horrendous crimes of rape, murder, loot and arson?
The prevention of Muslim survivors from returning to their houses, farms, shops, and other commercial establishments and jobs, or whatever little was still left is genocidal. They are reduced to grim scenario of extinction en mass.
Subversion, systematic and premeditated, of the judiciary process by misusing official position involves the CM in genocidal juggernaut of the state machinery.
These are “a group of crimes that the international community of nations has declared to be criminal offences against the whole human race because they shock the conscience of all humankind and are an affront to humanity…The international criminal norms known as ‘crimes against humanity’ create international responsibility of individuals under international law for certain horrendous acts of violence against human beings.”
These issues remain to be addressed and redressed irrespective of who wins the next election. This must not be partisan matter, left to either of the two main parties contesting there. Non governmental organizations, human rights chapters, civil liberty groups must mount fresh and concerted efforts to get full justice to the victims of the genocide as well as any other victim of crimes that may be different.
Determining the extent of criminal acts and fixing punishment for it must begin with the use of international law as crimes against humanity is violation of international law. First of all who is a perpetrator? “A person or state who commits human rights violation. The term is sometimes used to describe one who causes such violation to occur through others.” Thus Modi asking his police and administrators to let the Hindus vent their anger for three days constitutes a perpetration of crimes against humanity and Modi as the principal perpetrator.
Modi is fully accountable for what happened in 2002. It was his constitutional duty to protect the lives of all the people. He not only caused the mass murder of Muslims but he asked his police and officers to let it happen and then subverted the judicial system to protect the murderers, rapists, arsonists and looters. Accountability is basic human rights law and implies that nobody is above law or immune from it. An example of the legal procedure is the trial of Lieutenant William Calley of the US army for the My Lai genocide in the Viet Nam, of Slobodan Milosevic in the massacre of Muslims in the former Yugoslavia.
But of course, there is also the urgency of what to make of what Modi said on December 4, 2007: “They want me to answer why I killed Sohrabuddin? Sohrabuddin was a notorious criminal who had links with Pakistan and from whose farm house AK 47s were recovered. So what should I have done with him? Pooja? Or should I have called up Sonia Behen before he was killed? I am thumping my chest and declaring that Sohrabuddin ‘s encounter had taken place on the dharti (land) of Gujarat. If I have done something wrong, hang me.”
People committing crimes against humanity can be tried internationally, not necessarily in the country where they have committed them. Modi taunted “Why not a court in Pakistan?” In the famous case Soering v. United Kingdom, the European Court of Human Rights had transferred it to the US because of the long death row ordeal there.
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Human Rights in the United States. A Dictionary and Documents. Rita Canstos Cartwright and H. Victor Conde. ABc-CLIO. 2000.
Threatened Existence: A Feminist Analysis of the Genocide in Gujarat, Report by the International Initiative for Justice (IIJ) December 2003.
Parvis Ghassen-Fachandi. Porgrom in Gujarat: Hindu Nationalism and Anti-Muslim Violence in India. Princeton University, 2011.


















Chapter 3
Narendra Modi, chief minister as the architect of genocide
Even before Narendra Modi took office he was starkly communal and especially abhorrent of Muslims. He did not learn a new terminology hateful of Muslims overnight along with his swearing on his holy book before the high court judge at the time of assuming office. Thereafter he abused his office primarily in his diabolic design against the minority whom he continued to scorn at will. When he was his party in charge in Punjab his close associate was Rajendr Kumar of Intelligence Bureau, this association would come home to roost.
Intelligence Bureau is tainted with the infiltration of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh cadets cum government servants. They enjoy the perks of office and leisure to hatch conspiracy against the Muslims as they run their house with the hefty pay packets. Most of the right wing activists in the government services have this streak. Years later Kumar would use IB to churn out the theory that the Muslims/ISI were behind the Sabarmati Express fire incident. Kumar would also try to brief RB Sreekumar when the election commissioner JM Lyngdoh visited Gujarat. Of course now it is history that the chief of intelligence wing of the state government RB Sreekumar called the massacre of Muslims as genocide. Since then he added more reason to believe so.
However, there were other senior police officers who were there or visited Gujarat during the troubled days and saw through the events as nothing but genocide and understood fully the man who wrought it so craftily. Jaspal Singh was noteworthy because he showed how Modi could be nailed along with others. He was a senior police officer and later BJP leader. These people saw his signature everywhere. Julio Ribero observed: “When the police are not doing their job, the Chief Minister and the Home Minister should intervene. I am not here to make judgments about the working of the government. But I’ll find out why the police have failed.’’ The moot question is did he really find it? Or, rather could he find it? The chief minister had instructed the police to let the Hindus take revenge which prevented not only police taking action but insidiously incited them to take part in the massacre. Of course they did. This was a welcome chance to go openly for the Muslims as many of them are highly biased. Ribeiro was amazed by what he saw. ‘‘I am here because I want to study the reasons which lead to their failure. Officers like P.C. Pande cannot fail.’’ However Pande did fail? Why did Pande fail? He did not do it on his own but he was failed by Modi. He did issue shoot at sight against Babulal Patel alias Babubhai Bajrangi. This exception proves the fact that the police were controlled and checked by Modi and the two ministers Ashok Bhatt and Ik Jadeja in the police control rooms. But this does not exonerate the officers by any means. They became complicit in the crimes the moment they obeyed orders from above (in the words of KK Mysorewalla). How could Pande or any officer have a free hand as Ribiero himself was given by no other than the Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in appointing him the commissioner of Ahmadabad in 1985? ‘‘There has to be a political will to stop the violence. Then, the police should stop looking to politicians for orders. ” There was no political will to stop violence in 2002 on the contrary Modi and his cohorts wanted worst perpetration of violence and destruction of Muslims to teach them such a lesson that they would never forget and raise their head! Given this brief to the police by no other than the chief minister and monitored by Bhatt and Jadega from the police control room what do you do? It is this kind of depravity on the part of the government that necessitates an outside agency like the UNO making investigation so that nobody would be above law. Till today Modi, Bajrangi, Jaideep Patel, Pravin Togadia, Maya Kodnani, Amit Shah, Zadhaphia, and a host of others including the murderers in their thousands have proved to be de facto above the national laws of the country. In 1984 anti Muslim riots in Mumbai Ribeiro rounded up 120 shakha pramukhs or chiefs of the Hindu party Shiv Sena which immediately stopped the killing of Muslims. Modi prevented this through his position in office and through his lieutenants including ministers. A telling example is that when Ribeiro visited Ahmadabad for three days in the first week of April 2002 police officers of Gujarat including PC Pande were stopped from meeting him. In all previous meetings before the genocide they would give him a reception! Modi did even that and he is still in office as the elected head of the government. His party has never lost a single opportunity to prevent what it calls “appeasement” of Muslim but has never raised a finger at him and his accomplices in the crimes of genocide.
To a pointed question from the newsmen Ribeiro made it clear that Modi had held the higher ranks of police officers in his thralldom: What in your opinion was the reason for the failure of the police in Gujarat? “The top brass must take the blame. I did not sense a whiff of leadership from top police officers. Senior officers have been reduced to mute spectators as they have little control over the force. Generally, senior police officers discipline errant subordinates by transferring them to insignificant wings. But in Gujarat, officers from the subordinate ranks manipulate all the transfers and postings at the police-station level, which is the cutting edge of the force.” A substitute of thralldom is subversion. This is how Modi subverted law and order through his ministers: Did you come across any instance of political interference? “I was told that 95 per cent of the transfers in Gujarat police were done by one man, Gordhan Zadaphiya, the minister of state for home. He shifted all senior police officers who happened to be Muslims to branch stations, such as the traffic and prohibition departments and repeated it at the police station level.
As Prabhat Patnaik says “And it a state where the administration is run by a ‘hands-on’chief minister, a trait for which he is being constantly lionized, the sins of the administration in 2002 can’t but be laid at hisdoor.” Around the time Ribeiro spoke to Stavan Desai in April 2002 the US Human Rights Watch also published its detailed finding in a volume significantly titled “WE HAVE NO ORDERS TO SAVE YOU” State Participation and Complicity in Communal Violence in Gujarat. The spoken sentence making headlines here is that of KK Mysorewalla a senior police officer in charge of the worst affected areas, Naroda Patia. When distraught with sorrow and pain Muslim women and children appealed to him for protection from the assault of the Hindu crowds, he uttered that sentence precisely. Modi awarded him with promotion in office. On September 29, 2008 he was in charge of a town with sizable Muslim population, Modasa. A bomb exploded in a crowd of Muslims killing and wounding them. This coincided with a similar attack in Malegaon where 7 people lost life and several hundred were injured. But a professional and matter of fact officer Heman Karkare solved the crime and arrested Hindutva extremists behind it. But Mysorewall did what his chief minister wanted; he dismissed the attack in Modasa as of no significance. The matter in Gujarat was hushed up because the chief minister was not interested in protecting Muslims. The stark contrast between Mysorewalla and Karkare crystallizes the significance of not only the role of the chief minister in Gujarat but also the kind of Hindutva laboratory experiment he allowed to be conducted in full swing under his own tutelage. Human Rights Watch spells it out: “Gujarat one of few remaining Indian states still led by the BJP, has earned the dubious reputation of being a laboratory for the Hindutva agenda. The National Human Rights Commission’s recommendation that the state’s worst incidents of violence be investigated by the CBI reveals the commission’s lack of faith that the state is capable of conducting an impartial investigation into the attacks. The apprehension, widely shared by Indian human rights organizations, stems from the intricate nexus between the BJP and its social wing, the VHP in the state. Since first assuming power in 1995, the state has stacked its inner ranks with VHP and RSS members and others that shared and would actively promote sangh parivar’s policies and programs.” Keshubhai Patel came to power in 1995 and he inducted RSS activists in most of the offices. Then came Suresh Mehta who reversed it. After him came Shankersinh Vaghela as chief minister all too briefly. Into this quicksand of Gujarat Modi assumed power and played what Indian journalists often call the hidden agenda (read, teaching Muslims a lesson and showing them their place that they are at the sufferance of the Hindus who now do not want to tolerate them at all). He opened a floodgate for the Hindutva activists in every department and section of society. This was carefully planned and acted upon. As Hitler used the burning of the German parliament to start his holocaust of the Jews so did Modi.
His party and he in turn made thorough preparation for the genocide as can be seen significantly in the report in The Telegraph: “not a single IPS [Indian Police Service] officer from the minority community is now on a “field posting”…. All eight IPS officers in the state from the minority community… are working in insignificant “support systems” and not engaged in “active policing”…. [Of] the 65 minority community officers of the rank of inspector in Gujarat, only two are handling field jobs. Most minority community officers below the rank of superintendent have been relegated to the CID [Crime Investigation Department]. According to norms, when an IPS officer is promoted, he is given a field posting.”
Discrimination against and segregation and exclusion of Muslims and the multiplicity of cases of crimes in the name of genocide emanate from one force. That is the centrifugal force of the office and position of the Chief Minister Narendra Modi as the chief executive officer of the state of Gujarat. Most of the cases discussed in the book and detailed hereafter reflect him. He it was who tried to cover up the crimes right from the first day and attempted to underrepresent the true extent of the mass atrocities. For example on March 2, 2002 he called for more police personnels and at the same time spoke of lessening of tension provoking Times of India next day lead the story with a punch: “Mode says tension down; statistics tell another story.” On that day the toll stood at 289 dead when in Narodia Patia alone 800 were killed and the over all figure was above 2000. A dozen towns were reeling with violence and crimes against humanity unabated.
Simultaneously there was surreptitiously and unashamedly no effort made to put the blame at the door of VHP, Bajrang Dal and RSS. As Prof Chandra Mohan Ghamari of Jawaharlal Nehru University observed at a seminar that the VHP workers not only believe in communal ideologies against Muslims and Christians, but they practice them. Even Muslim cops in the Gujarat state service were not safe as they arranged for their invidual security.
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http://www.hindustantimes.com/editorial-views-on/ColumnsOthers/Scared-of-the-light/Article1-756974.aspx
“WE HAVE NO ORDERS TO SAVE YOU” State Participation and Complicity in Communal Violence in Gujarat. Human Rights Watch. Vol. 14, No. 3(C) April 2002
Rawat, “Minority hole in Gujarat police force.” http://www.telegraphindia.com/archive/1020327/front_pa.htm#head7
Mode says tension down; statics tell another story. Times of India. March 3, 2002.
If SIMI can bebanned, then why not VHP? Asian Age March 4, 2002.
Muslim IPS officers together arrange for their own security. Asia Age. March 4, 2oo2.





Chapter 4

An ode to Ode of Anand


The village of Ode or Odh(e) in Anand district had 200 houses of Muslims. The Muslims lived in the four neighbouhoods known as Sarewalli Bhagol, Malao Bhagol, Pirawali Bhagol and Ode Nawapura.
On March 1, 2002 there was no Morning Prayer call from the mosques of the village as the Muslims were so much frightened by the reports of murder, mayhem and arson of the previous day that they were shocked stunned and terrified to the extent of being transfixed alive within their dwelling.
But their turn had overreached them. They had premonition of what lay in store for them as a community for the last two months. They had been animated into freezing fear of nervousness as they watched the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh volunteers and activists descending on the village with evil intent. The meeting of these took place in the house of Harishbhai Vallabhbhai Patel and the ominous posters for purging Muslims appeared on the walls in the public places soon afterward. This first name of a Patel in the village is fraught with dread and destruction. He it was who along with Prakash would be involved in crimes against humanity. He would be committing crimes like rape, trapping innocents in a death trap, slaughtering or burning Muslims alive and then would try to induce a woman to accept enormous bribe to withdraw charges against him, including rape. The posters warned the people that Muslim youths had been teasing Hindu girls and there was need for teaching them a lesson. The two inauspicious threatening events were the harbingers of secret meetings in the nearby farms where the Hindus of the village gathered. Although they pretended it was farm related work but the farm hands mostly Muslims got the wind that it was an organized movement planned there that did not bode well for their existence. For two months beginning with the last days of 2001 and the months of January and February 2002 the Muslims had become self conscious of what they were on account of the new deportment of their fellow villagers from the majority community.
These preceding months and the secret meetings in the fams would mean that in this well off village of the NIRs the Hindus had known in advance that genocide would take place and the opportunity was awaited. That opportunity arrived on February 27.
Then the most dreaded first act of announcement came on March 1, 2002 when Harishbhai Vallabhbhai, Vasantbhai Poonambhai Patel and Natubhai Sanabhai Patel and some others warned them that soon there would be a rally of Hindus. What really transpired was the murderous crowd armed with sharp swords, spears, petrol bombs and gas cylinder entering the areas and locking the houses of the Muslims and burning them! They perished in the fire. Two of them were seriously burnt but ran out and went to a house of a Hindu whose key they had. They were farm hands of the Hindu farmers. For three days they hid there. There was no food or water worth name but they survived. One of them was Rehana Yusufbhai Vohra who saw how the houses were burnt and people killed, there were 28 of them of which seven were young girls and two elderly women. She became the eye witness.
There are two versions of how many were killed CJP said in its report of October 2002 that twenty eight had been killed. But Testa Setalvad in her presentation to the court on May 29, 2008 mentions that twenty six were killed in three different places on March 1, and she gives the breakdown as 23+2+1. One more person lost his life as the Hindus burnt him alive the next day, March 2.
Two persons who had come out in the street were attacked. One was Saiyed Ghulam Hussein and a small boy. The old grandfather of the boy could not walk. Chotubhai Ramabhai attacked and killed him by setting him on fire. His grandson saw the gruesome end of his grandfather from where he had sheltered himself.
The survivors identified the attackers who killed the Muslims as Dilipbhai Vallabhbhai Patel, Chotubhai Ranabhai Patel, Prakashbhai Jamnadas Patel and Hemant Kumar Rathod led the attackers. Among the armed they named Harish Vallabh who had a can of petrol, Nantubhai Sana who had a spear, Basant Poonambhai with a can of kerosene and a fire ball, Lalabhai Bakoorbhai with sickles. Some other identified and named were Ghanshayambhai Ambala, Devendrabhai Harishbhai Patel, Prakashbhai Jashbhai Patel, Dilipbhai Sanabhai Patel and Grishbhai Somabhai Patel.
Later on when the police came there and the victims were evacuated to nearby village of Sureli they identified and named Harishbhai Vallabhbhai Patel who brought those who wanted to prevent the evacuation. There were two ex sarpanch or heads of the village council, Ganesh Panwala Odhi and Ashabhai Patel. They also had their vehicles filled with people. The crowd intended to stop the victim survivors and kill them. Godhabhai Patel, Arvindbhai Patel, Anil Kumar,, Niranjan Kumar (Bobo), Arvind Rambhai, Raoji Sarabhai, Rajubhai Santabhai and Chotu Ramabhai Patel were on the road.
Twenty three Hindus were arrested including the above but most of them got bail. Seven were put in prison. One of them was given bail to celebrate Navratri dance of nine nights! Many more were involved in the crimesas it turned out to be the case.
The most remarkable for history of modern India is that the local people many of whom had lived generations together turned on the Muslims in frenzy to eliminate them. They almost succeeded. The bulldozers had replaced the hands and bullock carts of yore to destroy any remnants of households of Muslims there. The Muslims of Ode could never return there. They dare not. It is reminiscent of the partition. Lord Mountebatten and his lady had visited villages in Punjab where the Punjabi Muslims too were thus uprooted. At present the Muslim survivours have taken refuge in Malao Bhagol living subhuman life.
Unlike partition era when a fig leaf of holistic sense of nationalism was still there to hide the unseemly tendencies, things now and especially in Hindu party BJP ruled state like Gujarat have slid into an abyss. There is no hope left for the victims to return to their earlier life, let alone to their position or status, thanks to the kind of new order that Modi ushered in. He dreamed that Muslim should be so taught a lesson that they would never retaliate. Thus far he has succeeded and India has failed.
This bitter inference is based on how the state of Gujarat under the control of Modi has suborned the judiciary. Judge Ms SY Trivedi was constrained to resign in the first week of May 2011. April 28 2011 was the day she had fixed to give her verdict on Ode. But the Modi dispensation did not want to hear what her decision on the case was. She was transferred out of Anand district even before April 28. But the matter was tightly kept in secret. But now that it is in public domain we wait with baited breath how India reacts.
India reacted to the Non Resident Indians (NRI) enthusiastically as it meant huge funds coming into the country. But the acronym is a status symbol, it connotes opulence and affluence. However, its grim side is that the fund that Sonal Shah and VHPin the US had collected and sent to the Delhi address of office of the same saffron group which channeled it to those who conducted the pogroms of Muslims. Most of it ended up in the hands of the marauding crowds who had dry fruit packets, pouches of liquor, packets of money and weapons. They killed the hapless Muslims of Gujarat in 2002. The twenty eight of Ode were done to death with wherewithal supplied by the NRI. Ode of Anand district was famed as an “NIR village.” Most of the Hindus in the village known as Patels were quite rich and had many members of their families in the US. Even the superrich abroad shared the juggernaut of Hindutva back home. The diaspora is more rabid and deadly resourceful. As many as 18 NIR persons accused of the genocide in Ode are from the Patel community and were given anticipatory bail. This would amount to total freedom to them not only to live freely after committing heinous crimes of genocide but work to influence the prosecution process when it is in hearing stage. They live at the surplus wealth they have while the condition of the survivours degenerates to inhuman level of misery and wretchedness. Twenty four NIRs are absconding and regularly travelling to the US and other foreign countries after committing rapes and murders and arson. This is another dimension of genocide that the US is not aware of. Samantha Power has written books on genocides and was critical of the US which according to her supported genocides in the world and would go to attent UNO meetings the next day. Barack Obama removed her from the advisory post she occupied in the days of his campaign for the election of the president of the US. Sonal Shah was also appointed by him. She and her father have collected huge amounts of money and sent to the VHP office in Delhi. It was this fund that supported the Charra community in their murderous working of raping, killing and burning Muslims. The tribals and dalits also were on the payroll of the VHP during the genocide. Though Modi was denied visa to visit the US the twenty four absconders from the NRI village of Ode have had no such hurdles. Therefore investigation has to be much broader and investigators must throw their nets much wider to catch those who are ensconced in the US. This also calls for an international investigation of the cimes against humanity like the genocide in Gujarat.
The remittance that the NRI send home played havoc in subverting justice. As it was an NRI village there was high premium on cover up. For example the gruesome murder of Ghulam Hussein Saiyad was not deliberately recorded. Four years the victim survivours repeatedly made appeal to the police to lodge an FIR that it was a murder case. Police inspecter KR Bhuwa of Khambolaj police station had destroyed all the evidence before the remains of Saiyad was buried. This is done to show that it was not murder. It was done so as the real killer was an influenctial person and the inspector wanted to hide his identity. How much money must have changed hands in this so called NRI village of Modi’s Gujarat? Nay, such was the depravity of the policeand the murderers that they got wrongly accused persons into jail. This is a crime under sections 120-B r/w 143, 147, 148, 149, 302, 376 (2) (e) and (g), 201, 217 and 218. This is just a tip of the iceberg, the case of Mohammad Ghulam Rasool. The police maintained that there were no missing persons from the village of Ode but then the survivors lodged such a complaint on March 14, 2002. Why did DySP Bavang Zamir submit Missing Persons Report? Why did not the authorities conduct FSLR/DNA test and hand over the remains, bones of the dead, to the grieved families? Anwarmiya Akbarmiya Malek has submitted details of the preplanning of the genocide in Ode. Why has not this been made known to the public if there was nothing to hide in the so called ‘spontaneous’ reaction of the so called ‘outraged people’?
In a Rejoinder Affidavit of Teesta Setalvad, Citizens for Justice and Peace she “points out that substantive allegations made by eyewitnesses and victim survivors on affidavit are not effectively countered including those related to direct state complicity and the fact that names of influential persons were deliberately left out as accused by the police. Allegations of sexual violence and rape have also been deliberately obscured by the police according to eyewitnesses.”
Influenctial person who killed Ghulam Rasool had prevented FIR being registered till well into 2008. How long will justice have to wait in such a case in Modi’s Gujarat where the CM has military like ability to get things done well in time like the setting up Nano plant for Tata and producing the car whereas the poor Rasool’s bereaved relatives had to struggle so much to lodge a complaint? Zakia Jafri’s is not an exceptional case, she is one of many who have been deprived of the ray of hope that justice would ever be done to the families of the killed and their houses and sources of income destroyed. On the top of it they have to face stiff boycott and constant threat from fellow Indians of another faith. In all these cases does not police complicity stare into the faces of Modi and his supporters and the others who look only at the development of the state sans justice and morality? The national media wants only the sensational events managed by mega dollar expenditure in Indian currency like the fanfare of the three day fast which of course obscures the darker sides of the genocide.
The state administration is shrewdly calculative of what to release and when. It has admitted the survivors complaint and says that they are having FSL and DNA test done on the dead but do not want to reveal what the reports of the tests say. This deliberate hiding of the facts of the report is maliciously done in a carefully wrought strategy to cover up and allow the time to lapse. There is of course collusion between the politicians at the top, then their administrative staff in the government departments, the police and others including the Fire Brigade. A well meaning government would have seen to it that all the recordings of administration were objectively done and maintained and the registeration of the crimes were based on facts and not doctored as they are till today. Failure on such a massive scale warrants that the case now after more than nine years be internationally probed to unearth the full extent of the enormity of the crimes. Another spell of BJP rule at the centre and continuation of Modi would see in few years that nothing would come out of the horrible crimes committed during the genocide. The right wing Hindutva has a penchant for rewriting history and 2002 is now a matter of history.
The remains of Ghulam Rasool were found on the heap of vehicles burnt near the house of Akbar Miyan Malek while Rehana who saw the event states that his remains were found at Malao Bhagol. It is irony of ironies that despite all these discrepancies in the registration and test of the remains of Ghulam Rasool he is still shown as a missing person. How mighty must the influential unnamed killer be! How dear is the dollar in the NRI village which Gujarat needs and the CM flounts and taunts the centre and other states to earn in rivalry to the state of Gujarat! Sikandarmiya Usmanmiya Malek and Guddi Munni Sikander Miyan are also shown as missing when it is known to the survivours that they were killed.
The public prosector of Ode in Anand District is PS Dhora who is an inveterate RSS member and there is no hiding the truth that he is committed to the ideology of the extremists who do not want Muslims in India. In her presentation Teesta Setalvad says what is worse than criminal conspiracy and collusion is “The officers of the nvestigating agency surreptitiously removed from the array of accused all offenders who held official or political positions of influence and whose being im-plicated would reveal the deep rooted and wide spread involvement of State’s political and executive machinery as prime movers of the riots.” The world must wait and make a point to see that the political leaders and the executive officers of the state are brought to book. It would be startling to know what would come out when “In the course of investigation and even after the filing of charge sheets, the police sedulously avoided arresting persons who were members of the political party or of a private army owing allegiance to that political party which held the reins of government in the State. So much so, that the charge sheets conveniently failed to mention those of such persons whose names and roles in the commission of the offences figured in the statements of witnesses recorded under Section 161Cr.PC.” Therefore it would be astounding to know the “private army” that really exists in India which has taken on the Muslims on a mission to exterminate them. The Muslims and with them all just and fair minded Hindus now have a duty to see that the private army is exposed and prosecuted and not only banned but strictly dealt with. Snipping in the bud may save India from a far off civil war to which such private armies would lead. India has much greater stake in Gujarat than has Gujarat in India. Those who flount “my six crores Gujarati” have insidious foreboding for the national integrity and togetherness of its people.
Next there are six Patels from Ode directly involved in the crimes that have fled the country, red corner notices against the absconders is not enough. The Indian government should ask the US and European countries to extradite them. Why should the government in Delhi tarry full ten years after the genocide? Ode is a Non Resident Indian village which has amassed wealth from remittance from abroad with which all the 41 accused bought bail right in 2002. Nay they have also seen that the Muslim survivours do not dare to return to claim anything nor resume life there. What more were the central and the state governments waiting for to bring the guilty to book?

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Crime Against Humanity, an inquiry into the carnage of Gujarat

Tabular Presentation by Teesta Setalvad, Secretary Citizens for Justice and Peace before the Special Investigation Team (SIT) appointed by the Hon’ble Supreme Court through its Order dated 26.3.2008 following Part I, II and III Statements submitted at Gandhinagar on May 9, 2008 Date of Tabular Presentation May 29, 2008.
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Chapter 5
9 special cases of genocide
Genocide is what it is but there are ten instances where the complicit Narendra Modi government played havoc with the investigation agencies and judicial system. On one score Chief Minister can be indicted in the court of law or through a UNO inquiry by means of the optional protocol, is that despite the Godhra collector’s official statement that it was a fire accident in which 58 people were burnt alive in S6 coach of the Sabarmati Express, Modi without any proof and justification by finding of any judicially constituted constitutional body of inquiry put the blame on the Muslims and the ISI. He was also directly responsible to take the dead bodies to Ahmadabad from Godhra despite the advice to the contrary by the collector. It is a universally acknowledged fact that Chief Minister suborned and subverted the judicial system. That too, he did it with impunity by cocking a snook at the world opinion. He is the one CM who has ever been ready to confront even the Supreme Court by letting his advocates and attorneys to play tit for tat game with the apex court. He can gravitate to himself his whole party BJP during his three day Sadhbhana or farce fasting and leave the nation agog at his awesome power. But will he be allowed to pull the apex court out of its orbit of judicial process? The antics of his government give almost that impression. He had proudly opened the first police university in India while his most senior police officers like PC Pande and a host of others behaved most criminally and have been given promotion and post retirement largess while the upright and righteous and men of integrity in the uniform have been demoted, harassed, charge sheeted, dismissed and by passed in promotion! At glance are the ten cases which show it beyond doubt.
The cases show what the activists of International Initiative for Justice found: “Control over State power has been an important part of the growth and the actualization of the Hindutva agenda.” Modi and those who have fascist tendency like his fellow Hindutva leaders share this trend in the fullest sense of the terms. As he assumed absolute power by seizing the government he could say what no one would dare: "Hindus of Gujarat, unite and defeat the Mussalmaan Mullahs and all their four wives! Hindus of Gujarat, be courageous, and dare to fight, be brave, and defy decency and humanity; advance wave upon wave like Ravan's rakshasas. Then the whole Gujarat will belong to Hindus. Mussalmaans of all kinds shall be destroyed."
"The richest source of power to wage war lies in the masses of Hindus. It is mainly because of the submissive state of the Hindus that Mussalmaans dare to bully us. When this defect is remedied, then the Mullah aggressor, like a mad bull crashing into a ring of flames, will be surrounded by hundreds of millions of our people standing upright, the mere sound of their voices will strike terror into him, and the Mullah will be burned to death."
Modi also speaks of holy war: “Rallying millions upon millions of people round my government and expanding our holy war, we shall wipe out all the pseudo-secularists and take over the whole of India."
Modi had already conducted the genocide and yet his penchant for it resurfaces in his interview to Saamna on September 29, 2004: "The secularists are bullying us in such a way that we will have to deal with them seriously. Not only must we have a powerful, regular and a more violent Bajrang Dal, (italics added to wonder at whether this is the private army or militia of the Hindutva?) we must also organize contingents of the ladies-only Durga Vahini on a big scale. This will make it difficult for the secularists to move a single inch in our Gujarat in case of an anti-Mussalmaan genocide (italics added to go sub rosa to know that it is the guilt that speaks here like that of Lady Macbeth), an event which is not very far( italics to underline that this is ipso facto justification of what he had already done)."
Thus the guilty mukhota or mask of Modi shows a chink in the amour. He had already accomplished one set objective of the Hindutva ideology of exterminating the Muslims. Though he could not wipe out all but about 3000 were slaughtered. This comes out in his interview when he talks of an imminent genocide; his tongue in cheek statement reveals the previous one, of 2002.
The nine cases are Gulberg Society, Ode, Sardarpura, Narodao Gaon, Naroda Patya, Baranpura, Machipith, Tarsali, Pandarwada and Raghavapura. At no time did the Supreme Court pull up Modi for the abdication of duty when the genocide of Muslims started nor did it do so when his involvement became crystal clear. This is not to deny the technical loopholes in the system but to focus on the utter lawlessness let loose by the chief minister. Why is he allowed to grow into the man beyond and above the law? What Modi speaks gives enough hints of conspiracy and preparedness for genocide:
"Without preparedness, a communal riot is not a real pogrom and there can be no final solution either. Having grasped this point, it is good to remember that while making a list of Mians and their Begums in their across-the-'border' Pakistani mohallas, (italics added to show the ghettos of Muslims dubbed as enemy country by the chief minister who has moral duty to care for the dwellers there as legitimate citizens of this country) care must be taken to accomplish the task without attracting much notice. The dogs must not be warned of their terrible ends." The statement carries two of the most recurrent themes of Hindutva ideology. One is that the Muslims living in their ghettos are dubbed as living in what is often called mini Pakistan, and ‘border’ refers to the line that divides the houses of Muslims from those of Hindus as for example the ghetto of Ahmadabad called Juhapura. The second is that Modi calls Muslims ‘dogs’. He reminds one of Bal Thackeray who claims that it was Mahrashtra which began first what Gujarat followed in 2002. This Thackeray stated during the three day fast of Modi who he feared would repent to get votes of Muslims or to play a much larger national level politics abandoning hard line Hindutva. Thackeray would call Muslims circumcised dogs or ‘landyas.’ Both these Hindutva leaders use such words in reflex to the perceived and biased view of the Muslims.
Thus the first enemy territory in the words of Modi “Pakistan” was Gulber Society.
(1) Gulberg Society case being the most gory is also the most conspicuous when the commissioner of police in Ahmadabad refused to accept FIR that Zakia Jafri wanted to lodge against Modi and 61 others including ministers and leaders. Even the High Court of Gujarat threw her appeal out. This was an occasion when the highest court of appeal in the country should have taken suo motto notice of it and issued orders regarding it. At the top of it the apex court has sent back the case to the trial court at that! The need for speedy justice would have required otherwise. This is nothing but justice delayed.
First and foremost the chief minister is sworn to uphold law and order and protect the citizens of the state by all the means available to him. But Modi is different cattle of fish. As the senior lawyer of SC Shanti Bhushan has said Modi is “the most communal person.” Why have the acts of the Constitution of India which declare India as secular country been allowed to be overturned by him? This he did through his command and instructions.
(2) Sardarpura is a village in Mehsana district. There were about a hundred houses of Muslims. There was no electricity in their area for the last month or so. But on March 1, 2002 electricity was restored and a connection was given at a house where 33 Muslim women and children had taken refuge. There was already violence and arson the previous day. A meeting for peace was held but the members of the rich land owning Patel community boycotted it. The sarpanch was also a Patel and he went away from the meeting saying that he would get the members of his community to attend the meeting. Neither he nor his community members came. Their boycott shows that they had hatched a plot to take revenge for Godhra train burning. Two sub inspectors of police with two police vans and police men were stationed there. They did not stop the Hindus extremist from attacking Muslims on February 28. But the next day at night they left the area on the pretext that they wanted to stop violence against Muslims in an outlying area on the other side. They submitted false information to the Superintendant of Police under whose jurisdiction they were. They told him that the situation was calm and there was no trouble. Then on March 1, the Hindus extremists tied a live wire on a rod and threw it into a room packed with 33 Muslims. Twenty nine were instantly electrocuted while two children survived miraculously. Some Muslims who saw the operation were petrified. One of them hid in an open grave in the graveyard and survived to tell the gory tale of massacre engineered by ingenuity and diabolic conspiracy.
In Sardarpura case the court has to see into what the public prosecutor Bharat Bhatt of VHP in Sabarkantha District had admitted in the Sting operation that an IPC 436 matter was settled by buying witnesses for Rs. 6,50,000/-. Where from could such huge amount of money come? Another objectionable point is that Dilip Trivedi was head of a panel of 12 prosecutors and was the state general secretary of VHP. He did not raise any objection when the 46 accused were freed on bail and some of them subsequently attacked a mosque the very next day of release. How could he be appointed public prosecutor in both the cases. Is this not subversion of justice. A total of 33 Muslims had lost life on February 28th. Well known accused in the case are shown as absconding on paper while they roam freely there. In this case the commissioner of police PC Pande and other high ranking officers in the administration should also be questioned along with IK Jadega and Ashok Bhatt the two ministers who sat in the police control room and obstructed help to the victims. Haresh Bhatt was MLA from Godhra who imported swords and other weapons from Punjab. He also visited Sardarpura and hatched a conspiracy to kill Muslim. The court has to examine all aspects of these serious accusations including the involvement of the politically powerful persons in hatching the conspiracy at Sardarpua.
The heart of the matter so far as the chief minister is concerned is that he has awarded police inspectors who aided and abetted murder and arson. Why has he not taken any firm action against the people who got the electricity restored precisely to kill Muslims in the most ingenious manner? Why have the higher police officers failed to penalize the two police inspectors who fed false and misleading information?
Even more important is the fact that the violence is the result of Modi foisting upon what was an accident, the falsehood that Muslim terrorists in league with ISI have carried out the attack on Sabarmati express. What proof had he on the day it happened? Gujarat is notorious for false cases registered against Muslims who have languished five to eight years in jail and then have been acquitted. Fabrication of evidence is also very much in vogue. Encounter killings of ‘terrorists’ in the name of saving Modi from them have turned out to be cases of racketeering in which his minister and most trusted Amit Shah collected huge amounts of money. Shah alone could not have hoarded the wealth for himself! Where has all the money gone? Of course, a part went to Swami Aseemanand who organized bombing of Muslims in Malegaon, Hyderbad, Ajmer, Samjhauta Express, and right in Modasa of Gujarat and so on. Another part also went in greasing the palms of lawyers and police officers who were active in covering up the genocide. Modi had given 10 lakh rupees to the lawyers of Malika Sarabhai who was fighting one of the worst cases of the genocide, Naroda Patia. All these ensued because Modi personally changed the accident version of the burning of train compartment into a terrorist attack of Muslims. Thus followed the revenge on Muslims and it was he who instructed the police to let the Hindus take maximum revenge upon them unhindered. This is the worst abdication of state responsibility. One who is sworn into office to up hold law and protect the life of all the citizens has let the majority kill the minority Muslims at will because no action would be taken against the killers and arsonists.
The collector of Godhra had also advised him not to take the dead bodies to Ahmadabad for it would incite violence against Muslims. But Modi let VHP leader Dr Jaideep Patel take the bodies to the capital city and exacerbated the situation. It was VHP that had given call for bandh or strike on February 28th that started the genocide. The police had 24 hours at disposal before the bandh started and had they wanted to prevent untoward incident as they should and are duty bound to, they could have averted the genocide. But this time the CM himself had chosen the agenda and co-opted the police and government administration in it. In the case of Sardarpura the conspiracy and preplanning is bared. This could not be spontaneous reaction of retaliation but deep rooted conspiracy and preparedness. The Patels boycotted the meeting on 28th and the electrocution was perpetrated full twenty eight hours later. The two sub inspectors carried out the instructions of no other than Modi.
Sardarpura is also interesting case study that there was no electricity in the area where Muslims lived. The neglect of such ghettos of Muslims was already there even before the genocide. Years afterward Schchar commission would recommend 15 percent grants to develop such backward areas where the minorities especially Muslims live but Modi would not utilize the grants and return the unused fund to the central government. The reason is not far to discover.
On November 9, 2011 the trial court convicted 33 accused and senenced them to life imprisonment, 11 accused were set free for lack of evidence and 42 were given the benefit of doubt. The court dropped the conspiracy charges. This is the most ominous part of the judgment because the conspiracy was hatched at the highest level in which the chief minister had asked the police to let the Hindus take revenge upon the Muslims which the extremists of Bajrang Dal, VHP and RSS did. Of course all the Hindus cannot be dubbed as violent and riotous. Only those who were under the spell of Hindutva ideology and were used by Bajrang Dala and other extremist or organizations perpetrated mass atrocities. In the same way there was conspiracy because the electricity was restarted with the common design to electrocute the 33 Muslims of which 22 were women. Meetings were also held in the aftermath of Godhra to the same effect. Equally serious to note is the fact that this is a judgment on the group in the crowd and therefore there is loophole here for their getting acquittal in the high court or the apex court when the case goes there. As to the optimism of RB Sreekumar and the chairman of SIT Dr RK Raghvan that such a large number as 31have been stenced to life imprisonment for the first time and this did not happen even in Bhagalpur there is a ctach here. Bhagalpur riot was not hatched by the government in Bhiar. The Hindu extremists who had taken part in the riot there were not in as mammth a number with free reign of power as in Sardarpura of any other massacre at the time. The police were not paralysed by the order of the chief minister of Bihar, either. There was no blatant cover up from day one to the last hearing of the court and conviction.
(3) Baranpura is a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Vadodra. Fifteen percent of the people were of Muslim community. Their houses were looted and burnt on 28th and 1st but full seven days later on March 8th when the survivors returned to the neighbourhood they found that their houses were still smoldering and smoke coming out. This shows how the police and the administration took no interest in saving the life and property of Muslims. This is also an instance of the instruction of the chief minister that the life and property of the Muslims must not be saved. Where had the firefighters and their engines gone for a whole week? Had this not been the case of instructions given to them, naturally the police were duty bound to prevent the fire and put it out with the help of the firefighters in such a big town. The glaring criminal acts of omission were at the instance of Modi and hence he is guilty.
(4) Machchipith is in Vaododra which did not see the scale of revenge as Ahmadabad did. But it is a show piece of police brutality at its worst. Though only two hours away from Godhra, violence did not erupt in the same intensity here as it happened elsewhere. Stabbing incidents were there. Pamphlet calling for revenge and boycott of Muslims distributed beforehand was there and yet there was not the same kind of violence as in other places. Thus the police stepped in because they were used by the state authorities to kill the Muslims. Modi was very clear and firm about it as he remarked: "The communal riot is a war of the Hindus; it can be successfully waged only after enlisting the support of the police force and relying on them to wage it." (While quoting this I still cannot believe my eyes that I read aright such diabolic thoughts. The source however is listed below in which the saffron book is credited to have a preface penned by, guess who? No other than the arch demagogue of Hindutva and guilty of much of the bloodshed in the early 1990s. Of course, he is the Pakistani refugee who chose to migrate because he was himself blamed in his ‘country’, Pakistan, of attempting to blow up Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Lal Krsihnchand Advani.)
Machchipith till 13th March had not seen much of violence. Therefore rumour did what was intended by the perpetrators. This is the most commonly used tactics of RSS. They spread the rumour of Muslims attacking the temple builder cadets known as rambhaktas. Generally the police have duty to scotch rumour at the outset but this did not happen in the case of Machchipith.
In hiding the truth of Sardarpura a huge amount of the public’s tax money was spent’ Sardarpura 2. Bharat Bhatt VHP (Public Prosecutor) Sabarkantha District. He admits in the Sting operation of Tehelka that an IPC 436 matter settled by buying witnesses for Rs. 6,50,000/-

(5))Naroda Patia and Naroda Gaon saw virtual hell on earth as far as the mass casualties is concerned, nearly 800 hundred killed at one place. The attack began at 9 am on February 28. It was so huge that Modi took time to visit this place and his police commissioner ordered that the bodies should be scattered all over the city to make it less barbarous. Quintesstially it was awe and stun operation of the most dreaded terrorists, the khaki chaddi clad, with saffron vest, black bandanna around head. This is the uniform of the RSS. If needed proof in an international court this is the most convinving proof because how come such a big crowd of 5,000 to 10, 000 killer volunteers suddenly appear on the scene and systematically begin the genocide. The number, the uniform, the motive and the action have not been noted by any court judge, the government, and the investigation agencies! It is quite damning. What is equally damning and no less horrifying is that the health minister Maya Kodnani was not only leading but egging on the mobs of murderers to rape and kill Muslim women.
As the attack on Muslims began, the fanatic Hindu mobs started mixing a white chemical in the petrol and diesel and then setting people of the minority community on fire as well as starting burnig their houses. Then they began destroying the Noorani mosque. At first the Muslims of the area tried to prevent the destruction of their mosque and started pelting the mobs but the police fired at the Muslims and killed several of them. Thus they cleared the scene for the mobs to continue and finish the destruction of the mosque which they did with the help of the gas cylinders aplenty with them.
In the initial state four persons lost life in the police firing and the entire families of Shabir Ahmed Khushid Ahmed and Mehmood Ahmed Khushid Ahmed were burnt alive. This happened during the attacks on two sections of Naroda Hussain Nagar and Jawaharlal Nagar. One of the earliest casualties was a youth of Tamil origin who was a paraplegic. The crowd killed him and later put his body in the paan kiosk and set him on fire. The noise and murder rose in a crescendo and the climax came in the evening when they started raping women and burning them alive. When women and children ran to the SRP camp and pleaded the notorious policeofficer KK Mysorewalla, his reply froze them and made them speech less as he said “Nahi, aaj to upar se order aaya ke aaj tumhari jaan bachane ki nahi hai.” (“No, today we have orders from above that you are not to be saved.”) This stone hearted reply became the title of a book of Human Rights Watch. The concerned citizens’ tribunal has recorded how one Mohammad Hussain was killed. He was fleeing with his family. His wife and two children had crossed the road while he was trailing them with his youngst baby in hand. She was just six months old. Just then the police shot him through his head. When his wife tried to reach to him the police started beating her and her children mercilessly with the butts of thei guns. Some Muslims took courage to drag Hussain away but the Hindu mob attacked and poured petrol and thrust rubber tires around him and set him on fire. Dum with sorrow his wife just watched him perish. Her four year old son and another child of 2 years and half watched their father die. The six year old daughter was hit by rod. The wife also witnessed how young girls were chased and raped and burnt alive and children killed with swords.
Another woman ran to save life but was denied succor. She was so thirsty that she pleaded with Hindu women for water which they refused. Then she went to the police point and asked for water. The police officer told her that anyway she was going to die what would she need water for. “Yeh tumhara akhri din hai, vaise bhi tum marne wale ho” (“This is the last day of your life, you’re going to die anyway”).
Naroda Patia also saw the gruesome incident ascribed to Babu Bajrangi who tore open the stomach of Kauser Bano and cut out her foetus and burnt it and the mother alive. Two more women had had the same traumatic shock and end of their life along with their unborn. Kauser’s 76 year old father saw all this and also the killing of seven membersof the rest of the family.
This most brutal killing field saw horror of slaughter for full seventeen and half hours before Sharif Khan of Shah Alam camp was allowed to rescue the survivours. It was planned and coordinated work. Bhavani Singh Chhara (Rathod) was the devil from hell in this genocide, “a problem from hell”, as he disrobed most of the girls and women and paraded them naked before raping them and then setting them on fire. A gas cylinder agency owner Bipin Sindhi had a stock of 400-500 cylinders which he allowed the mobs to use in the attack. Jaideep Patel only next o Praveen Togadia in rank in the VHP was moving in his car and cheering the crowds and urging them to continue the murder and burning.
(6)Panderwada and Mora saw the common design. The electric supply was cut off on March 1 and the phone connection the previous day by the groups of Patel, Panchal and Adivasi communities. As discussed in chapter 24 the Patels betrayed their own farm sevants (like Yasinbhai) and the innocents walked into the trap with a real sense of apprehension that their time was up. Theirs was like the agonized wait in the death row cell with the sky abov and the earth below and yet their spaced narrowed and movement calculated and determined to a few barn yards. In such a skimpy surrounding 14 members of a single family saw the end of their life and a father 8 of his children. Even if in the words of Shakespeare’s King Lear the rotundity of the earth were to be struck flat they could not have run anywhere as the Patels had shut the doors and stacked heavy stones against them. This it was that reveals the planning. Mahender Vakil and Jaswant Patel wrote into the annals of history their names in blood.
Noorunissa (12) narrated: “We were in the farm when lots of people came shouting and started attacking us. My chacha (uncle) fell down and some men placed a sword on my father’s neck. We were trying to run up the hill to save our lives. Allah saved us. I remember seeing a woman crying because her baby was thirsty. I did not see them after that. My mother was with me and so was my khala (aunt). My father is alive but my uncle was killed in front of us. I was begging everybody, ‘Please don’t kill my father, please don’t kill my mother!’
Yasinbhai was like all others employed by the Patels to work on their farms. He was beheaded before his wife and three children two small daughters Anisa (7), Nilofer (6) and a son Waris (5). Next in line was his wife Akeela whom they tried to rape. In the commotion they made attempt to rape her and then threw her shocked and traumatized on top of her dead husband. Then they turned to her three children whom they flung in the gutter. When she recovered she collected her children and ran to a safe distance and then walked to the relief camp. Naturally these farm hands identified their masters and others as killers and rapists: Pramilal, Jaswant Manilal Patel, Arvind Patel, Mansukh Bhai Chamunda and Sanjay, the VHP district president (accused identified as the worst torturer and murderer). For days they could not reconcile to the fact that their own masters and employers had so abhominably betrayed them. There is a subplot of this tragedy. Far from Panderwada Mansukhbai Chamunda had employed the huband of a victim for fifteen yeas in Rajkot but had not paid any wage to him.
(7)Raghaupura is a village in Vadodra which falls in a pattern and a class of its own like the district town in a different kind of torture. In the late night of March 1 in this area which has almost equal number of Muslim and Hindu houses, the attack began in which 36 houses of Muslims out of 41 were destroyed. A mosque and adjacent two houses of it were also razed to earth. Copies of the Koran were also burnt to ashes with the same white powder used in all other places in Gujarat. The houses were owned by well off farmers. This massive loss was aimed at crippling them economically and erasing them from the surface of the earth there. It has made them think of migrating to another place. That it was like all others attacks is beyond doubt as there was a meeting in a nearby village called by Subhashbhai Mafatbhai Chota, a local Bajrang Dal leader. Some from Raghaupura also attended the meeting. Among them were two who told Mubarak bhai on return that plan was made to destroy the Muslim houses. The ominous news was truly the harbinger of their destruction even when the worried Muslims approached the police officer PSI Vadalia from Varnama. He assured them that they need not fear, “Don’t worry we are here.” Instead of protecting the Muslims the two constables and the police inspector turned into accomplices of the mob and joined them “Miya ne kapo!” (“Kill the Muslims!”; “Miya ne jalao” (“Torch the Muslims!”); “Unki auraton ki ijjat luto” (“Rape their women!”). They could neither kill nor rape as the Muslims had already evacuated their families. Some men who lingered to safeguard their houses also fled when they saw the mobs approaching the village. Only Mubarak was left behind to see the destruction of houses after systematic looting. The police also participated and helped themselves with the rich items. After several hourse of calling the fire brigade when the engines came they refused to put out the fire. The police inspector retorted Mubarak that if Muslims had not burnt the train they would not have burnt the Muslim houses. The list of the accused is headed by the Bajrang Dal leader Subhashbhai Mafatbhai Chota; Rabhipura village sarpanch, Deepabhai Patel; Raghovpura sarpanch, Shantilal Patel; Natwarbhai Naranbhai Patel, Mahendrabhai Patel, Bipinbhai Bhailalbhai Patel, Amitbhai Jashbhai Patel, Motibhai Gordhanbhai Patel, sarpanch of Megakui, Satishbhai Thakor, his brother Chandresh Thakor .
Those names were given by Mubarak and other Muslims who saw and identified the crowd, as many as they could. The police inspector refused to lodge a complaint by the Muslims because of the names in writing. The victims also named the three police men. The role of the inspector clearly confirms that the order of the chief minister had sunk into the minds of the cops. They were on order not to save Muslims and allow the extremist Hindus. That is exactly what they did.
(8)Tarsali are in the south east of Vadodra city is made up of neighbor hoods of Muslims. One such is the Noor Park where fruit and vegetable vendors live. The most crucial part of the common design and conspiracy hatched against the Muslims is that in the end of the first month of 2002 a meeting was held here. VHP secretary Praveen Togadia addressed the meeting at the ITI grounds and called for a total boycott of the Muslims. Not even a drop of water should the people give to them. The citizens’ tribunal claims that it has record of it. It would be surely damning evidence against one of the most formidable and vocal enemies of Muslims and that ranks him along with Modi and Bal Thackeray and also the experts in sophistry in the rank and file of the RSS.
(9)Tarsali area includes other parts as well such as Gotri village. The Hindutva supported marauding group pelted stones at Nisar Hussein Liaqat Hussein and his son and then enmeshed them with rubber tires and burnt them alive. They also burnt mosques and vehicles of the minority community. There lived a Gandhian Jagdishbhai Shah in the Vinoba Bhave Ashram who gave witness against the looters and killers which included: Narendrasinh Solanki (BJP, taluka panchayat member), Sunil Patel (BJP), along with Sunil Bhoieto, Ajit Kalia (of Vishal Nagar), Sudhir Meldi, Pradip aka Padiyo, Kallo Jaiswal, Bhupendra, Ravi, Dharmendra, Kanchia, Manish Gurkh

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Threatened Existence 2003.
Hindutva's Little Saffron Book ? (content from a Hindutva run site)
http://hindumuslimindia.blogspot.com/
Tabular Presentation by Teesta Setalvad, Secretary Citizens for Justice and Peace
before the Special Investigation Team (SIT) appointed by the Hon’ble Supreme
Court through its Order dated 26.3.2008 following Part I, II and III Statements
submitted at Gandhinagar on May 9, 2008
http://communalism.blogspot.com/2009/04/hindutvas-little-saffron-book-content.html
April 27, 2009


















Chapter 6

Scuttling judiciary
Chief Minster Narendra Modi of Gujarat fashioned everything since he contested election early in 2002. This includes manufacturing rumour for consumption by the people like saying that Ahsan Jafri had used his gun on the crowd. A man who campaigned against him for February 23 elections was the former Member of Parliament, Ahsan Jafri. He correctly feared and warned the people of the dangerous ideology of Hindutva that the RSS pracharak Modi had espoused and what it spelled for the state. Modi’s anger saw no limit as he was filled with hubris at the way the miyan (Muslim) was trying to oppose his election on February 23, 2002 and also showing pluck to consider himself equal to anyone howsoever high or low as a citizen of the country! Since then Modi took such a course of action as the head of the government after being sworn into power that he proved himself a desi Slobodan Milosevic of the Indian state of Gujarat bent on denying Muslims that they were equal to other fellow Indians. He and many others like him in the hardcore communal minded feel that the Muslims need to be taught a lesson which would show them their place.
There was a grand design hatched out and executed as Hindutva laboratory experiment. It was so systematically carried out that its very cunningness showed how well planned and diabolically and ruthlessly practiced it would be. It would be what many feared and most did not articulate in words and their deafening silence proved to be: genocide of Muslims.
The burning of the compartments of the Sabarmati express train was used to initiate that most violently inhuman course in the history of the state, nay, of India, that it would bring shame to the country but not to the man who shrewdly worked behind the scene and controlled and factored everything into the grand design. In the meeting of February 27 late evening it was enough that he told his police and administration that the Hindus would get free hand in the murder and mayhem of Muslims for three days so that the history of the state of balancing Hindus and Muslims evenly in a political correctness of sorts would end forever in favour of the Hindus.
When the pogroms started, Modi was in contact with VHP chief Jaideep Patel and the fire brand minister in charge of children and women affairs, Maya Kodnani. His office phone record shows this. He also had talks with the Police Commissioner PC Pande as 15 phone calls made from his office establish it. As the phone records have been deliberately destroyed despite the gravity of the crimes committed during the pogroms it is high time that a grand jury should look into the role that such people that surrounded Modi as PC Pande, DGP K Chakravarti,, JCP MK Tandon, DCP PB Bondia, chief secretary Subha Rao, health minister Ashok Bhatt (deceased), urban development minister IK Jadejia, minister of state for home Govardhan Jhadafiya have played. It is also relevant to go into the CD that IPS officer Rahul Sharma had submitted.
Modi had his administration yoked to one overwhelming task of not only conducting the pogroms of Muslims but also tackling and fixing the far reaching effect. After the arrest of Amit Shah minister of state for Home, it was not only his additional advocate general Tushar Mehta who was operating behind the scene but even an otherwise independent minded Ram Jethmalani offered his services in the juggernaut. It was he who settled the 89 page petition of Amit Shah where he ascribes motives to the two judges. The SC order of transferring the Sohrabuddin case to CBI dated January 12, 2010 had rubbed them on the wrong side. The petition says, “the order (is) a product of a tripartite understanding and arrangement to the effect that the CBI investigation would be ordered by Hon’ble Mr Justice Tarun Chatterjee (the lead judge who issued the January 12 order) as desired by the Central Government, the Central government will provide the Hon’ble Justice a post-retirement assignment, and the CBI will refrain from chargesheeting the Hon’ble Justice in the PF scam case.”
And, Justice Aftab “does not know whether the fact of the aforesaid pending and ongoing CBI investigation (on PF scam) against his brother Judge was known to Hon’ble Mr Justice Aftab Alam. He too should have offered to recuse if he did know.”
It seems that the basic strategy to cover up the genocide was to send probe reports of Special Investigation Team to the state additional Advocate General Tushar Mehata. It was under secretary (home) Vijay Badekha who would forward the reports to Mehta. Mehta would find out in real time the vulnerable weak aspects of an accused in the atrocity committed on the Muslims. He would then write to Gurumurthy Swaminathan, the RSS ideologue. Gurumurthy in turn would gather crucial points to find out chink in the armour of the prosecution. So in the most developed state of the country the government exchequer was to pay an additional advocate general to prepare in advance to defend an accused that he should be in reality prosecuting. As the suborning of the judicial system in the state cannot come about at such higher echelon of the government without the nod of the chief executive officer of the state, the chief minister himself, at the wheel of the ship steering the course of the state and his active connivance, is amazing. If he had an iota of a sense of justice and responsibility he should have dismissed Mehta and ordered recovery of the salary drawn during the period the errant additional advocate general had infringed his constitutional duties.
Modi’s silence over this even after Sanjiv Bhatt and Tehelka brought it out in the public shows that he should be held responsible for the genocide and the forethought and calculated fall out of the cover up. But his officers also cannot escape the responsibility for failing to not obey orders which were unlawful, unconstitutional and even criminal. Further those who carried his orders out using the administrative machinery will be guilty violating the chain of command responsibility. The Nuremberg principles that all these guilty are individually responsible for the crimes of genocide, that, national laws of the land do not prevent criminal responsibility, that, head of the state or government and other government officials involved in genocide are not immune from prosecution, and, that, even being an accomplice to the crimes is enough to constitute an international crime clearly show the need to prosecute the guilty. Vajpayee government had rushed the chair person of the National Human Rights Commission, justice Verma and attorney general Soli Sorabji to Vienna to prevent the UNO human rights commissioner Mary Robinson from visiting India during the Gujarat genocide. The Nuremberg principles and India’s response to the visit make it obligatory that it should not be left to Gujarat government alone to come clean. India has to come clean on it lest we let the door open for anyone to take the matter of the genocide to the UNO under its optional protocol sometimes in the future as the Nero of Gujarat is still fiddling.
The suborning of the system is further borne out in the state setup singling out for dismissal and punishment those officers who chose to remain upright and speak against the genocide or provide evidence about the complicity of the state and its chief minister.
With more and more IPS officers coming out in the open and exposing the misdeeds of Modi it looks awkward what RK Raghvan said in his report which Tehelka reproduced: “As many as 32 allegations were probed into during this preliminary inquiry. These related to several acts of omission and commission by the state government and its functionaries, including the chief minister. A few of these alone were in fact substantiated… the substantiated allegations did not throw up material that would justify further action under the law”.
It is also becoming clear how locational analysis confirms what many suspect. That PC Pande was raised to the post of DGP for his complicity in the genocide. Pande it was who had ordered the dispersal of the about eight hundred bodies of Muslims to different areas of Ahemdabad to dilute the crimes committed at Naroda Patia. About 800 Muslims were killed there alone. He also visited Ahsan Jafri at 10.30 on February 28 but chose to ignore sending succor. His role in Sohrabuddin fake encounter case and in the case of Tulsiram Prajapati is also damning. Rajnish Rai has said in a petition to the SC submitted on August 11, 2011: “Pande’s conduct is clearly and sufficiently established his cupability in the conspiracy to kill Tulsiram Prajapatiin the fake cencounter, destruction of evidence in Sohrabuddin fake encounter case and in causing willful obstruction in investigation of the fake encounter case by using his office as DGP of the state. “
Pande prevented police officers under him from visiting Tulsiram in Rajasthan jail so that the matter would be hushed up or remain out of focus of attention.
Apart from the readily available print outs of the voter lists and the record of the Muslim commercial establishments to the marauders, etc., but also from the ground reality, it is evident that the genocide was well prepared in advance. On February 27, 2002 six officials of the chief ministers’ office were in Meghaninager. They were preparing for the intended wreaking revenge upon the Muslims the next day, the bandh day of February 28. It was hours before the chief minister declaring the Godhra train incident as a work of Lashkare Toiba or Jaishe Mohammad. Meghaninager was not known as communally sensitive place. No Hindu from the adjoining Bhagwatinager had taken part in the attacks on Gulberg society although it was a Hindu colony. The six officers of CMO turned it into a communal cauldron over night. In three hours they spent there from 2 pm to 5pm they over saw the preparation. For, the next day the pogroms started at the Gulberg society which is located in Meghaninager. Hundreds of bottles containing white powder which increased the intensity of burning were found in Gulberg society during the attack. This indicates how meticulously the preparation was made. Who had arranged for the supply of such incendiary substance in such a short time between the visit of the six and the onset of the violence at 7.30 the next day?
Even when the ghastly dance of rape, murder and arson and playing with the skulls of the victims was so overwhelming the cover up of it was even equally horrifying if suborning of the judicial system gives any indication. “Mehta prepared a reply affidavit to be filed before the apex court on behalf of the Gulbarg accused and forwarded a copy to the principal secretary to the chief minister on April 15, 2010.
“Mehta also forwarded a copy of the petition and the affidavit by the accused to Gurumurthy.” This ideologue of the RSS would then add crucial points for argument against the prosecution in defense of the accused.
Thus even the most horrendous crimes of the Gulberg society are taken as a matter of routine cover up giving one the feeling that the administrative set up was hell bent on showing that it was the prerogative of the officials to carry on what they were doing. The life, dignity, rights to live, and the property of the hapless victims ceased to have any meaning in Gujarat of Modi.
Even more bizarre is a note to N Ram, editor of the Hindu. In this Gurmurthy has imputed motive to the SC judges as mentioned earlier. This is yet another case of cavalierly and even nonchalantly disregarding all the norms of civilized society on account of their taking Muslims in the country as sub human ala Aunt Polly in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. She did not consider Negroes reported dead in accident as human casualty. She counted only the dead white as human casualty!
The Parsi woman Rupa Mody who lost her twelve year old son Azhar and a grown up daughter in Gulberg society had even recovered herself in her decency. When her powerful rescuer phoned her as to how many were trapped there, she said three and then looked at the others and corrected herself that there were forty! The police and others including the marauders there and the ones covering it all up do not have even this fig leaf to hide their guilt.
A strange sense of proprietorship prevailed where those tainted with genocide of Muslims and its cover up operation came to believe that they would deal with the President of India Pratibha Patil in the same callous manner. Gurumuthy had prepared a memorandum for her Excellency which the additional advocate general had asked him. Shushma Swaraj, LK Advani, Arun Jaitley and Nitin Gadkari were to present it to the President. Even to complain against the bête noir of Modi, Teesta Setalvad, the government officers meant for prosecuting the accused were employed to carry out a vendetta against civil rights activists thanks to the brazen way Modi had conducted the genocide.
There are many dimensions of genocide in the case of Gujarat 2002. One is the fake encounters carried out in the name of deshbhakti or patriotism and the other is the continued harassment of government servants who did not toe the dictate of the state run by Modi. What Modi and his hordes did was to stigmatize a whole community as terrorists and lawbreakers. Modi took the initiative when he dubbed the Ghansi Muslims of Signal Falia in Godhra as lawless. He blamed them to be responsible for the burning of the compartment S6 of the Sabarmati express on February 27. He went further and called them agents of Inter Services Intelligence of Pakistan. This set the agenda for the worked up outraged Hindus. They would naturally extract a heavy price in terms of human life and property in the stipulated three days the chief minister had given them. Then his lieutenants in the police force like DG Vanzara extended it to the fake encounters that took place one after another. When the Muslims were dubbed as treacherous to the country the inference was that it was patriotism to kill them. Modi carelessly taunted them as child producing factories and scoffed at them working by the roadsides repairing vehicles in their greasy attire. He would say a male Muslim marries four wives, the five then produce twenty five and then it goes on. His audience cheered him lustily and during the pogroms they aimed at causing maximum number of casualties. For example at Gulberg society there were more than a dozen children in the arms of their mothers and fathers. The attackers snatched them and killed them. In several other cases even the pregnant women had their womb slashed open and their fetus pierced with spears. This is the stuff of genocide. In the case of the fake encounters Muslims caught in Gujarat and outside like Maharashtra were taken to illegal private bungalows as detention centres and detained there and they were tortured and murdered. They would be brought to road turnings and dumped there. The police would give it to the press that they were agents of ISI or terrorists groups and were on way to kill Modi. Ishrat Jehan, Sohrabuddin, Sadiq Jamal Mehtar and a host of others were wiped out in this way. Modi government would reward the murderous cops with promotion in office and awards.
As a well orchestrated cover up operation is still underway its sheer brazenness will pale into insignificance other genocides of the recent history including what Pol Pot did in Cambodia. Pol Pot was a military man while Modi is elected repeatedly by his fellow Gujaratis and hence a constitutionally elected head of government neck deep into the genocide of 2002. Neither the central government of BJP under Vajpayee and Advani had any qualms over it despite the President of India KR Narayanan remonstrating with them nor has the mainstream media and intelligentsia done anything beyond token protest or rapping the knuckles. Rahul Sharma was a high ranking officer in charge of Bhavnager in Ahemdabad, a prime posting. He had opened fire at the mob baying for the blood of the Muslims on its way to a madrasa where 300 Muslim kids were housed. Had he not done his duty the kids would have met the fate like their fellow religionists elsewhere. For this he was demoted and sent to the police control room as deputy commissioner of police. He recorded on his official CD telephonic conversation of government officers, Hindu extremists of VHP and Bajrang Dal and the police who were involved in the genocide. He was instantaneously shunted to Surat and now charged with defaming the chief minister. The political configuration of the extremist Hindu groups is of course the political wing called BJP. Its leader Arun Jaitley in his sophistry calls it walking away with secret records. Such is the ever ready pugnacity of the Hindu party BJP that let alone feeling remorse over massacres of Muslims its leaders issue serious warnings to the Home Minister Chidambrum for daring to articulate the constitutional guarantee of safeguarding central government cadres in the police service in Gujarat state who are being harassed, penalized chargesheeted and suspended just because they refused dereliction of duty when the genocide was conducted.
Sanjiv Bhatt was second highest ranking police officer in charge of the security of not only the coastal areas, crucial installations but also the chief minister. He had maintained the official secret act for eight years until he submitted a part of the official record to the Supreme Court hearing one of the most traumatic cases of the genocide, Zakia Jafri’s petition on how her husband and others were gruesomely killed in the Gulberg society on account of the involvement of 62 ministers (Modi included), police officials and political leaders. Since then he has been chargesheeted and suspended from service. It is such a Machiavellian statecraft perfected by Modi that he sticks to his chair like limpet and loses no opportunity to score a point over his rivals or excoriate at them as if he is innocent like the lamb. Guinness book of world record must assure him a place for a government head that crafted the gruesome genocide in real time and conducted it in full steam for three days and can get away with it even in the twenty first century!
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Crime Against Humanity, an inquiry into the carnage in Gujarat. Concerned Citizens Tribunal-Gujarat 2002
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Tulsiram-killed-Haren-not-Asgar-Ali-Sanjiv-Bhatt/articleshow/9802258.cms
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Modi-should-find-out-who-killed-my-husband-Pandya-s-wife/H1-Article1-740018.aspx
TULSIRAM FAKE ENCOUNTER
I only obeyed Aggarwal’s order: Pandya
But, ex-Banaskantha SP says he had no role in encounter
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
http://www.rediff.com/news/report/reinvestigate-pandya-murder-case-former-gujarat-minister/20110830.htm
http://hindu.com/fline/fl2717/stories/20100827271712100.htm
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_cbi-yet-to-probe-sohrabuddin-sheikh-s-link-with-fake-sex-cd_1580348
http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/dec/28bjpspec.htm
Gujarat riots report leaked to RSS man
Mail Today, 5 August 2011









Chapter 7
The Augean stables of Modi
Rajnish Rai had appealed to the Central Administrative Tribunal that DGP PC Pande had given incorrect remark that he had not kept his superiors informed about the arrest of the IPS colleagues D.G. Vanzara, Rajkumar Pandian and Dinesh Kumar M.N. Rai had arrested them on charges that they had taken part in the fake encounter and murder of Sohrabuddin Shaikh. This had happened when Rai was investigation officer of the murder during his tenure April 1 to August 22, 2007. His immediate boss OP Mathur did not assess his performance and forwarded the report to the government. If anything this is a clear example of how the administration of the chief minister Narendra Modi tried to obstruct the process of investigation into the fake encounter.
Before the high court took up the issue on September 13, 2011, on September10th the home department of the state government cunningly removed the remark of Pande and upgraded Rai’s performance and informed Rai that it was making this so called correction. This was a clear case of suborning on the part of Mathur, Pande, Amit Shah and ultimately Modi. Pande charging Rai for insubordination was nothing else but suppressing truth. That this could be going on with impunity was on account of the covering up of the genocide in which most of the administrative staff including the police was involved along with the ministers and the chief minister. Rai performed his constitutional duty of arresting the three. How could he have strayed from duty while performing such a serious task of arresting such high ranking colleagues?
Even this belated move of the state government Gujarat falls in line with its attempt to cover up the genocide that it sponsored in the first place. Rai also mentions that Pande and Mathur wanted to mislead the Supreme Court of India regarding the fake encounter and its overall relation with other fake encounters and the pogroms. Of the nine cases now being tried outside the state two are on the fake encounters and the rest with the massacre of Muslims. Their immediacy of time and the targeting of Muslims and murdering them makes all of them genocidal acts. Pande’s tampering the evidence in preparing the progress report of Rai is similar to his tampering with the actual number of Muslims killed in Naroda Patia and his dispersal of the bodies to other parts to lessen the enormity of the crimes.
These crimes are quite interrelated to each other for Rai who also mentions that Pande at the behest of Shah and Modi prevented the interrogation of Tulsiram Prajapati by investigation officer VL Solanki. These two encounter cases are related with the murder of Haren Pandya who had revealed the matter discussed and decided upon in the night meeting of February 27, 2002. That was mother of all conspiracies because it was Modi who had instructed the officers to allow Hindus to vent out their anger at Muslims. That would mean in real terms murdering them and burning and looting their property and desecrating their religious places for full three days. That is what they did as the reports in newspapers and independent inquiry commissions have verified.
Even the expunging the adverse remark of Pande is nothing short of hiding the genocide because Pande had blamed Rai of insubordination by deliberately failing to inform the DGP about his arrest of Vazara, Pandian and Dinesh. Of course, Rai had informed the DGP about the arrest which Pande could have prevented. But by doing so Pande would have gone further deeper into the stagnant water of the cover up of the genocide. Pande and his ilks up to the CM were rather floundering as they had taken the world opinion for granted. But this is timed to reveal the truth ultimately as much other genocide around the world has opened up the graves from which the ghosts of slain victims are staring at the succeeding generations. It has made difficult for India to redeem its honour and salvage its position as the leader of the third world countries which are infested by genocides. Modi’s brouhaha of development is in tangential relationship with his attempt to cover up 2002. In both the cases of Sohrabuddin and Prajapati and also that of Kauser bi, Vanzara has been moving what the Bible calls as a pillar of darkness from Ahmadabad to Banskantha and then to his own native village of Ilol where he burnt Kauser and buried her ashes in the concrete slab of his well. This movement of the pillar of darkness was most visible as he cordoned off the traffic and called military crane to haul the car carrying her dead body when it was stuck in the mud. He had ordered wood from Ahmadabad for her pyre. He was chief of the crime branch which inquired into the murder of Sohrabuddin and then he worked as the chief of police in the border region when Prajapati was brought there and killed.
As the plot thickens it is found that the phone call details of Haren Pandya are stolen from the case paper. Interestingly Arun Jaitley and Modi’s other henchmen had it. Vanzara had submitted it to the Nanavati-Shah commission.
Tehelka also reveals a part of the murky goings on: “the CBI investigating officer claims that Pandya’s call records of March 2003 could not be found, while those of the two previous months were provided. These records, a copy of which is with TEHELKA, show 40 calls made by a female journalist from Ahmedabad. Surprisingly, neither the CBI nor the police quizzed her.”
The murders of Haren Pandya and Sohrabuddin are very much related to each other. Pandya was murdered because he had revealed the instructions of Modi to his police and administration officers. Sohrbuddin was employed by Amit Shah to kill off Pandya. It is likely until proved otherwise that Sohrabuddin did try and if not Asghar Ali or others from Hyderabad who killed Pandya then Prajapati and some others were used. This involvement of Sohrabuddin who may not have killed Pandya but knew about the efforts to have the revenue minister bumped off. To wipe out the trace Sohrabuddin had to go. In the meantime Mufti Sufiyan was used to frame the twelve accused. The mufti was then made to escape and abscond even when his house was under police observation. Then his wife and son disappeared when the house was still under watch. Abhay Chaudasma must have played a crucial role as the father of the mufti enjoyed the patronage of Chaudasma. The moot question is why this mastermind of the murder of Pandya was a risk to the government of Modi and had to disappear?
So much muck of injustice, cruelty and criminal connivance, has gathered in such cases that it would require a Hercules to wash the stables clean. Such a heroic man will have to turn the water of the Narbada to do the cleansing. So many self styled sardars are there but no true Gandhi.
Rai has also said in his affidavit that Pande and Mathur acted at the instance of Amit Shah.
If it were only the case of pressurizing or harassing Rai as Modi administration was attempting to cover up crimes, this could have been an exception. But it is highly exceptionable because there are hundreds of such cases. This kind of atmosphere that this 21st century Macbeth has created in a democratic country makes a mockery of investigation and the courts which are trying them and the Supreme Court overseeing them. The incorrect investigation, faulty FIR, deliberately omitting names of leaders accused of killing Muslims, buying over witnesses with hefty amount of money, RSS tainted advocates, prosecutors, etc., have made Gujarat stink as did the Augean statebles.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/State-expunged-adverse-remarks-unilaterally-Govt-cleans-up-Rajnish-Rais-ACR/articleshow/9940169.cms
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_haren-pandya-murder-wife-moves-gujarat-hc-for-fresh-probe_1585707
“Time to blow the lid off” Tehelka October 2011.


















Chapter 8
New Home Secretary of Modi: “These Muslims are filthy people, burn them to ashes!”
There has been for sometimes a noisy and overexcited critical response and display of interest and trail of publicity over the sidelined cops who did not toe Narendra Modi’s line of massacring Muslims in post Godhra carnage. So much so that even national mainstream papers are taken in and forget to look closely into the matters and unearth the truth and publish it rather than being carried away by sops dished out to them. The government of Nrendra Modi in Gujarat has promoted MD Manoj Antani as Home Secretary. He was the DSP of Bharuch in 2002. Showing open contempt to the civil society, Modi has dared to take them on. But his shrewd move though bewitching to some for the time being has also given away the truth. Antani was the Deputy Superintendent of Police of Bharuch. Zakia Jafri and CJP who have filed a case against Modi and 61 others have included Antani as an important witness in the case, the second witness after AC Kapoor secretary for home in 2006. One of the reasons why he (Antani) is home secretary today is to silence him or to curry favour with him in order that he would help suppress the truth.
It has been mistakenly reported that Antani was a sidelined cop who did not carry out the instructions of Modi to let the Hindus wreak havoc on the Muslims in revenge for the train fire on the Sabarmati Express on February 27, 2002. The truth is far from this. He on his own opted for the central government deputation from the Gujarat lot because he feared his record was quite incriminating, to say the least.
If the police officer KK Mysorewalla’s remark that there was order from the above not to save the Muslims from the marauding hordes made the title of a report by a Human Rights Watch book on Gujarat 2002, the remark of Antani will one day become a much more publicized title of another book. Antani had led his police men break the doors of Muslims in Bharuch city. He took away sixteen Muslim youths and tortured them while in detention. The torture started when he ordered his men in uniform “These Muslims are filthy people, burn them to ashes!” (Yeh sab kshan Muslims hain, unko jala do aur khakh kar do!) The blood curdling beating started and continued.
The highly inhuman and criminal behavior of Antani comes in a context which is even more horrifying. In an area of Bharuch called Bahar ki Undai a blood thirsty mob was led by the Home Guards and also some police on March 19, 2002. The Home Guards opened fired on Muslims and killed some. Home Guard Bharat Sunderlal Bhatia killed Sayyid Sirajuddin Jibbo. Another Home Guard Deepak Samardas Rana killed a woman called Najma. Another Muslim who was injured in the firing was Shabber Khan.
This crowd had come from Dandia Bazaar where Deepak Samardas Rana lived. He led the mob to Undai. He had deserted his post which was 200 meters away in another area. As he led the mob, those behind him started a hail of stones at the Muslims after he had opened fire on the Muslims.
The subsequent breaking of doors and arrest on the orders of Antani was a sequel to this. Most notable feature is that this recrudescence of pogrom happened full seventeen days after Modi’s stipulated three days sanction for anti Muslim violence.
The same white powder that burnt down to ashes Gulberg society was used in Bharuch too with the same disastrous effect. How could hundreds of packets and bottles of the powder find their way to these farfetched places? What more proof would the courts need to judge the genocidal fury unleashed on the Muslims by Modi and lieutenants, like Antani? “Burn them to ashes” (unko jala dalo aur khkh kar do!) thundered the man who is now Home Secretary to Modi.
There is a base side to human nature of some. In the present case it is, like master like servant. It is not confined by one’s being born in any particular faith. It is such a depravity that its greed makes man feel no shame, let alone any remorse. An episode that local Narmada channel had telecast live was the collector of Bharuch Anju Sharma and DSP Manoj Antani gorging on cashew nuts and almonds. These two had let the mobs of Hindus break open the shops of Muslims in Barelikho in Bharuch on February 28. The marauders passed on the booty stolen from the dry fruits shops of Muslims. They ingratiated the ‘sahebs’ for their largess in allowing them to loot and then burn. These officials of Modi administration were carrying out the instructions that Modi had given them in the late night meeting at his residence only twelve hours ago.
Question: How does one prove all these accusations?
Answer: The strike called by Vishwa Hindu Parishad on February 28 started the three days stipulated time Modi gave the mobs to take revenge upon the Muslims when his police would let them vent their anger. His satrap Viral Desai was the boss of VHP unit of Bharuch. Antani was its DSP of the town. Aju Sharma its collector. Given the kind of situation that was created there the order passed from the administration to the religious wing of the party which ruled the state. After all, the chief minister and the Prime Minister Vajpayee and his Home Minister LK Advani always felt proud to be members of Rashtra Swayamsevak Sangh. VHP and BJP are different configurations of the same.
On the same channel Desai had unsheathed his sword and gave a call for the strike while shouting in his fervor “It is official secret that the police are with us in this” (“Yeh under ki baat hai, police hamare saath hai.”) By no means was it an empty boast. The sword struck its victims while the hordes encored the slogan “Yeh under ki baat hai, police hamare saath hai.” The police and the hordes shared the open secret and so there was no need to deny it. The police and the government never bothered to issue any denial. It was a foregone conclusion.
Antani was not sidelined. A punitive action was taken against him because the High Court was hearing a case. In that case Antani had made a blunder. There was some trouble in another part of Bharuch called Haji Khana Bazaar right on March 18 when Hindus had gathered in the house of Bhupender Manilal Gandhi. It followed attack on Taiba mosque. The attackers included Desai. He was in the crowd which demanded the imam to hand Muslim youths accused of unlawful gathering, under section 144. When the magistrate Mr Trivedi came there and Muslims demanded release of the seven youths the police had caught, Desai prevailed upon the magistrate and the section was changed to 307. The youths could not be released. As if this was not enough, Antani botched up and joined the 16 youths he had forced his men to break doors and drag out and detain and put their names in the same FIR. How could the sixteen in one place Undai be shown to be in a far away Haji Khana Bazaar case?
Therefore, it would be appropriate to say that Antani was shunted to avoid the blot from becoming too prominent and when the transfer to the central government deputation came handy he was allowed to escape. And now he is reinstated with promotion in office and dignity!
How could he be described, as in the words of the national mainstream paper, ‘sticking to the rule book during the riot’? At long last his master should now heed the rule of law; the rule book ceases to matter before the rule of law.
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Chapter 9
Haren Pandya: the Achilles heels of Narendra Modi
Of all the gory tales of Gujarat genocide is and will remain the mysterious murder of Haren Pandya, the revenue minister. It is the Gordon’s knot that would one day be cut apart. In doing so, the full disclosure will take Modi with it. There is every reason to believe that it would lead to the first ever arrest of the chief minister. He has posed as invincible. In that lies exactly his hubris and harmartia, his arrogance and fatal flaw. He had espoused the odious ideology of RSS to exterminate Muslim minority. He boldly did it but partly in a region of his state which was amendable to the hostile situation against the Muslims, in 19 districts out of 25. However, that itself is a daunting work in 21st century. This bold misadventure has left clues and leads which the governments at the centre and in the state could order objective probe or let the UN do it as did Syria in the assassination of Farooq Harere or Pakistan in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Gujarat is so vitiated by judicial suborning and subversion that there is no chance of finding the facts. Moreover the RSS is so awsomely powerful and well armed in the land that it would prevent with full force any disclosure as it prevailed upon Gordhan Zadaphya from appearing before Special Investigation Team. No national law can prevail where the RSS is. This does not mean the courts have simply failed to do justice but justice has been far too long denied. Moreover another term in office for Hindu party BJP would mostly stall the investigation and grossly intervene in the prosecution. The party is dangling the carrot of Modi to its own hard line core groups and a stick to the minorities.
Haren Pandya was killed because he had for the first time blown the whistle over the genocide when he chose to appear before the panel of Citizens for Peace and Justice. That rankled Modi whose chief secretary PK Mishra ordered DGP Intelligence chief RB Sreekumar to find details of the phone used by Pandya. That phone was with the deceased in his car but mysteriously all the calls on the morning of March 26, 2003 were deleted. His widow Jagruti and others say that they had given calls and sent missed calls but the record was interfered and wiped out when he was murdered. The twelve Muslims accused of killing him spent eight years in prison and were sentenced to death four years ago and acquitted in 2011. Asghar Ali was the one who killed him, said the charge sheet and it went on to say that he was in Hyderabad and brought to Ahmadabad to kill Pandya. However, his phone records show that he was not in Hyderabad. There is a deeper conspiracy which involves Andhara Pradesh because the police of that state had also helped the Gujarat police in nabbing Sohrabuddin whom they killed in a fake encounter. A police officer of the IG rank had booked a hostel room for the killer cops from Gujarat. The IG has been deliberately not named so far. This shows tampering with evidence at its worst. So the sway of Modi’s power runs across different states, a dimension that the police and the governments do not want to even name let alone think over its larger implication.
The only larger implications that cops of Hyderbad and Ahmadabad were briefed are one point agenda of the Hindutva that there is a larger Muslim conspiracy of terrorism. This fall out of 9/11 is quizzical in the context of India because Indian Muslims had nothing to do with 9/11 or bombings in London and elsewhere. The Prime Minister of India AB Vajpayee speaking at 4.30 pm on February 27th 2002 said in the Parliament that the fire on Sabarmati Express at Godhra was an accident and a result of “slogan shouting”. It is also true that the Hindutva cadres were shouting slogans then and also on December 6th 1992 during the demolition of Babri mosque. At that time also Vajpayee had retorted the sloganeering crowds in Lucknow by mimicking the slogan in a parody. Mandir wahin banaenge aur nahi karenge koi kaam. (We will build the temple there and do no other works, read, remain idle). He went into his poetic taciturnity. But the RSS cadet in him resurfaced few weeks later and he blamed the Muslims universally who do not know how to live with their neihgbours! The post 9/11 ethos swept many more over their feet. By blaming Muslims as terrorists the cops framed charges against them in all sundry cases. One such was that of killing of Haren Pandya as part of a larger conspiracy of Muslims.
The police thought that they could frame any one for just asking. When Modi asks they would behead anyone and present the head in a platter. Pandya’s is just that. So much so that the real killers shot him perpendicularly through his left testicle and the bullet journeyed to the back part of his right chest. If the real killers were Abhay Chaudasma and Tulsiram Prajapati as new discoveries point out then this should not surprise because Chaudasma claims to have saved Sohrabuddin. But more than that, it was he who also had raped and killed Sohrabuddin’s wife Kauser. To destroy the proof of her body DGP DG Vanzara cremated it at his farm and threw the ashes in his well and paved the well with concrete. The mobs that raped and then burnt Muslim women and girls had their counterparts in the uniform doing the same with sadistic pleasure. Nay, sometimes they did it with their fellow religionists when lured by temptation. Therefore it would be apt to describe Modi as Achilles whose heels contain the secret of his mortality as the multiple heads of Ravana contained his. Killing Pandya is striking his own heels. The nemesis seems to be not far away. There is a graphic retort in the evidence of Pandya’s secretary, Neelesh Bhatt. He was the first to reach the car and when he opened the door the feet of Pandya’s corpse struck his chest. This could only mean that Pandya was killed earlier elsewhere and his body was shoved in his car and the door was shut. So Neelesh Bhatt bore the automated hit of the dead man’s feet rather than the police who chose to come later.
Pandya had also walked with three friends from the army and bureaucracy as was his wont in his morning walk. Thus much time had lapsed as the police found the body after ten thirty. It only means he was taken away to a place and shot and then brought to his car and shoved in.
The police arrested five Muslims on 4/5 April and extracted false confession since one of them had a call from Asghar Ali in Hyderabad whose identity the cell phone saved as “Mehman”. When the police rang this Mehman( Asghar Ali) he was shown to be in Hyderbad. But Asghar Ali’s phone record did not show him to be in Hyderabad. And strangely that crucial evidence or phone disappeared! From that disappeared phone Asghar Ali supposedly made a call from Law Garden at 7.33. In other words the police fabricated evidence to trap Muslims in the so called war on terror.
Pandya had told Justice PB Sawant and Justice Hosbet Suresh of CPJ commission of inquiry that Modi had instructed that Hindus should be allowed to take revenge. “Narendra Modi had made it clear that there would be a backlash from Hindus on the next day… and police should not come in their way”. Modi had told the cops “not to deal with the Hindu rioting mobs”. Moreover in his fourth affidavit RB Sreekumar writes what DGP K Chakravarthi had told him about Modi who had instructed them: “in communal riots, police takes action against Hindus and Muslims on one-to-one basis. This will not do now, allow Hindus to give vent to their anger” (paragraph 84 of RB Sreekumar’s fourth affidavit before the Nanavati-Mehta Commission dated October 27, 2005). In fact Pandya had made a video recording of the meeting at the residence of the CM on February 27. This had posed the greatest threat to Modi who must have ordered his murder. It is strange that the present mood of the people in India is very much against corruption and G2 case involving Raja and others. There is little enthusiasm for any probe into the role that Modi had played in 2002 genocide. Therefore the need is either the courts speed up the trial or else an inquiry by an international commission of inquiry only could unearth secret. This is true in the Pandya murder case because so much depends on who killed him and why.
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Mail Today, 14 October 2011

Gujarat riots: Retired tribunal judges testify
by Bhavesh on Sat 04 Sep 2010 TOI
“A tale of two judgements Chitra Padmanabhan” Mail Today, 14 October 2011
















Chapter 10
Grounded in real facts
Despite protracted evasion and sophistry as dynamics of covering up the barbaric genocide of Muslims, truth has strange as well as well established means to reveal itself. There is the ditty “man hi deota man hi ishwar man se bada na koi, bhare bure sare karmon ko dekhe aur dekhaye” (The mind is the idol the mind is the god all the good and evil deeds it knows and also reveals.) The minds of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are examples.
Impartial observers like the collector of Godhra on the day of the accident February 27, 2002, Justice PB Sawant, Justice Hosbet Suresh, Ms Aruna Roy, Advocate KG Kannabrian, Dr KS Subramanian (retired IPS, former DGP, Tripura), Prof Tanika Sarkar (Department of History, JNU), Prof Ghanshyam Shah (Department of Social Sciences and Community Health, JNU) who visited and recorded evidence within a couple of months of the genocide, Smita Narula (Human Rights Watch), and a host of NGOs, honest and upright police men and officers who refused to be bribed by Modi, etc., have recorded enough proof of culpability of Modi and his administration. Among them are also the journalists of probity and impartial reporting who did their field work and reported the matter on daily basis.
The police had identified Babu Bajrangi alias Babu Patel and five other Bajrang Dal activists responsible for the burning alive of 53 Muslims of Naroda Patia. The real figure came out much later. It rose to more about 800 and now it is estimated into hundreds and the over all casualties in Naroda Patia and other places is about 3000. But the Indian Express reporter filing report on March 4 said that the police had revealed that they also believed that Bajrangi was involved in the incidents at Gulbarg society as well where he was charged along with nine others but with a different name, Girish. However, the VHP joint secretary Jaydeep Patel who had brought the 58 dead bodies of the Sabarmati express passengers to Ahmadabad and took part in the post Godhra carnage claimed that Bajrangi was out of town on the fateful day! Anyone reading the report in the March 5th edition of the paper would know very well that in the initial stage of the pogrom the police knew that Bajrangi was involved in Naroda Patia as well as Gulbarg society albeit with an assumed name Girish. Based on these reports the commissioner of police PC Pande had issued a shoot at sight order against Bajrangi. Pande had also ordered that the dead bodies at Naroda Patia should be scattered all over Ahmadabad so that the enormity of the crime would be reduced.
Modi’s role is also documented. He visited Patiya and was impressed by what Bajrangi and others were doing. According to Bajrangi Modi encouraged them to continue their bloody revenge the following day, too. In fact Bajrangi told Tehelka on August 10, 2007: “Narendrabhai had come to see that things didn’t stop the next day.” Afterward Modi shielded Bajrangi. Bajrangi spoke to the minister of state for home and narrated what he and other accomplices had done to the Muslims. Gordhan Zadaphia told Bajrangi to run away and hide. The home minister was Modi and he helped Bajrangi to abscond from law and he allowed him to hide in the Gujarat government guest house at Mount Abu. While Bajrangi was absconding he spoke to Modi two or three times. Then the CM persuaded him to surrender. The surrender tamasha, farce, was choreographed by PP Pande and KK Mysorewala, in charge of the Naroda Patia section. Modi did not stop at that. He helped Bajrangi to get bail. He changed justices one after another until Justice Akshay Maehta came there. He granted bail to Bajrangi. So severe were the crime charges that one of the judges had told Bajrangi that he would have sent him to life imprisonment for two times. Modi rewarded justice Mehta by appointing him on the Nanavati-Shah Commission of inquiry into the Godhra and subsequent violence. This topsy-turvy judiciary system was working at whose instance?
These well documented facts show that Modi was directly and personally not only involved in the crimes against humanity but he supervised and presided over it.
How Modi parried the questions of the media on the second day of the fast of September 2011is a peep into the mind of the man who was engaged in another farce of pretending to fast three days for peace harmony and brotherhood without even giving a sign of feeling contrite at all. “Asked in what way he would regret the killings that took place in the state then, he said: “I have talked about it elaborately in my letter today. I had made a statement then also, but you people forgot it when it is the truth. You (media) are always looking for gossip and if you like a lie, you stretch it to any extent.”’
What he had written in his letter released on the eve of the fast on September 16, 2011 is another tell-tale story of parrying the question, evading the truth, covering lies in the garb of verbal juggling. He wrote: “Twenty first century did not begin well for Gujarat. In 2001the devastating earthquake on our Republic day, took a very heavy toll. In the subsequent year, Gujarat became the victim of communal violence. We lost innocent lives suffered devastation of property and endured lot of pain. One can visualize what all we have gone through.” The first three sentences make out the natural disaster and the man made calamity appear to be a curse to the state. They naturally club together the natural and the man made in order to hide the fact that his role in the second was pivotal, that he was the cause of the pogroms that started from February 28 and continued for many days and weeks. The loss of life and property in the fourth sentence is quite generic and thus obliterates what the planned genocide did to the Muslim. He could have avoided it had he taken the line of the collector and later the forensic laboratory’s conclusion that the fire incident happened within the compartment which was shut and barricaded and there was no chance of anyone throwing inflammable material from outside. Nobody could dare to enter compatment S6 as the temple volunteers were not only well armed with trident, trishul, among other weapons but were also in a belligerent mood to take on anyone and they had left a trail of violent aggression on the Muslim passengers and tea vendors. Furthermore the loss of lives and devastation of property in the later sentences will mean more the result of the seismic incident rather than the pogroms. He has clearly evaded any direct reference to the loss the Muslims have gone through.
He writes in the same vein further: “My dear Brothers and Sisters! No states, society or individual can claim to be perfect. I am grateful to all those who pointed out my genuine mistakes during last ten years. I seek your blessings to serve the people with devotion free from all human shortcomings. As chief minister of the state, the pain of each and every citizen is my own pain.” His seeking blessing instead of forgiveness is again noteworthy. He does not ring true when he says that “the pain of each and every citizen” is his. He not only paid half of the compensation for every dead victim to his or her bereaved families in case they were from the Muslim community and to the Hindu beraved families he paid double amount. He even closed the relief camps when the refugees had nowhere to go and they were boycotted by Hindus. They could not even think of going back to their hearth and heaths or restart their work to earn their daily bread because the Hindu mobs had left nothing for them to restart life on.

Towards the end he invokes even god: “During my fast, I will continue to pray to the Almighty to give me strength so that I do not develop or retain any ill-feeling or bitterness towards those who defamed Gujarat or me by making false allegations.” Nothing can be far from truth because “those who defamed Gujarat or me” falsely cannot be assumed not to be the victims of the genocide. Their grief and loss was and is genuine. The poor and dispossessed and bereaved families in the relief camps were his eye sore for he taunted and abused them as child producing factories. Inhumanly and cussedly he closed down the camps hardly five months after the genocide! Those who tried to expose all this were certainly not enemies of either Gujarat or him. This again is grounded in facts which happened in 2002 and the chief minister and his government’s efforts to cover up and deny justice to the victims. For example during the same three days of fasting two startling facts came out. One, that Sreekumar and Ranjiv Bhatt had disclosed that Modi had ordered them to grease the palms of the lawyers of Mallika Sarabhai so that the horrors of Naroda Patia would not be investigated and tried in the court of law. Second, like master like servants. Two of the accused of Naroda Patiya Jaydeep Patel and Atul Vaidya also visited Modi when he was fasting. These were also involved in killing Muslims and were now sitting with Modi in the fast for harmony peace and brotherhood while the victims of the genocide were barricaded and turned back from visiting the scene of the fasting jamboree!
Mallika Sarabhai has alleged: “The day after Sreekumar took over as the chief of IB and a couple of days after I filed my PIL, Sanjiv Bhatt and Sreekumar were called to the C Minister’s office. As soon as they entered, according to Sreekumar’s affidavit, Modi asked him ‘do you know about Mallika’s case?’ and Sreekumar said ‘no I don’t’ she said quoting the affidavit. So the CM said ‘the PIL she has filed is extremely dangerous for the government and I have sanctioned Rs 10 lakh that can derail this, Sanjiv Bhatt knows about it, please give him Rs 10 lakh from your secret fund,’” she added. This episode is too damning to leave any doubt of Modi’s complicity in hatching the conspiracy and the well anticipated cover up it would make it bounden on him to order and his accomplices in all the process to tackle the matter arising out of the genocide and the fake encounters which follow in tandem. The fake encounters followed the same policy of dispossessing of the minority and depriving them of their right to life.
Demonstrating a cover-up job of Modi of Gujarat
On May 5, 2011 the Supreme Court refused to consider the affidavit that Sanjiv Bhatt had submitted to it. SIT submitted its report on April 25 and denied that Bhatt attended the meeting at the house of Modi. Bhatt alleged that the CM had told the police to let the Hindus vent out their anger at the Muslims as he wanted to teach the Muslim a lesson to stop the balancing act of the previous governments in communal rights and let the Hindus have the upper hand and to tilt the balance in their favour for good. The other serious observation of the SIT is that Bhatt has some motive to level grave charges nine years later and it calls for a probe. Next, he tutored his driver to give false information.
Earlier report of SIT submitted in November 2010 had found insufficient evidence against Modi and amicus curaie Raju Ramchandran objected to “no prosecutable evidence against Modi.” SC asked SIT to probe further.
However SC hinted at the fact that SIT had not come up with any change in the second report submitted to it. It had given 8 weeks time to Ramchandran to study all the evidence and suggest if any offence can be made out against anyone. Next hearing was on July 28. Thus the slow movement of the judicial process makes one wonder whether the adage justice delayed is justice denied is still true.
This has been going on in Gujarat for more than ten years now. It is proudly passed off as Moditva, unrepentant hijacking of the state to commit atrocities and still go scot free. The best example is Babu Bhai Bajrangi. The crimes he committed speak loudly for the heaven to hear and yet some on the earth have not heard it so far! The courts also seem to be taken in by Moditva. Madhu Srivastava and his people made Zahira Shaikh turn hostile. She went to jail but they are still free. Of the accused and convicted for life in prison now another witness has turned hostile. The case must reopen again and this would continue ad absurdum.
The obvious reason is that the endeared chote sardar of Gujarat is also capable of becoming the Prime Minister! Therefore the judicial process must continue as it is going until more hurdles come in the way and the courts prolong to kingdom come!
The crimes Modi has committed are like a hippopotamus clearly seen trampling the grass on the lawn and yet the investigators are holding the magnifying glass close to their eyes and prying into the roots of the grass as if watching the movement of an ant. The fun is that Modi knows that we know it that he knows it!
The impotency of everyone in the face of all this is a tribute to those who had gathered at Janter Manter for a revolution to usher in. Exceptions are there to prove the rule.
Modi brought in a reign of terror, in the words of Zakia Jafri. He conspired, he executed the conspiracy and is busy in what Shanti Bhushan calls cover-up job. The courts like the Chief Minister are vying with each other to go to infinity in time. Will nine years that Sanjiv Bhatt took slide into nine decades before justice is delivered?
Till then truth has strange ways of asserting itself. On October 29, 2011 the irate mob in Juhapura burnt a police van which had entered the ghetto that is otherwise not a regular practice. Somebody had tipped off the police that animals were brought in there for the festival of sacrifice on November 7. Police arrested some people. An important witness in the massacre at Naroda Patia called Nadeem Ahmad Sayid told the police that some different persons were involved. Those whose names he revaled went to his house and in broad day light killed him on November 5. The four assailants stabbed him 28 times. Nadeem was a police informer but what is crucial is the fact that he was an important witness in the massacre. A girl victim had found a mobile phone left by the perpetrators of the genocide. She picked the phone on March 18, 2002 from the place where the marauders had killed one Hasan Ali. The phone 9825054777 belonged to an accused in the Naroda Patia mass atrocities, Ashok Sindhi. The girl gave it to an inmate of the relief camp, Hyderali. He handed it over to Nadeem a dealer in mobile. Nadeem started using the phone and one day Mehboob Senior, an accomplice of the late underword gangster Abdul Latif called him and threatened to kill him. Nadeem informed the police. He had a security constable allotted to him as he was a witness in the massacre. On the day he was killed he had reportedly told the constable that he did not need him. He used the constable to attend him when he went out into the non Muslim areas. Thus he was killed right in the Muslim ghetto for apparently a different reason. But it is still doubtful if this is really the case. However, the event is a momentary flash back to the horrors of the genocide of 2002. Sindhi was regularly in touch with the police on phone. So the Modi government which has wiped out the other phone records in unseemly hurry and yet the secret pops up from time to time. Nadeem submitted the mobile to court as evidence of the massacre. It included video clippings showing Muslim women raped and killed as well as all the other atrocities. Such films were sold for a high price during those days and people who made them made huge profits. Such is the enterprising nature of the people that they dig out money out of the dead bodies by tracing how when they were living bodies they had to go through the gory saga of suffering which the rich would love enjoying it vicariously in their bed rooms. They are like the drug addicts who go for the most abnormal to suck whatever is oozed out of the fantastic and the bizarre. Another bizaare piece is the dreaded Kalu Garden known adeft in slitting neck that the enterprising Gujarati money power powered.
How many more stories the mobile phone still has and how many more Ashoke Sindhies are still waiting to see the light of the day? Even when the biological beasts may hide but the ghosts still struggle to come out. And how many cell phones and mobiles are still untraced?
But for the one left by Sindhi there was more than money at stake. VHP (America) of Sonal Shah and other right wing Hindu sources made Gujarat 2002 flush with money.



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Ht SC for objective review of riot case May 5, 2011.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/SIT-rejects-Gujarat-cop-Bhatts-riot-charges-against-Modi/articleshow/8173478.cms

During his cross-examination by the Central Relief Committee advocate B.M. Mangukia, Bhatt was asked if somebody from the Gujarat government tried to brief him before he was to appear before the SIT, appointed by Supreme Court in November 2009.
To which, Bhatt said he was approached by Shah, the then Minister of State for Home, after he was summoned by the SIT.
Mangukia then asked, “Did Shah ask you not to speak the truth about the meeting of February 27, 2002,” Bhatt replied in the affirmative.
However, Bhatt replied in the negative when the lawyer asked whether Shah threatened him.

http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/GUJ-AHD-gujarat-sanjiv-bhatt-claims-amit-shah-tried-to-influence-him-2128009.html?PRV
Tehelka November 3, 2007.
Riot accused at protest venue, Modi parries questions on taking responsibilities for 2002. Indian Express September 19, 2011.
Sarabhai: Modi bribed my lawyers to derail riots PIL. Indian Express September 19, 2011.





















Chapter 11
Holocaust that Narendra Modi brought about
It is great irony of the time that the US feels its economic interest threatened by the Palestinians’ movement for full recognition of Palestine by the UNO while it is eagerly desirous and preparing as is selectively reported for welcoming Narendra Modi as the future Prime Minister of India. Modi was the architect of 2002 Gujarat holocaust in which 2000 Muslims perished. It was the holocaust of the subcontinent of Asia that too in the twenty first century.
One of the prominent persons to visit Gujarat in the aftermath of the 2002 genocide was a woman survivor of the holocaust that the Nazis had brought upon the Jews in which six million were killed in the gas chambers. She had survived the Auschwitz concentration camp. She in her old age was amazed that such holocaust could take place in the twenty first century!
It is also a fact that Gujarat turned into the heart of darkness where the chief minister could issue dire threats to the free lance journalists who tried to cover the events. He ominously held a threat to them: “Those journalists who cover Gujarat..may meet the fate of Daniel Pearl…Cover communal riots at your own risk, look at Daniel Pearl.” Incidentally Pearl was also a Jew whom the Pakistani militants killed when he was on the trail of Osama bin Laden. The Gujarat government went to the other extreme and reminded the media persons “The killing of Daniel Pearl in Pakistan is a perfect example (italics added to elicit intent of the government). Did the state government want to keep Pearl killing as a precedent that they would emulate now? Modi’s reference to Pearl and his machination of the holocaust in his state and his holding the six crore people there spellbound is reminiscent of no other than Adolf Hitler. How did he manage all this?
He exploited the position of his office he occupied, and the ideology of the Hindu right, and the atmosphere of hatred he nurtured, and the organizational clout and enormous resources of RSS. He through his servile and sycophantic officers denied help to the victims of the pogrom at the time they were encircled and cried for help and approached the police who turned them away and then raised all kinds of hurdles in their paths in order to prevent them from getting justice. He allowed through his police his lumpen elements to use their muscles at courts and at venue where public meetings were held. Even when DG Vanzara was brought to court his muscle men were ubiquitously present as they were when witnesses came to give evidence before the courts. This is true even when there were no Muslims present at the time Vanzara was arrested or brought to court. The mob acted as Gestapo of the Nazis.
This has continued even till recently. For example when the BJP wanted to hold a meeting at Vastra on September 25, 2011 and Act Now for Harmony and Democracy (Anhad) wanted to hold a protest meeting at Juhapura the police did not allow the latter from doing it. When the NGO reminded the police officer that they had constitutional right to do so, the police told them curtly that the others had the right to disturb them. This cannot go on unless the police are at the beck and call of the chief minister. This was taking place against the backdrop of the living condition at the Juhapura refugee settlement which is no better than the Jews herded into the racks of the concentration camps of the Nazis. Reports indicate the plight of the refugees: “Some of the 2002 riot victims are staying in Bombay Hotel area on the outskirts of Ahmedabad literally on dumps of Municipal waste and sewage lines without any Municipal water supply, earning meagre amounts through odd jobs. Juhapura the biggest Muslim ghetto of Ahmedabad having a population of about 3 lakhs, which was always referred to as ‘mini Pakistan’ does not have a state road transportation stop or city bus stop. Development by passed Juhapura and other Muslim ghettos and Muslims do not get housing outside their ghettos. Telephone companies stubbornly refuse Fixed Wireless connection on Juhapura address and request to give alternative address! Only recently a nationalised Bank opened its branch in Juhapura. Gujarat’s bureaucracy on instructions of “higher ups” refuses to implement Prime Minister’s 15 Point Programme, including, providing scholarships for education and almost entire fund is returned every year. Muslim truck owners/drivers are regularly beaten up with tacit support from police for extortion else threatened to be arrested and their truck seized on false charge of transporting cows to slaughter houses. Who will employ Muslims as drivers? In Kutch region Muslims on instructions do not get ration cards as they could be Pakistani infiltrators!”
With this kind of festering of the wound of the victims and their increasing degradation of life Modi was quite arrogant when he stared at the media person who had asked him it was now time to own up moral responsibility. “What is that?” this made Salil Desai fall off his chair: “As I fell off my chair, appalled at the man’s breathtaking brazenness, I realised for the first time that he simply does not seem to have any concept of ‘remorse’, leave alone a conscience that yearns for ‘sadbhavana’.
“Modi is basically like one of those medieval kings, who consider the slaughter of minority subjects as an inevitable part of ‘rajdharma’. The riots of 2002, according to his primer on ‘ruling’, were a harsh punishment in which a community needed to be taught a lesson they would never ever forget. Thus, where’s the question of expressing regret and making amends even 10 years down the line?”
Desai points out the real fact of Modi when he asks Anna Hazare to take on Modi. “Moreover, if you lead the fight, the middle class, which has more or less blinded itself to the horror of communalism just as ordinary Germans once did about anti -Semitism during the Nazi era, might just be forced to look beyond Modi’s carefully crafted image and recognise that communalism is at least as much an evil as corruption”. The country badly needs to rid itself of both corruption and communalism. “If you do that, Anna, you will have managed to deliver crippling blows to both the leading political parties in quick succession — to the Congress on corruption and to the BJP on communalism.”
No wonder then why Kuldip Nayyer, the senior most journalist of the time said that this was the worst holocaust he had ever seen after that of Germany!
The government in Gujarat exceeded all decent limits when it held out the beheading of Daniel Pearl as “perfect example”. It also blundered in threatening Anhad for holding a parallel meeting of the victims of the genocide not to speak of scores of instances of threat and manipulating investigation into the genocide by way of doctoring evidence. It was a bitter joke that of all the times Modi used the three days fast to preen over the US preparing to receive him as the next leader of India. He is terribly deceived as is his party BJP because there is no such move despite what the diplomatic notes are sent back to US. The notes also make it clear that Modi is involved in genocide. Now that Samantha Power is working from inside the administration and is on the National Security Council it would not be possible for Modi to pull wool over the eyes of the people. Power had recommended that President Obama declare no fly zone over Libya or else failure to do so would be “extremely chilling, deadly and indeed a stain on our collective conscience.” What she said in March 2011 proved her right in the overthrow of Gadaffi in October. How do the irracible optimists of the development in Gujarat justify the genocide and belief that the US would roll out a red carpet to welcome Modi. In the words of the title of Power’s book he is “a problem from hell”. She is like “an institutional memory bank on genocide”. It was her journalistic work in Darfur that compelled George Bush to describe the situation in Sudan as genocide. Modi and his cohorts can fool some for sometimes but not the whole world. For vote banks of biased Hindus at home Modi and his party can say what they like. However it is well known fact that genocides—“in places like Armenia, Nazi Germany, Cambodia and Rwanda — have occurred because governments averted their eyes and individuals made conscious choices not to intervene.” Gujarat also falls into that pattern. With this kind of situation prevailing in the US and the west and Power ticked to become next secretary of state when Clinton steps down soon, can Modi still get away with 2002 and visit the president in the Oval office?
On August 5, 2011 the US created a “Atrocities Prevention Board” precisely to stop genocide in the world. Though the official note does not mention Gujarat 2002 but it makes clear of the resolve of Power and others on the board: “In the decades since the world first pledged "never again," the U.S. response to mass atrocities and genocide has confronted several challenges. First, governmental engagement on atrocities and genocide often arrives late, when opportunities for prevention have been missed. Second, senior decision-makers are often not personally engaged because there is a government-wide assumption that there is little that can or will be done. And third, too few other international players step up to try to prevent atrocities, and come under little domestic pressure to do so. As a result, too often, we and the rest of the international community have later regretted not taking diplomatic, political, economic, legal, and military steps that might have prevented the loss of tens of thousands of lives.”
That such a board is not limited to the homeland alone is also made clear: “The directive recognizes that preventing mass atrocities is a responsibility that all nations share and that other countries must also be enlisted to respond to particular crises.”
This book mirrors in part what the Obama directive on Atrocities Prevention Board aims at: “We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.” Already the board has succeeded in getting Serbian extremists Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic arrested.
Power’s theme in her book is: Why do American leaders who vow "never again" repeatedly fail to stop genocide? With this kind of determination on her part will it be possible to expect her hand in glove with Modi’s as surely as the hands of Advani and Vajpayee were in the glove of Modi?
Modi would be harbouring illusion if he thinks that if he came to power in Delhi he can reach the shores of America because the US has already mentioned that in the newly established board. “In addition to the Presidential directive, which makes clear the level of priority attached to preventing mass atrocity, we are taking another important step forward in our effort to hold accountable human rights abusers by, for the first time, barring entry into the United States of persons who organize or participate in mass atrocities, war crimes, crimes against humanity, or other serious violations of human rights.”
And what could not make shameful to Modi or made Vajpayee pretend to feel how he would face the world, the US has taken care of. “As such, we will be able to more effectively shame those who are organizing widespread and systematic violence against civilians based on ethnicity, religion, or other protected characteristics.”
Modi had deliberately metastasiz-ed the fire incident of the compartment S6 of Sabarmati Express into an actual mass atrocity for which the US broard retrospectively looks into. “In banning would-be organizers of human rights violations as well as perpetrators, it allows the United States to act expeditiously before planned atrocities metastasize into actual ones.”
While the extra judicial killings of Sohrabuddin, Prajapati, Kauser Bi, Ishrat Jehan and others took place the US laws could not bar the entry of the perpetrators of thse crimes of fake encounter. More over the government of Gujarat and also the central government (at least in the case of Ishrat Jehan and three others) considered them terrorists out to kill Modi. But as the truth has belatedly dawned that they were killed at the instance of no other than Modi and his minister for home Amit Shah through the police of the state, the US has included these also in the category. Extra judicial killings also will now bar entry of Modi into the US. In the case of Sadiq Mehtar the governments of Gujarat and Maharashtra as well as Andhra Pradesh (ast least in the case of Sohrabuddin and Kauser Bi) are complicit in the crimes of prolonged arbitraty detention and forced disappearance. The ace encounter specialis of Maharashtra police Daya Naik had held Mehtar in prolonged arbitrary detention before he passed him on the the Gujarat police who kept him under illegal detention and then killed him. Both the government of Maharashtra and Gujarat have committed crimes of forced disappearance in the case of Sadiq Mehtar. “The proclamation [of President Obama] will also cover participants in serious human rights violations, such as prolonged arbitrary detention, forced disappearances.”The murder of Haren Pandya was extrajudicial killing and the escape of Mufti Sufiyan and family accused in that murder is nothing but forced disappearance.
This kind of involvement is taking unduly long time to come out on the surface but given the new disclosures it is clear that Modi presided over all these potential crimes which are turning out to be actual crimes. Hence the urgency that the national courts try them or the NGOs try for investigation and trial in an international court or agency or get the cases shifted to another country for trial.
If Americans and Israelis feel so strongly about those who deny holocaust like the Iranian president Ahmadenijad, what do they feel about the one who wrought it so craftily? Modi has denied the holocaust he wrought and he has continued till 2011 not just to cover up but perpetrate violence by way of liquidating potential witnesses against the crimes he is accused of and the atmosphere he has created and maintained till today. In this context has taken place the murder of Nadeem. Mallika Sarabhai says in this regard: “For whom was Nadeem Saiyed more of a hindrance? Was it the accused of Naroda Patiya and those behind the accused; or were it crooks in many garbs whose lies, deceit and dishonesty he was exposing through the hundreds of RTIs he had filed? Or was the larger nexus the same - those in cohorts to subvert justice for personal gain and power? The result is the same in any case.” Thus the vicious atmosphere and the degenerate system Mode has ushered in thrive and at least for now it looks even after ten years to persist. Who can redeem when the thumping majority at the polls backs him in succeeding polls, yet another is due next year.
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Indian Express June 11, 2002.
http://nvonews.com/2011/09/24/modis-fast-sadbhavana-is-established-by-following-raj-dharma/
Can Anna take on Modi please? Salil Desai. DNA.de September 21, 2011
http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column_can-anna-take-on-modi-please_1589650
Still Crusading, but Now on the Inside NYT March 29,2011
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/samantha_power/index.html
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Samantha-Power-to-be-next-Secretary-of-State-119112959.html#ixzz1cB0ethGM
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2011/08/samantha_power_obamas_anti-gen.html
http://communalism.blogspot.com/2011/11/nadeem-saiyed-yet-another-truth-seeker.html
Daily News and Analysis, Nov 6, 2011







Chapter 12
Blot and redemption
It is curious history that those who brought about infamy to India through the genocide in Gujarat do not feel that it was a blot and hence there is no need for redeeming the honour of the country. However, there are others who want to redeem the honour of the country by fixing the blame on the Hindu extremist ideology and its incarnation in Narendra Modi who conducted the notorious Gujarat laboratory experimentation of Hindutva ideology. According to this mindset Muslims can remain in India if they follow Hindu culture and declare and profess themselves as part of Hinduism as do the Jains and Sikhs. As Muslims have not done it therefore they are legitimate target of extermination. Muslims must leave the land if they do not accept their Hindu ancestry and subscribe to the culture and adopt ‘cultural nationalism’. Or, they would live at the sufferance of the Hindus as second class citizens. What the extremists among Hindus did was their version of Nazi concentration camp. What is even more disturbing there are enough extremists of this kind left who want to conduct the same type of laboratory experiment on a much larger scale across India! The brouhaha over Modi assuming power in Delhi is their passionate desire for eliminating minorities altogether. Their mindset reveals their admiration for a given target to be finished in time with military precision. There is no place for remorse. Morality is secondary to achieving objectives. Instant development is the façade they create and want others to buy this as a remedy to cure all evils. Arun Shourie remarked while releasing Tavleen singh’s book on her being politically incorrect, that if the Muslims do not stop clamouring for the implementation of the Sacchar commission recommendations, nobody can stop Modi from going to Delhi and assuming power there! Bal Thackeray sent a letter with his signature and through his son Udhav Thackeray the executive president of their party Shiv Sena. In that letter he held out a threat of an imminent civil war in the country if the Prime Minister went ahead and implemented the recommendations! Do these enhance the glamour of India? The two do not feel that it is a blot on the country where Muslims constitute the single largest minority and yet live far below the poverty lines and have slid down the human index appallingly where they are at a station far below the most downtrodden. Modi has gone further in opposing the recommendations he has not spent the allotted 15% for the minorities, especially the Muslims and returned the fund unused!
The extreme Hindutva tenet does not countenance woman with favour. The woman has suffered worst as in all violence, riots, domestic, societal and communal violence and war. The suffering caused directly by Modi has hit hardest the woman. She is she whether she is a Parsi, a Hindu or a Muslim. Even the most active in social life has her saga of suffering. This saga has become epical in narration when you come to Gujarat 2002. Their wold is their home. A riot or genocide, it devastates them. Women of Gujarat make the bulk of populace who were made to suffer most in the Gujarat genocide. Some are mute with sorrow dumb with numb mind while others have anguish and have courage and support to stand up to the challenge. However the suffering of the former is the worst as they could not articulate for fear of ignominy or just shock while the latter recoiled for their lost ones. “Significantly, these women who have turned out to be Modi's bete noirs are not activists but simple housewives, whose main concern was the well-being of their husbands and children, till they became victims of vendetta politics. Shweta's eyes go mist when she says her husband's name, and Zakia's tears are uncontrollable when she talks of the massacre. The wait for Azhar in Rupa's eyes, even today, can stir the most stone-hearted.” So runs the suffering of the widows of Haren Pandya, Zakia and the mother of Azhar. But the hundreds of others who have lost their husbands, sons, daughters, brothers and sisters, parents, is a sargaso sea of unspoken grief.
Independent India’s image was marred by the genocide of the Muslims in Gujarat 2002. There are many in India who are unequivocally clear that this was a very sad day in the history of the nation. The President of India KR Narayanan, Mallika Sarabhai, RB Sreekumar, Harsh Mander and many more like them. Those who were nurtured on the right wing Hindutva ideology or mindset were beyond redemption. They applauded Modi even when the genocide was in full swing.
L K Advani was inveterately committed to the philosophy that did not want Muslim to survive and so was the Prime Minister AB Vajpayee. He chided Modi to do his rajdharm but never even rapped his knuckles to reprimand him. Nay, he went to his party conclave and remarked that Muslims had problems living with their neighbours!
After the parliamentary delegation visited Gujarat an ally of the BJP Telgu Desam Party’s Yerran Reddy asked whether the state government had arrested antisocial elements in the aftermath of the strike call of BJP/VHP. Reddy said: “This was an important thing to have done because these elements go on a looting killing and robbing spree. I posed this question to the Gujarat chief secretary, home secretary and the director general of police but there was no answer.” (Indian Express, March 12, 2002) Even the President of India wrote to the Prime Minister reproaching him over what was taking place in Gujarat, Vajpayee kept silent. His home minister gave a clean chit to Modi. On Sunday March 3rd All India Radio broadcast a discussion critical of Gujarat government’s and the Centre’s handling of what was happening in Gujarat. On March 6th the Prime Minister’s Office put pressure on the Director General News who ordered an inquiry as to how the programme was cleared for broadcast. (Indian Express, March 9) Vajpayee government disallowed even a motion to mourn the death in brutal murder of the former Member of Parliament, Ahsan Jafri.
In contrast to these die hard communal minded there were many others who valued the honour of the country more than communal politics and were conscientious. One such was so much disturbed that he would have drawn a gun on Modi to save India from the blot. The Marathi intellectual and famed dramatist Vijay Tendulkar was speaking before students of a Mumbai school when they asked him what he would do if he had a gun. Pat came his reply that he would shoot and kill the chief minister of Gujarat. Instead of feeling any shame over what he had brought about, Narendra Modi challenged him to shoot! He proffered a gun ready for the job! This was as cussed and brazen as Modi offering himself to the central government to hang him for killing Sohrabuddin. It is most astounding that what he said in 2007 electioneering did not wake the people who again elected his party in office. This has given a ruse to the BJP to justify his rule and even admire his achievement. Some of them simply surrendered their conscience to him like the defense minister of India George Fernandes. He remarked in the aftermath of the genocide that women had always been raped, killed and burnt alive. What was new in the case of Gujarat!
Despite such depravity openly voiced and acted on there were illustrious cases of the sons of India who valued the honour of the country more than chauvinism. There were even police officers who had been inducted into service in the communally disturbed decade of the eighties and nineties. They had seen stark violence and brutality in the name of religion and wanted to prevent it and save the country from the stigma.
Sanjiv Bhatt was in charge of the intelligence wing of the government and his office was flooded with reports of how the crowd was gathering in Meghaninager with intent to attack Gulbarg society. He sent the reports to the DGP K Chakravorthi as well as to the Commissioner of police Ahmadabad, PC Pande for action. Pande showed no concern for what was taking place at the Gulberg society. Bhatt knew what would result in the dangerous build up of the fanatic Hindu crowd and wanted to prevent what would be a blot for India: “Then I went to the office of DGP Chakravarti and told him to somehow prevail upon Pande to at least announce curfew in Naroda and Meghani Nagar. After much dithering, Pande announced curfew sometime post noon. But the order existed only on paper. On the ground it was never implemented. The mob at Gulberg society was not dispersed until 4.30 pm.” This is most unfortunate because Bhatt had finally spoken to the chief minister of what was taking place at the Gulberg society. On the top of it the chief minister was directly in contact with police officers and extremists at the site. He twiddled with his thumb!
By evening more than a thousand innocent Muslims were killed at the two places of Naroda Patia, Gulberg society and their environs. That is what the aim of the strike call of BJP and VHP was for. “Since the curfew was never imposed, the crowd at Gulberg kept multiplying,” Bhatt elaborates. “Finally, when I saw that Pande was not budging at all, I made Chakravarthi speak to Pande on the phone. But to my utter shock I found Pande was still not willing to act,” “It was at this point that I called up OP Singh (Modi’s personal secretary) and spoke to him. I explained the gravity of the situation at Gulberg Society to him and told him to communicate immediately to the chief minister that if the police didn’t act immediately, the mob would set the society on fire and kill dozens of Muslims including former Congress MP Ahsan Jafri.” “At this point I got convinced,” Bhatt told SIT member AK Malhotra, “that Modi had really meant what he had said the night before and his message had percolated down to a large section of the police machinery.” All this Bhatt had told off the record to Malhotra in January in 2010 because SIT had not undertaken a criminal investigation against Modi per se. He tactfully avoided giving in writing because it was preliminary inquiry and not an investigation into a registered crime charged against Modi. Of course he chose to give affidavits in response to the case that Jakiya Jafri had filed in the SC against Modi and 61 others.
That upped the ante against Modi.
Bhatt had told this off record to Malhotra leaving enough space and time for realization to sink in the SIT or the Gujarat government as to how enormous was the crimes committed and so blatantly! Gulbarg society massacre was the personal vendetta of Modi against Ahsan Jafri for opposing him in the by election he had contested only days before the genocide. (Even Modi’s close in arms Babu Bajrangi also had taken off time from Naroda Patia blood shedding to reach at Gulberg to take part in the attack. A State Intelligence Bureau officer Bharwad was sending in intelligence report of how there was steady rise in the murderous crowds with trishul stuck in the red cloth around waist and some carrying even fire arms brought from neighbouring areas for several hours before the final assault on the house of Jafri. They took full four hours to climax the blitzkrieg)
Nothing could sink in their minds for the genocide was a foregone conclusion. They were in the second phase of covering up what would be surely a blot. Hence there was no remorse let alone any sympathy for the bereaved families of the Muslims. Bhatt had told off the record facts many months before the SIT submitted its report (written by Malhotra of SIT, chaired by Raghvan, and the third member Paramvir Singh having resigned) in May 2010, the SC judgment of September 12, 2011 and the resultant cause a célèbre of September 17-19albeit with a misnomer of a sadhbhavna fast for peace, harmony and brotherhood. Since his telling this the SIT has come to conclusion that there is not enough prosecutable evidence against Modi (or Pande, either, for he is wallowing in the post retirement luxury).
To rub salt in the wounds of all the victims and primarily Bhatt, here, the Gujarat government arrested him on Friday September 30, 2011. The police also searched his house. They went back again on the next day, October 1, and wanted to search his house but his wife Shweta confronted them and demanded a fresh warrant. Still they searched the houses of his relatives as they wanted to get hold of the two affidavits Bhatt had submitted to the SC. They got fresh search warrant and ransacked the house. This misadventure of searching the affidavits was undertaken while the stated pretext was the fact that the police raided the house in connection with the FIR lodged by KD Pant. But those affidavits were not given to SIT which was notorious in leaking such vital documents to the state government for its speedy preparation for defence against the incriminating circumstances involving Modi. In this nefarious work Modi had used with impunity the additional advocate general of Gujarat Tushar Mehta who would send it to RSS ideologue Gurumurthy who then would ferret out sharp legal points for defence of Modi and his party. This is the house that Modi built; this is the chief minister who used his administration clandestinely. This is the SIT that leaked the real time information to the additional advocate general, this is the additional advocate general who passed the information to ideologue Gurumurthy, this is the ideologue who let S Ram to peep in. it goes on and on.
Bharwad sent the reports to Bhatt who sent it to Ahmadabad police. Full four hours the police department did nothing. It is a sure sign that the instructions of Modi of February 27 had sunk well into their minds and hearts. Bharwad even sent a report on how Jafri came out and surrendered to the mob which caught his head in a sandsa a contraption to catch stray dogs for elimination.
The gory end of his bête noire must have given sadistic pleasure but Modi cold bloodedly said about it: “To the best of my recollection, I was informed in the law and order review meeting held in the night about the attack on Gulberg Society in Meghani Nagar area and Naroda Patiya.”
For Modi these inhuman deeds and criminal acts of cover up do not constitute a dishonor to India. But to Bhatt and a host of others they do. It was for this therefore that Bhatt spoke to OP Singh personal secretary of Modi and informed him of the above details. And, then, told Modi himself. How could these details escape the home minister Modi under whom Singh directly worked? His complicity is well established by the circumstantial evidence even when the phone records are purportedly destroyed in haste. Even so whatever records still exist shows that between 12.38 pm to quarter to four the police were fully aware of what was taking place at the Gulberg society. Modi was in touch with the police and extremist Hindu leaders between 11 am and 4.20 pm. Thus for more than five hours there was a crowd of more than 10,000 gathered there for the assault and yet no reinforcement was sent there nor had the police stationed there taken any step to prevent violence. They did not make any effort to intervene and disperse the crowd. Police officers KG Erda and MK Tandon were very much present and one of them had a striking force at command and ready.
The intelligence field reports of violence against Muslims were neglected because of the meeting at night of February 27th. Tehelka which unearthed many important facts also found out the driver of Bhatt Tarachand Yadav who drove Bhatt to the police headquarters from where Bhatt and the DGP went to Modi’s residence in the latter’s car for late night meeting. Bhatt’s driver trailed them. Then he took Bhatt to his house for him to sleep.
There was a constable attached to Bhatt when he was in SIB, he was KD Panth who had gone on record in asserting that he had gone to the house of the chief minister with his boss Bhatt on February 27, 2002. But he went back on his words and in his FIR of June 16, 2011 accused Bhatt of coercing him earlier to toe the line of Bhatt on attending the meeting. Panth also asserts that in fact he had told in April to the SIT that he had availed leave in February 2002. Bhatt’s lawyer IS Syed says that the cops were searching Panth’s affidavit in the house of Bhatt on September 30 and October 1 2011. It would mean that the desperation on their part was the result of their being ignorant of what Panth had stated therein and wanted to destroy it. In contrast to them was the position of Bhatt whose wife remarked: “Police have asked for 14 days remand, why? My basic question is why is he being treated like a common criminal? He is such a big officer and what has be done? Just spoken the truth?”
Her agonized questions are very poignant as they hinge upon the most crucial aspect of the whole career of Modi as the chief minister of his state. He had instructed the police to let the Hindu mobs take revenge on the Muslim and teach them such a lesson they would never have courage to look up to the Hindus anymore. This was explicit order that the genocide let loose upon the Muslim must go full steam for three days and no one should stop it or help the victims. But Haren Pandya became the first man to tell the truth to the world outside the Gujarat make believe world. The more Modi tries to search and destroy all the clues that ultimately lead to him as the perpetrator of the genocide the more he enters into the deep water of his guilt.
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Gujarat riots: AIR man paid the price too. Indian Express. March 9, 2002.
Tehelka Magazine, Vol 8, Issue 7, Dated 19 Feb2011
Sunday Free Press October 2, 2011
http://www.theweekendleader.com/Causes/721/Save-Bhatt.html
October 5
Mahesh Bhatt “I spoke to Sanjiv the evening he was arrested, asking that since the worst had happened, what he needed to tell the world outside. He said it was now for the courts to ensure that the rule of law was imposed in Gujarat and the nation.”
Retired DGP and colleague of Sanjeev Bhatt, R B Shreekumar alleged, “The arrest of Sanjeev Bhatt is the peak of the policy followed by the Modi government since the conception, organisation, mobilisation and perpetration of an anti-Muslim carnage in 2002. Of all the actions, this is the most atrocious.” “After the 2002 carnage, the Modi government started terrorising the bureaucracy, including the senior police officer who dared to speak the truth.”

“If electoral victory is the license for violating the Constitution, then our freedom and democracy is under serious threat,” he added.
Prof Apoorvanand from Delhi University said Sanjiv Bhatt’s arrest is another recent example of how Narendra Modi Govt has been trying to influence the probe into the 2002 riots.






















Chapter 13
Genocide and Gender
The word genocide is etymologically derived from Greek but there is Aryan trace of its origin too. The Aryan root is gene which means to beget, produce, to be born. The Greek word genus means birth, race, stock, kind and as a verb it implies to beget, to produce. Genital is Latin in origin and it pertains to animal generation. The suffix – cide means to kill. All this implies that genocide is gender based action. It is well researched and documented fact of the genocide in Gujarat 2002 that the women suffered the most. They were not only insulted, raped, burnt and killed but also made pregnant to carry the burden of the rapists. They were made to bear children which would show their humiliation, subjugation and assert the potential of the rapists. Some of them were driven out of their houses along with family members and their fetuses were yanked out and killed.
The Hindutva forces choose their time and place because they have all the resources to undertake pogroms, create riots, or conduct genocide. For example it is well known that riots started on August 23, 2008 in Kandhamal. The pretext was the assassination of the Hindu extremist leader Laxmannanda Saraswati. Although the Maoist claimed that they had killed him because he was harassing them but the Hinutva forces targettted Christians and blamed them. Godhra was also deliberately and schematically chosen. The most conspiratorial of the RSS leaders, Indresh Kumar attended the funeral of Saraswati. He was also the man who insidiously suggested to Sunil Joshi, Pragyasingh Thakur, Swami Aseemanand and others to kill larger numbers of Muslims and hide in temple to escape law. It also came to light during Malegaon bomb blast of 2008 that Lt Col Purohit had fewer AK 47s but had the information of how many Muslims were in each state and the guns were not sufficient to finish them. Sadhvi Pragyasingh Thakur wondered why so few Muslims were killed at Bhiku chowk in Malegaon. These examples show that killing larger and larger number of Muslims or Christians has been there in the planning the Hindutva forces had prepared. In the case of Gujarat it was very elaborate.
The rape and murder and then burning the women to destroy proof was well thought of conspiracy. "Without preparedness, a communal riot is not a real pogrom and there can be no final solution either.” This remark of Modi points out both the features that detailed preparation is absolutely necessary and that he wanted to aim at “final solution”. That is nothing but genocide. That primarily includes killing of Muslim women to stop them from producing children, killing their fetuses, their children. That was what exactly happened. It is also pertinent to remember that “final solution” is a video film on Gujarat genocide which Rakesh Sharma has made. Though Modi made the remark ipso facto but it surely looks back to 2002. He has the inveterate habit of referring to his complicity. Perhaps his guilty conscience forces him to say because his subconscious overcomes his self consciousness at times. Indian Express of June, 11, 2002 had quoted him saying that “The journalists who cover Gujarat...may meet the fate of Daniel Pearl..Cover communal riots at your own risk.” After winning the election he was sheer hubris when he thundered at Rajdeep Sardesai on December 15, 2002: “What insecurity are you talking about? People like you should apologize to the five crore Gujaratis for asking such questions. Have you not learnt you lesson? If you continue like this, you will have to pay the price”.
Similarly Modi had closed the relief camps on July 1st when a few weeks earlier the Prime Minister had dashed off a letter highly critical of him regarding the condition in the camps. Then Modi went to see Vajpayee who tersely told him to “concentrate on relief and rehabilitation work.”(Indian Express June, 14, 2002). He had surreptitiously ordered closure of eight more relief camps as the Hindu newspaper reported on June 18th. Surprisingly he could confront Sardesai or even the Prime Minister but why has he never bothered to touch upon the issue of the mass rapes of Muslim women and girls? Why have the papers and their editors never bothered to corner him over this aspect of the genocide? It could be it was tremendously shocking and really a cause for bad name for the country that both the sides kept silent over the issue. It could also be that the police did not record the rapes and did not prosecute the rapists. Partly it could also be that the Muslim women who survived rapes and murder and mayhem they certainly and understandingly kept mum because they would be further troubled by their own folks at home and they would be humiliated over it again in the future. In all this the government of India played a major role in cover up in the initial days. The government was in the hands of the Hindutva party BJP. It did not allow Amnesty International to visit Gujarat and find out the full extent of the violation of human rights. This would have fully exposed the greatest amount of suffering the women went through because of mass rapes, parade of naked women, their breast being mutilated, and their humiliation by the extremist Hindu mobs who tortured them for hours together by encircling them before burning them alive. The Prime Minister also urgently sent chairman Mr Verma of National Human Rights Commission and the attorney general Soli Sorabji to forestall the visit of United Nation’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson.
Of course the international community knew the gravity of the situation. The International Initiative for Justice in its report of December 2003 wrote “What happened in Gujarat has also violated several international laws and treaties, including the Convention Against Genocide, and can be defined as a Crime Against Humanity. The serious nature of these attacks, and their contravention of international standards of human rights, warrants an international response.”
The two reasons why not much could have been done by way of international inquiry into the genocide were India’s reluctance to allow interference in its internal affair, the second was that it was a functional democracy and therefore its courts and commission were taking care of inquiries and the judicial process. It is precisely here that the centre government played havoc because the two most important portfolios were in the hands of the Hindutva self confessed volunteers of RSS, the Prime Minister Vajpayee and his deputy PM as well as home minister Advani. In fact Advani was readily issuing clean chit to the chief minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi. Thus in the initial days when the rapes of women and their violation of human rights could have been fully investigated and gauged evidence was systematically destroyed or suppressed. Furthermore, IIJ observed: “Much of the post-pogrom activist discourse in India has centred largely around issues of democratic and civil rights of the Muslim community in general, with little specific focus on the rights of women belonging to the Muslim community. For activists grounded in broadly left wing and ‘class-based’ politics, issues of economic rights have been paramount, and constitute the primary lens through which the pogrom is understood. Even though some reports spoke about the sexual violence that took place in Gujarat, the specific location of ‘woman’ in these political projects is not articulated as a matter of concern. It is no coincidence that out of the numerous fact-finding reports that came out immediately after the pogrom, only one focused specifically on women. Many of the civil liberty groups, anti-communalism groups which have been the most active have not been concerned with foregrounding feminist concerns about the centrality of sexual violence as an inherent and intrinsic part of the Hindutva project as indeed of all projects that seek to forge collective political identities (like ones based on religion, ethnicity, caste) in terms of ‘us’ and ‘them’ boundaries.”
Sexual violence and outrage was already aboard the Sabarmati Express as it was passing through Godhra station. The Hindu mob aboard the train lowered their pants and exhibited their genitalia to the Muslim women of Signal Falia that led to stone pelting from the train and also from outside. Indeed it is also a fact that a Muslim girl Sophia and her sister were waiting for another train to take them back to Vadodra when the temple volunteers tried to abduct here. Her father and the Muslim tea vendors rushed to rescue her.
It is queer that the volunteers for temple building went to Ajodhya and on their return should exhibit their genetalia to the Muslim women who were doing morning chores all around the railway tracks in their shanty town of Godhra. And then some of the Hindutva volunteers for building a temple at Ajodhya should abduct a Muslim girl. It was the enemy of Ram, Ravana, who had abducted Sita. Why did it have to happen inversely at Godhra?
The popular theory is that the Muslims abduct Hindu girls and marry them and produce more children. Silly as it is but it is based on a popular misconception of Muslims being more potent as they eat meat. Therefore, the stone pelting at the vehicle carrying animals for slaughter for the up coming Muslim festival and burning of it in Juhapura on October 30. 2011has a compendium of motives. However, the stone pelting on February 27, 2002 was on account of the attempted abduction of the Muslim girl and the Hindu youths’ exhibition of their genetalia. This vortex of motive and action is differently explained.
There are those who say that the Hindu male has been humiliated down the ages and therefore he was aroused and wanted to assert himself and avenge for he humiliation of all the past years of history. This does not fit in the genocide because it was not prepared for any sexual jealousy. That Muslim produce more is their ethos. They mostly live in their ghettos. That Hindu girls elope with Muslim youths or marry them is balanced by Hindu boys who elope and marry Muslim girls. There are no Muslims who make it a profession of earning money to trace the runaways and bring back the girl to the fold. Babu Bajrangi does it for a high premium. He does not do it for any pride in his race or religion either. He does it for money. He gets a huge amount for it. But it was he who most ferociously killed Muslim women and their fetuses in Naroda Patia. There is a method in his madness and that is genocide. Inverse happening gnederwise was shaping there also.
There was a Muslim youth of Sangmeshwar area of Malegaon, Maharshtra, who had eloped with a Hindu girl in 2001 to Gujarat and married her there. On February 28, 2002 they took shelter in the house of Ahsan Jafri. When the tension was rising and the hour of the assault on Gulberg society neared the couple ran out to safety somewhere. The Hindu girl lived with her fellow town Muslim boy and then after some years deserted him and married another. Gender can not be encompassed as it resists every other thing that is extraneous. The runaways of Malegaon survived. Most of the women who suffered there had perhaps lived a more normal life and were occupied with their quotidian life of domestic chores and had no time for any other work. None of them might have even thought of ever eloping or marrying outside their fold. They suffered most becase they were women, either they were raped and burnt alive, or they had their children snatched away from their lap and killed, or their husbands or their brothers or parents. Genocide is not an act of queasy discrimination of what is what individually. It is just a group determined to wipe out the other and women come easy as they are the source of future generation and the caretaker of the present and home makers ever. The genocidal instinct was against this.

To the foregoing is the epigram of the Sibyl (The Waste Lan), Kauser Bi, wife of Sohrabuddin. She was raped for days on end in the torure outsourced by Amit Shah and in chain of command by Modi at the bungalow of Jirawala in Ahmadabad. First it was “a crime without a name”. What we dreaded most came true and then it became “the crime with a Name.” Her brother in law submitted a habeas corpus and the police gave it a name, murder (read continued genocide). This black deed was a “problem from hell”. She was burnt in the inferno that Vanzara had elaborately prepared for her much after the establishment of International Criminal Court on July 1,2002 and hence legitimate case for taking it to the ICC.

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Threatened Existence: A Feminist Analysis of the Genocide in Gujarat . Report by the International Initiative for Justice (IIJ) December 2003
Gujarat riots: Retired tribunal judges testify - India - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Gujarat-riots-Retired-tribunal-judges-testify/articleshow/6489436.cms#ixzz0yWvKkusF
Pandya murder, Sohrab encounter linked: Johri to SC TOI Sep 5, 2010
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Guj-cops-were-reluctant-to-quiz-Tulsiram-Chargesheet/articleshow/6796471.















Chapter 14
Personal vendetta of Modi against Sanjiv Bhatt: failure of democracy
It is not unexpected that the chief minister of Gujarat should use his administration so blatantly against individual officers who have tried to be upright in their duty to the state. Just because Narendra Modi is an elected leader does it give him so much leverage that he could subvert the functioning of the state machinery including the judiciary? Further does it allow his henchmen to issue bomb threats so flagrantly against even those who want to bring peace and justice to the state subject that suffered genocide? On October 17, 2011 the session court released Sanjiv Bhatt on bail in the case that KD Panth brought against him. The court found complaint of Panth ‘shaky’, even so Bhatt had to go through harrowing time. Even his family suffered distress as the police went to search his house and of his relatives relentlessly. If this is not witch hunt what else is it? This is on account of his telling the truth of what the chief minister had told in the night of February 27, 2002. Then came even more disturbing details that Modi may be linked to the murder of Haren Pandya and Sohrabuddin. That it was not Asghar Ali who had killed Haren Pandya but Tulsiram Prajapati who in turn was killed in yet another fake encounter to remove all the traces that point in the direction of no other than Modi.
If Modi thinks that the best defence for him is offence then he has committed many and continues to commit even more. His henchmen in the administration got another pretext of continuing the harassment. On Saturday October 22 another case was filed in the additional judicial magistrate in Ahmadabad against Bhatt. The charges include giving false information, avoiding summon and absconding. ACP NC Patel lodged a complaint in the court that Bhatt was summoned by Patel in similar case of Panth on September 20, 2011 but Bhatt avoided the meeting. Bhatt allegedly said he had to give testimony to the Nanavat-Mehta commission. Next, the commission informed Patel that there was no meeting scheduled. In this way the government does not want to cease its vendetta against Bhatt. In the same way the central government also has not acted firmly in defending or giving relief to Bhatt who is from IPS all India cadres. When the SC was hearing a case in which Bhatt had given important evidence which went against Modi why did not the SC prevent his arrest or at least stay it till the apex court had decided what to do. Bhatt has also appealed the SC to try the case out of Gujarat. Thus these developments have come home to roost. All these add up to further delay in the trial of the cases of genocide and thus justice is awfully delayed.
In his affidavit of April 14, 2011 to SC Sanjiv Bhatt makes it clear that he is not directly a party to the law suit filed by Zakia Jafri against Modi and 63 others including cabinet ministers and police officers, etc. He says that his affidavit “discloses facts which could be crucial to the determination of the issues” before the SC in Leave Petition (Criminal) 1088 of 2008. He was the deputy commissioner of state intelligence from 1999 to September 2002 and looked after internal security of Gujarat which included that of the chief minister. As a nodal officer in charge of intelligence he was receiving “very sensitive information pertaining to the various acts of commission and omission attributable to certain high ranking functionaries of the state” and “the larger conspiracy and official orchestration behind the subsequent Gujarat Riots of 2002” and “real-time leakage of information from within the SIT”. In 2009 and 2010 he gave information in regard to the investigation being made in the case of the Zakia Jafri’s complaint and not in connection with any investigation under the Code of Criminal Procedue. He claims that he has given information even about the cover up operation going on in the case of the writ petition 221 of 2002. The SIT was not living up to the enormous trust SC had reposed in it.
Bhatt says that what he had deposed was leaked out and next dates were postpone and in the manwhile the government tried to brief him what to say.
The forgoing development is a long sequel of the kind of honest work of maintaining professional ethics Bhatt had already shown in 2003 and is not flinching from doing even when he was kept in the Gaikward Haveli station on September 30, 2011 and subsequent judicial custody.
He refused to bow down before the “sultan of governance” because the sultan was no sultan but a despot and the kind of ‘governance’ he had provided was devoid of democratic spirit and morality. What the Tatas and Ambanis saw in him was the motive of self interest. Shahsi Tharoor has said as a nation we are shameless. Swami Agnivesh gives an illustration: “On the second day, we were to stay for the night at a place called Eshwar Bhavan in the Ahmedabad’s Navrangpura area. There, we were accosted by a group of well-dressed Hindu fundamentalists. They told us, point blank, that we were most welcome to stay in the Bhavan but our Muslim colleagues must go stay in a masjid. We said, “We are all together, we are here just to ask everyone to stop this madness.” They simply insisted that Muslims must be separated from the rest. When we said this was not acceptable, they warned us that if the Muslims stayed they would blast bombs at the site.” That was April 1, 2002. Since then more such instances of moral turpitude have taken place pointing a finger at Modi the architect of the genocide. The chief minister sat on a fast for three days in the name of sadhbhavna, peace, harmony and brotherhood. Only the Hindi word tamasha or nautanki can do justice to the vaudeville of Modi. All this was done in the name of salvaging his image from the genocide he had organized and supervised. So when the media people asked him during his fast 17-19 September if he would own up moral responsibility to 2002 he parried: “What is moral responsibility?”
This also would go down in history as the giant who is affronted by silly and trivial questions raised before his august position of state executive chief whose words are laws for the land. Even the central government has not done its duty as the Coalition Against Genocide said: “We stand steadfast behind Mr. Bhatt and are committed to launching an international campaign on his behalf in the absence of corrective action by the Central Government to ensure his safety, and to bring an end to this vengeful retaliation against him.” All this have come up thanks to the Goliath that everyone has allowed Modi to become, the Tatas, Ambanis and no less than the central government itself.
Modi has behaved as a dictator. When the head constable Neelesh Brahmbhatt praised Bhatt he was dismissed from job in May this year. Why did not the state governor ask explanation from the government as to why on such a flimsy ground Brahmbhatt was victimized? Even the central government could have acted firmly in this regard but they have chosen to remain silent. Does democracy allow this kind of willful vindictive behavior of the government head who conducted genocide and continues to paralyze the free and fair discharge of duties of its officers? Or, who uses it to carry on his own defence of the accusations of genocide crimes in such a flagrant manner?
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http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_panth-case-io-files-court-complaint-against-sanjiv-bhatt_1602120
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-05-08/ahmedabad/29522212_1_ips-officer-sanjiv-bhatt-gujarat-police-naresh-brahmbhatt


Chapter 15
Godhra incident
The Prime Minister of India AB Vajpayee called Godhra an accident. He was speaking in the Parliament at 4.30 pm. He also described it as a result of slogan shouting.
With the passage of time much clarity will come to what happened on February 27, 2002 when a fire in S6 coach of the Sbarmati Express killed 58 people. Full ten years after the demolition of the Babri mosque at Ajodhya in Utter Pardesh on December 6, 1992, the Hindu extremists were still unable to build up a grand temple for Lord Ram. The movement to build it was in full swing thanks to the propaganda and BJP government which came to power because of the communalization of politics in the aftermath of the demolition and riots that engulfed the whole country. The extremists among the Hindu right wanted to start building the temple from March 15, 2002. Without bloodshed there was no other way to make the movement a success. Therefore the fire incident in the compartment was turned into an attack of Muslims on the Hindu volunteers for temple building. They called strike for the following day in Gujarat and a call to shut down India the day after. This was sure recipe for riots. As the conspiracy was already hatched what would be riot was turned into genocide. All this happened at the instance of the chief minister who changed the burning of the train compartment from an accident of fire to a terrorist attack by Muslims on Hindus.
The train had left Ahmadabad on February 22, 2002. There were many volunteers of the Hindu right groups who wanted to go to Ajodhya. They behaved unruly all the way is clear from their attacks on the Muslim passengers, tea and snack vendors. It acquired serious law and order situation at Dahod, Gujarat, Rudauli and Dariabad in Utter Pardesh. They had thrown out a Muslim passenger from the running train and mauled Muslim women which resulted in bleeding. The Hindi daily Jan Morcha of Faizabad carried a report on February 25 how the volunteers would force Muslims to say Jai Shri Ram. They also shouted extremely threatening slogans which had nothing to do with the temple, like dudh mango to kheer denge, Kashmir mango to cheer denge. (Ask milk and we will serve you pudding, but ask for Kashmir we will tear you to pieces.) It is tragic irony that two days later the extremists would really tear the Muslims to pieces in Gujarat. First they would quarter them and then kill them and burn their victims. In many cases they would burn them alive by setting them on fire. Their victims had nothing to do with Kashmir or the movement for azaadi or freedom there. An interesting aspect is that the chief minister of UP Rajnath Singh was also the home minister but he did not send any report of the unruly behavior of the temple building volunteers or karsevaks. As he is from BJP and articulate in “cultural nationalism” of RSS he suppressed this lawless behavior. He was duty bound to inform Gujarat police to alert them of the violent behavior of the passengers of the train that was going to enter Gujarat state.
On the return journey, the train reached Godhra at 7.30 in the morning of February 27. The volunteers for building temple beat up Muslims on the platform and would drive away anyone from that community who would try to enter the compartment selling tea. They tried to abduct a Muslim girl Sophia which the vendors struggled against to prevent. There was stone pelting and as a result the windows were shut and most of the doors were stacked up with luggage to prevent people from entering, a usual practice in India when the trains are overcrowded.
When the train left Godhra station someone pulled the chain to stop the train perhaps because many of the volunteers had not boarded the train as they had tarried at the platform. The train stopped at the place called Signal Falia on that place where the track was on a raised stretch of land, about twelve feet above the ground level. There was a sudden fire incident which engulfed coach S6. Fifty eight people died and many were injured. Not all were volunteers for the temple movement. But the official or Modi’s version is that all were so. One of them was the wife of the station master who was carrying tiffin box in hand. The official version also states that a crowd of 2000 had gathered there and burnt the compartment although it was impossible even for 200 to gather there in front of the particular compartment. Moreover the track and the ground gave no evidence of remains of oil or burn. When petrol is thrown from outside there is also some of it falling on the ground and catching fire and also burning the sides of the train. As the windows were all shut there was mark of the fire coming and burning the windows and the flames moving upward from the windows. But no burn marks below the windows. The citizens’ tribunal found this when it inspected the train. So it was most likely an accidental fire due to the volunteers cooking food on board the train as there was rice and other grains scattered on the floor. The collector of Godhra Ms Jayanthi Ravi who reached there first declared it a fire accident and she maintained it till 7.30 in the evening. Her statement was repeatedly shown on the official channels and Indian government radio.
Then entered the chief minister at 2.30 in the afternoon. He had meetings with his colleagues and party men. At 7.3 pm he went on the air and announced that Godhra was a result of conspiracy of ISI and he also blamed the local Ghanchi Muslims. He described them as criminals. He gave a call of bandh or strike on the following day, February 28. His party BJP and its two extreme wings VHP and Bajrang Dal also called for a strike. The collector went public that it was an accident and she also advised him not to take the bodies in the same train all the way to Ahmadabad for it would be too revolting and would produce large scale violence. But the chief minister was the catalyst agent of change and he changed everything from ground zero. Till this day there is no definite proof that it was the result of Muslim entering the S6 compartment and burning it. In the first place the kar sevaks or volunteers for temple were well armed and would not let anyone enter with a can of petrol and burn the train. The Forensic Science Laboratory’s Spot Investigation Report No 2 ruled out that anyone could throw inflammable material from outside and burn the train. It found no evidence of fire on the bottom below the windows and the ground under it.
Independent investigation has confirmed what is known to many in India: “Although it has been repeatedly suggested that the burning of the Sabarmati Express in Godhra on 27 February 2002 triggered the violence against Muslims in Gujarat, much evidence reveals the planned nature of these attacks and casts doubts on the representation of events that occurred on 27th February. Reports show a systematic attempt to identify Muslims in various areas by singling out their homes and establishments much ahead of that date. They also reveal that arms had been procured and distributed widely to the public as part of the plan to target the Muslim community. What happened on the 27th of February 2002 was but a pretext to carry out the carnage that was long planned, a flashpoint that facilitated it and gave it a rationale.” It confirms that Godhra was made to happen for a larger conspiracy. In other words it was maneuvered to suit as an excuse for the plan of diabolic reaction that was alredy ready like the Kandhamal massacre of Christians
There is a rich connotation in what Swami Agnivesh says and the laugh of Vajpayee: “What I saw on TV and read in TEHELKA gave me goose bumps. A man is boasting how he slit a pregnant woman’s womb; men are talking about hoisting a dead pig atop a mosque. And these men are roaming free. This genocide, and the state’s total complicity… we had sensed all this. But still there was reason to give [them] the benefit of doubt. But after the TEHELKA report, I am beginning to feel that Godhra itself was staged.
“About the same time, along with Inder Gujral, Harsh Mander and others, I met Vajpayee at Panchvati. I requested Vajpayee for a white paper on Godhra. I said, find out exactly who was responsible for Godhra. The PM just laughed and said the inquiry was on. Early in April, when the rioting was at its peak, Vajpayee had expressed regret over the carnage, and had famously wondered how he would face the world. He had admonished Modi in this speech and reminded him of his raj dharma (duty as the chief minister). Our esteem for Vajpayee went up. We thought he was one truthful person. We thought he would remove Modi from the chief ministership. Nothing happened. Later, in Goa, Vajpayee took a U-turn, and began to praise Modi. After that statement he was totally exposed.”
As independent observers have pointed out the syllogistic logic, that if the Muslims wanted to burn the train they could have set fire to all or any section of it, so why did not other compartments catch fire. Why would they choose S6 which alone burnt in the fire accident? Stopping the train to burn just one particular is illogical, that too which had most inconveniently come to a halt at such a height! The logical conclusion is that the kar sevaks were burning a stove which must have exploded inside causing a fire and then somebody must have pulled the chain to stop the train. So many were killed because the doors and windows were tightly shut to prevent stone being thrown inside in retaliation for the abduction of the girl Sophia, or the doors were shut to prevent outsiders from entering the crowded train where there wasn’t any more space.
A close examination of the Coach, and the manner in which it caught fire established (a fact that the FSLR report thereafter confirmed) that the “fire came from inside. We have seen an inner side of the coach. The intensity of the fire was such that even the iron rods, the seats, the fans were all burnt to such an extent that we found them twisted and molten out of shape…..” This is quite unlikely if inflammable material is thrown from outside into the compartment that was all shurt, lock stock and barrel.
It is also highly suspicious that the records of the train movement were doctored by Rajesh Asthana and Noel Parmer. Why should they do it?
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Jan Morcha (Hindi newspaper from Faizabad) February 25, 2002.
‘The whole of the BJP is debased’ Vol 4, Issue 44, Dated Nov 17, 2007
Chapter 16
Newtonian law: mapping the mind of the heir apparent to Delhi sultanate
Modi has acquired the notoriety of applying the third law of Newton in human affairs. In the natural sciences one-to-one connection can be verified. But in the human relation this is rather difficult. For example Godhra attack led to the pogroms. But the attempted abduction of a girl by the kar sevaks from near Godhra or the brawl on the railway platform between caterers and kar sevaks is deliberately not brought forth as the antecedent. But the consequences they must have produced. However, human beings can stagger the response according to the choice of time and place. That is what set the natural science in a different category. Even the most gruesome incident of the volunteers of temple or kar sevaks throwing a Muslim from the running train, in this case the Sabarmati express, did not figure in any explanation of any Newtonian law.
The extreme Hindutva forces have a long history of “retaliation”—a euphemism for prepared and long planned rioting. In Malegaon of Maharashtra a Hindutva leader demanded more aniseed in his paan, betal leaves covered with catechu, lime and spices along with betal nut pieces. When the Muslim vendor said “enough” he became so irate that he pulled him out of the kiosk and beat him up and created a brawl and the crowd that gathered there in his support. The attackers went to the adjoining power loom sheds and sizing and burnt it. Such insignificant and cheap thing can be made the cause of riots! In the famous anti reservation agitation of upper caste Hindus in Gujarat in the eighties of the last century the Hindutva groups veered it into a Hindu Muslim riot which claimed hundreds of lives. Such antecedents are galore. But Modi did choose the fire accident because of this established tradition of going for the Muslims when the atmosphere is created, when the tinder box needs just a burning match stick.
Even when the antecedents are not ‘cheap’ but culturally loaded there is a cunning way of turning it into rioting. Maharashtra borders on Gujarat and the Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray claims that it was in Mahrasthra that the Hindutva experiment was first carried out and Gujarat followed. His claims like the demolition of Babri that his militia carried out have often proved correct. In October 2001 riots in Malegaon his henchman and MLA Dada Bhuse supplied arms to the Hindus in and around Malegaon taluka. It went to such an extent that more than 200 villages were affected and for the first time in the history Muslims were forced to migrate. There was a case of a Muslim boy who allegedly tried to disrobe a Hindu girl from Karachghavan in Malegaon taluka. Although the two families reached a mediated reconciliation and buried their hatched the Shiv Sena of Bhuse under the name of Jaanta Raaja carried out a violent anti Muslim agitation. This created the atmosphere suitable for riot. The tearing of the pamphlet Be Indian and Buy Indian came only as an excuse. A very sensitive area affected was Sangmeshwar where Bhuse allegedly killed a municipal councilor Khalil and burnt the power loom factories and a mosque within the Diamond compound.
Sangmeshwar was already astir with the elopement of the Hindu girl with the Muslim youth of that place, the parallel event of Karachghavan added fuel to the latent embers and the excuse came handy. That too on a Dassera day; cylinders and white powder appeared for the first time on the scene of rioting in Malegaon of 2001. This could be a dry run for what followed within months in Gujarat. The reason is worth noting that it was in the bordering regions of the two states that the RSS and VHP used to train the Bajrang Dal for violent attacks calculated to root out Muslims. It almost succeeded but for the fact that it was Congress government which did not allow a full blown massacre although the chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh could not explain why such an inordinately long curfew was imposed in Malegaon town. The imam in the mosque at Karachghavan was burnt alive. When I conducted a French girl there who was doing research on communalism, the neighbours of the imam were divided. Thos who were tainted with Hindutva did not want to throw light on it while those who were simple mind farming folks said that he was burnt alive. This again was precisely what preceded Gujarat.
That such events are unfortunately not dealt firmly leaves much to be desired. For example within the week that Malegaon saw the second bomb blast on September 29, 2008, closely on the heels of it another riot was staged that blew into a horrifying scenario. On October 5 Dhulia saw the worst riot in the history of the town. A Muslim boy of Nardana village of the district had love affair with a Hindu girl as a result of it the Hindutva groups had burnt 120 of 140 houses of the Muslims. This included the house of the uncle of Sarfraz Ahmed, the lover. The tearing of the notice board of the Hindu Raksha Samiti or the board of notice welcoming a prominent Muslim returning fro Haj came as ready excuse that was awaited.
A similar staggering trick was the farce of fasting for peace, harmony and brotherhood.
The three days fast from September 17-19, 2011 that Narendra Modi had undertaken did not bode well for unity, harmony and peace either for his very own state or the country. Gujarat is his ‘very own’, yes, because he has a hallucination that Gujarat is he and he is Gujarat. There is no difference between the two. Perhaps his mantra of development has gone to his head. Or else why should he undertake such a huge publicity stunt of a makeover from ‘the merchant of death’ to ‘the sultan of governance’? Though he castigated the sultanate of Delhi (Congress rule), his overwhelming desire and hidden agenda is to acquire it for him only.
However, the crux of the matter is that the ‘merchant of death’ has realized from day one February 28, 2002 that the genocide that he was unleashing on the hapless Muslims would have to be defended by subterfuges. Anyone in 21st century conducting such a course of action that too in a democracy knows the fate he will meet at the end. Luckily for him Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the central government and his own cabinet and the anti Muslim atmosphere in the aftermath of 9/11 played into his hands to execute the diabolic design known as the Hindutva experiment in the Gujarat laboratory, aptly called as the Final Solution. What he realized was the fall off of the deep conspiracy and the follow up was the subterfuge and cover up that would be required. That was also inevitable as he wanted to save his neck. He proved himself to be Dr Jekyll and Mr Hide for his ‘very own’ Gujarat. Therefore his makeover is in that direction of becoming ‘the sultan of governance.’ Those who saw through this diabolic design were never even once under any delusion.
One of them was RB Sreekumar who kept his diary and other records and used them to show that it was nothing but genocide of Muslims. He even addressed an open later to Modi on the eve of the fast: “You have rewarded practically, all those govt. officers, who actively participated through their acts of commission and omission, in violation of their oath of allegiance to the Constitution of India, in the planning and execution of anti-minority genocide in 2002, after the most condemnable Godhra train burning incident. This genocide will remain an inerasable sinful blot on our country, particularly to the practitioners of Hinduism of Upanishad and Bhagvadgeeta.” To achieve the real spirit of fasting, Sreekumar advised Modi: “Kindly convert your fast as a yagna to exorcise from your mind the ideas of exclusivism, sectarianism and hatred of certain sections Indian citizens, indoctrinated by the Sangh Parivar.”
The epithet ‘merchant of death’ was coined and used by Congress president Sonia Gandhi against him for the pogroms of Muslims in Gujarat 2002. That genocide was choreographed and conducted with impunity because the atmosphere of the state was so much vitiated by communalism that there was hardly any place for sanity left. However, there were a good number of people within the state and outside who were not tainted with it and they read the handwriting on the wall correctly. Among them were his own revenue minister Haren Pandya, his chief of intelligence, RB Sreekumar, police officers like Sanjiv Bhatt, Rahul Sharma, a social worker Malika Sarabhai and many more like them. They had seen closely what was written all over his face from yore.
In contrast to them there were lotus eaters or people who did not wake up from their self induced slumber of what was really happening in 2002. The home minister of the central government of India LK Advani, defence minister George Fernandes, Arun Jaitley, Arun Shourie, and many others. They showered praise upon Modi and even invoked his name to issue threat and terrorize the Muslims.
This dichotomy persists even today full nine years after the pogroms and so does the double speak of Moditva, his espousal of Hindu rightwing communalism. His hatred for Muslims is unmistakable as he calls them miyan (a derogatory word for Muslims, hum panch hamare pachis (we five our twenty five, his Goebbels-type of repeating lies so often that it becomes truth to the mass of people. Few Muslims can afford five wives and have twenty five children. This saying is also derogatory classification of Muslims despite the contrary nature of truth.) He called the Ghanshi Muslims who live in Godhra as criminals and responsible for the fire on the train. There is no credible evidence for this that they were behind the burning of the compartment of Sabarmati express. He instructed his officers to allow Hindus to take revenge so harshly that the Muslim would never raise their head. Afterward he justified it according to the Newtonian law of action and reaction. He dared the Muslims to summon rain in their holy month of Ramadan as he had done in the Hindu month of saravan. Eyesores of his were the greasy dressed Muslims repairers of vehicles on the sides of the roads and highways. The most convincing proof of his hatred is his staunch position of a prachrak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. The sangh is unequivocally the deadliest enemy of the Muslims despite their customary equivocation and façade of cultural nationalism that excludes Muslims.
The result of the first day of fasting for unity or harmony ironically turns out to be the utter denial of moral responsibility. There can be no hope for either unity or harmony because Modi knows that there would be no forgiveness for the crimes he allowed his administration allowed his people to commit. "What moral responsibility for riots am I being asked to take? My government did its best," Modi said. And the recurring prevarication of the Hindu right came out further when he referred to September 12 SC verdicts: "Who's celebrating? I'm fasting. What verdict are you talking about? Is there a single FIR against me?" This hubris turned out to be his fatal flaw. He came to believe that no FIR was registered against him. But the truth is that the SC has granted the case to be tried in the trial court and for the first time the allegations against a sitting CM would be tried as well along with the 62 others. Zakia Jafri wanted FIR registered against Modi and others which the DGP PC Pande refused in 2005 and the HC dismissed out of hand in 2006. She appealed to SC in 2007. In 2011 the SC granted her leave.
The judgment of the SC has come at a time when there is some glimmer of a hope that communalism is fading in Gujarat. The chances of Modi or his party coming to power at the centre is also bleak. The courts are remorselessly following the nine cases in which Modi is clearly involved. At such a juncture Modi has acted in real time to grab public attention lest he lose that any further thanks to the startling discoveries of the pogroms and the fake encounters. It is ironic that the US embassy officials have been hoodwinked by the excitement of the development in Gujarat as has the magazine Society.
There is also no denying the fact that the BJP party has come in power due to the communal divide over the Babri mosque momentum of the rath yatra of Advani, the demolition of the mosque and the horrible communal violence that seized the country. Therefore the more such communally divisive politics the greater the chances of the right wing party coming to power. The Hindutva iconic map of India on the stage at the Gujarat university auditorium and the absence of the posters of the iconic leaders of the party along with party flags there, were tell-tale of this. The focus is only on Modi and his development mantra. That is made out to give the message that he is most suitable for the country to lead it to progress and development. This is questionable even with reservation but for the fact that this fan fare is meant to sideline the deeds of ‘the merchant of death’ for the sake of his chances as ‘the sultan of governance’ to rule the country. The chances of this backfiring are there.
Sanjiv Bhatt dilates on one such when he narrates his experience in his open letter to Modi. “This is my 24th year in the IPS. I was allotted to the Gujarat cadre during a time when the State was passing through the throes of widespread and sporadic communal violence. Having been baptized by fire, I have been since trying to understand and deal with the likes of you, who deal in the divisive politics of hatred. It is my well founded observation that the polity of Gujarat has now crossed the stage where communal violence can accrue electoral benefits to any political party, as the process of communal polarization is very nearly complete in Gujarat. The experiments in the divisive politics of hatred have been very successful in the Gujarat Laboratory. You and your likes, in the political arena, have been largely successful in creating divides in the hearts and minds of the "Six Crore Gujaratis". The need to resort to any further communal violence in Gujarat is already passe.”
“In a constitutional democracy like ours, it is incumbent upon the State to act in Good faith at all times and under all circumstances. Over the last nine and a half years many friends have fallen prey to the misleading campaign that the Gujarat Carnage of 2002 was a spontaneous reaction to the condemnable action at Godhra on the fateful morning of 27 February 2002. The Newtonian Law was never abused more. You had resorted to your knowledge and understanding of Newtonian physics in March 2002 and had sought to apply it to polity and governance at the peak of the Gujarat Carnage of 2002. But what you might have deliberately missed then, and what many of us seem to be inadvertently missing now; is the universally accepted principle of governance which mandates that in a constitutional democracy, an avowedly secular State cannot be allowed to be partisan. It was the bounden duty of the State to have anticipated and controlled the possible Newtonian reaction, if any; not orchestrate and facilitate systematic targeting of innocent individuals!”
The above quote at length bares his foolhardy that credit for governance cannot cover up the murky deeds of Mr Hyde.
On the first day of the fast Modi proved in letter and spirit that his sadbhavna or good will was but dushbhavna or enmity. His home department dismissed Sanjiv Bhatt from the job because he had given out the secrets of danseuse Malika Sarabhai’s PIL in which she had accused Modi of ordering secret service fund of ten lakh rupees to be given to her lawyers as a bribe so that they would derail her case of April 2002. She had demanded inquiry into Naroda Patia where more than 800 hundred Muslims were burnt alive. The exposure came on the second day of the fast and the home department asked Bhatt to remain present for inquiry on the third day of the fast. However, without taking into consideration his views he was dismissed for having remained absent from duty for ten months.
Sanjiv Bhatt, Sreekumar, Teesta Setalvad, Mallika Sarabhai and others even Jagruti Pandya make a formidable front opposing Modi on moral and legal grounds. In another way the ‘regimentation terrorism’ (Louis Assange’s coinage) is opposed by various groups and it helps in throwing up even more dreary details. For example DG Vanzara as in charge of Ahmadabad city crime branch had planted arms in the houses of some Muslims of Dariapur on the 2002 Rathyatra day. This led to rioting and harassment of the Muslims, their arrest and torture. When Sreekumar reported this illegal act of Vanzara to the Commissioner of Police Ahmadabad the chief secretary KR Kaushik started an inquiry against him (Sreekumar). This could not have come about without the approval of Modi. In a way his “intrinsic mind is not for good will to all”, especially the Muslims and those Hindus who refuse to toe his line of thought. He refused to wear the skull cap the Muslim divine presented to him on the second day though he had been donning the turban of the Sikhs, the flat hat of the Assamese, the cow boy cap, the decorative Himachal Pradesh cap of the Hindu farmers, the colourful tie and die turban of the Rajasthan people, the black cap of his own RSS, etc.
The full import of the refusing to wear the cap offered by Sayed Imam Shahi Sayed could not sink into the mind of Modi because his “intrinsic mind is not for good will to all.” The imam is a sufi who lost his brother in 1993 Babri anti Muslim violence. Even then he travelled to the fast venue persuaded by Yasin Ajmerwala an activist of Rashtriya Muslim Manch of Indresh Kumar and was shocked at the refusal. The imam said in an afterthought: “He has been wearing caps, turbans of each community, but declined a Muslim one.” That the sufi Islam is pluralistic in essence as is symbolized by the mausoleum of Ajmer which Aseemanand wanted to target for bombing because even Hindus go there. This fact could not be lost on Modi. Even this accommodative Satpanthi sect has no place in the kind of India that the extremists among Hindus like Pracharak Modi envisage.
Modi acted again in real time when Sreekumar submitted his affidavit in response to Mallika Sarabhai’s demand that he do so in the matter of the “secret services’ money to bribe” her lawyers. Sreekumar had given his affidavit on the matter on Friday, the day when Modi’s home department also dismissed Bhatt from his job for his deposition of this matter before Nanavati-Mehta Commission in May 2011. All this adds up to how the Commission must have leaked the crucial details in real time like the SIT who was wont to do in the investigation of the Sohrabuddin case and the pogrom cases. After the arrest of Amit Shah it was Modi who was solely running the department along with his tainted Home Secretary Antani.
Let alone the PILs in the SC and the corroborative facts narrated by Modi’s DGP (intelligence) and his assistant, the media were very much there on the scene of the genocide. Like the chief minister of UP Kalyan Singh who did not order the police and military force at his command to stop the demolition of the Babri mosque, Modi also did not use the 9 columns of army at his disposal as reports indicated on March 3rd 2002 “Fernandes tried to insist on adequate army deployment", “but the state government’s uncooperative attitude ensured that lives that could have been saved were, in fact, lost. The government failed logistical information, for instance, on areas around Ahmedabad – Narod, Bapunagar, etc. - and the police refused to help the army (italics added for insight). As a result, the nine army columns made available to the state government were deployed only around noon on Friday. Flag marches began only in the evening. “(Hindustan Times 3.3.02) If this is not complicity on the part of Modi what else is it? How long will Modi and his party deny all this, albeit, give him certificate of being honest and most efficient? This makes the claim hollow that the police were outnumbered by the mobs. The police were themselves leading the attacks on Muslims. Even in demolition of the grave of a Muslim poet held in high esteem by even the Hindus, was being demolished and the strike force of the police passing there by indicated the mobs to do a thorough and quick job of it!
What will the fate of democracy in India be if Modi were the Prime Minister in future? The past experience will help us to peep into the future as the media reports in the context of the genocide on March 3, 2002. “Opp MPs not allowed to tour Ahmedabad : A TEAM of MPs comprising Sitaram Yechuri, Shabana Azmi, Raj Babbar and Amar Singh were today denied permission by police to visit the riot-affected areas of Ahmedabad. The team that returned to Delhi, criticised the Gujarat government for the way it is handling the situation. After waiting for over three hours at the Ahmedabad police commissioner's office last night, an outraged Shabana said city police gave the absurd excuse that their presence would incite more violence. Speaking to mediapersons in New Delhi today, Samajwadi leader Amar Singh said: "We tried to visit some of the worst-hit areas of the city but we were asked for permits. Then we were told that if we wanted to go to any of those areas we should do it at our own risk," he said. He has already shot off a letter to Narendra Modi charging him of having let loose a "jungle raj" in the city. "We have been getting repeated calls from people stuck in trouble-torn areas for help but police are not allowing us into the city. (Indian Express 3.3.02)
Those who ruled from Delhi in 2002 included a man who visited Gujarat full six days after the calamity that struck the state and the capital from which he has won elections successively till today. “Advani skirted most sensitive areas, including Naroda, Chamanpura and Bapunagar, and at the press meeting, he looked like he had yet to come to grips with the situation. Though he rapped the state administration over the mounting death toll, he seemed to buy the official claims of "tapering tensions" and effective administrative action (italics mine, for irony).” Given this mindset of the rulers who came to power in Delhi for the first time and the experience of their protégé in Gujarat the road looks metalled and well paved.
But Modi is not exactly a fool. And this is also his subterfuge. He knows that a potential contender for the post of PM would never say what he said at the time of 2007 election. He had dared the central government to hang him for the killing of Sohrabuddin. He repeated it on the second day of the fast “fasad ke liye kusurwar hun to phansi do” (“Hang me if found guilty of the riots”. That is how the Urdu heading of the paper goes.) At times he does not realize that he is not speaking tongue in cheek.
This inventory shows that many of the events narrated here have the same staggerying tactics of attempting to cover up and hence no one to one relationship of action and reaction of the Newtonian physics. It is because genocide is not produced or experimented in any laboratory of physics.
Euphemism and innuendoes have brought him to this fame. But can all this make the poster boy of Hindutva a suitable match for the Delhi sultanate?
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Modi-bribed-my-lawyers-to-derail-PIL-on-2002-riots-Sarabhai/articleshow/10028796.cms
Saffronised police show their colour (Hindu 3.3.02)
Gujarat toll crosses 400, villages burn
He also accepted the official count of deaths in police firing, which, according to locals, is questionable. (HT 4.3.02)
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Narendra-Modi-refuses-to-wear-maulanas-skull-cap/articleshow/10047403.cms
Asia express (Urdu) September 19, 2011.
“He has been wearing caps, turbans of each community, but declined a Muslim one” Indian Express September 19, 2011.














Chapter 17
Hatred bonr in mind
The thought of genocide of Muslims was born years ago when Dr Moonje visited Italy. He was the founding member of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh who had gone there in search of means of how to kill more than a dozen at a time. This was his clearly stated purpose of the tour of Italy and meeting the dictator Mussolini. In Sahni’s novel Tamash the youths of RSS are initiated into violence by training in killing pigs to give them a taste of blood. As a pracharak or RSS chief of a section of Gujarat Narendra Modi was well versed in the tradition of his organization. The fire on the Sabarmati Express started at 8.30 on February 27, 2002. The collector of Godhra Ms Jayanthi Ravi maintained between 8.30 am to 7.30 pm that “the incident was not preplanned, it was an accident.” The UC Banerjee Commission set up by the Railway minister of the Central Government to inquire into the matter also found it to be that. The chief minister, Narendra Modi, reached Godhra at 2 pm and he held a press conference at 7.30 and declared that there was “ISI hand behind the Godhra incident.” He succeeded in selling this brainchild of his. Vishwa Hindu Parishad declared a strike the next day to which Modi agreed. Nay, he officially granted a free hand to the Hindus to vent their anger on the Muslims for full three days.
Nearly nine years after the genocide his intelligence chief of that time DGP RB Sreekumar used a very crystallizing phrase for describing the essence of Modi when he said that his “intrinsic mind is not for goodwill to all.” This was thanks to the exclusivist ideology of the RSS. One of the governing and most dynamic thoughts of the ideology is what Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar, RSS supreme chief wrote on purging the Muslims and other minorities to keep the Hindus as a pure race a la the Nazis. “To keep up the purity of the Race and its culture, Germany shocked the world by her purging the country of the Semitic races – the Jews. Race pride at its highest has been manifested here. Germany has also shown how well-nigh impossible it is for Races and cultures, having differences going to the root, to be assimilated into one united whole, a good lesson for us in Hindusthan to learn and profit by.
“The ultimate vision of our work ... is a perfectly organised state of society wherein each individual has been moulded into a model of ideal Hindu manhood and made into a living limb of the corporate personality of society.” The genocide of the Muslims of Gujarat in 2002 was the boldest and most overt operation in massacre taken in modern history. It was coached in such sophistry that the half hearted governments at the centre did not seriously bother to either stop it when it was taking place or allowed inordinate delay in trying the cases. This gave Modi plenty of time to enjoy impunity. So much so that most of his fellow Gujaratis did not sit up and take note of the enormity. In fact most of them felt that the Muslims deserved it and they dismissed it out of mind. This was made possible by Modi orchestrating the development and achievements he always boasted of. This also became a familiar benchmark that made Gujarat almost number one state of India. Very few realized that the drive behind all this was his motive of avoiding the specter of the genocide come fore.
Who conducted the first experiment?
For quite some years there has been talk of the Hindutva laboratory. Gujarat was made out to be Hindutva laboratory with the BJP coming to power and arrival of Narendra Modi. In fact the laboratory was already there at the headquarters of Nagpur and at regional offices of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Instead of one there were many official and residential space used as laboratories to experiment in bomb making and exploding them with self improvised devices. Himanshu Panse and his accomplices of the Bajrang Dal and RSS and VHP used the residential house of the engineer in the water supply department of Nanded to experiment bomb making. Accidentally they blew themselves up and it became news despite the attempts of hiding it by no other than the state police of Maharashtra. In Goa also the members of the Sanatan Sansthan made experiments in the bushes behind their farm houses. In Kanpur also the RSS volunteers made bombs and accidentally a huge explosion shook the city. The police commissioner evinced it when he said that this could have been sufficient to destroy half of the city. Sunil Joshi of Dewas also experimented making and assembling bombs and experimenting them in his town with locally manufacture pipe with grooves inward. This has been going on for decades together because the obvious aim is to achieve the Nazi Final Solution as far as the Muslims in India are concerned.
In this momentous endeavour it is evident that Maharashtra and Gujarat have played a leading role. Maharashtra has a distinct place in this for the obvious reason that RSS chiefs have mostly come from the state and the headquarters are at Nagpur where mostly Maharashtrian Brahmans had founded RSS and have run it since then. However, the two most historic events that shook India are also connected to Maharashtra, the demolition of Babri mosque in 1992 and the Gujarat genocide of Muslims in 2002. The Hindu extremist party Shiv Sena and its supermo Bal Thackeray never felt inhibited in asserting that they played dominant role in 1992 catastrophe. Thackeray claimed responsibility for the demolition of the mosque at Ajodhya though the central government never booked him for the crime.
He also voiced his desire to form suicide squad to attack Muslims. At times he even named the Bangladeshi migrants settled in cities as the legitimate target of attack for the Hindus. Never even once did he keep silence after a bomb attack anywhere in India of his desire for retaliating bomb for bomb. This goes even before 9/11 and proves that Hindutva terror is much older in history than has ever been acknowledged and in real fact precedes the Islamic terrorism which came in vogue in the aftermath of 9/11.
There is a further dimension that has not been fully brought to light given the kind of atmosphere that still prevails in the country. Thackeray boasted during Modi’s three days fasting that Modi should not show any remorse. Thackeray went further and claimed that it was Maharashtra that was first in experimenting Hindutva ideology of “retaliation”. Gujarat followed it and Modi owes all this to Mahrashtra. There is a crystallization of what is the driving force of Hindutva: hatred of Muslims.
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Sadbhavana (Goodwill) To The Sycophants And Dushbhavana To The Honest And The Upright. RB Sreekumar Countercurrents September 17, 2011.









Chapter 18
A Daniel come to judgment: the amicus curiae
The most crucial aspect of the latest exposure of amicus curiae Raju Ramchandran’s report on October 23, 2011 is that Sanjiv Bhatt could have of course been in the cabal meeting at the residence of the chief minister in Gandhinager. There are still some people apart from Panth who went back on his words that Bhatt was driven by him in his car. Later he travelled in the DGP car to the said destination. Panth’s case is anyway based on shaky grounds in the words of the judge who granted bail to Bhatt. But another police constable Neelesh Brahmabhatt also said that he received a call of meeting for Bhatt and went in search of him but Bhatt had already left for the meeting. Moreover Bhatt is aware of the seating arrangement in the room where the meeting took place. But the most important is the ‘license’ Modi gave to the people to vent out their anger and officers and cops not to come in their way. Why did Bhatt choose to reveal this nearly nine years afterward? The Amicus is aware as many who are aware of the goings on in the case that Bhatt wanted a criminal case registered and if he is called as witness then he could depose before the judge. The inquiry of the SIT was of primary nature. The official secrets act for which BJP blames Bhatt for violating, naturally Bhatt did not violate it for more than nine years. When the legal hurdle was cleared and the courts called him he naturally disclosed the mother of all secrets as far as the genocide is concerned. "I will tell Nanavati Commission that and much more because I was privy to much more. When I approached the SC with the affidavit, I told them that I know much more which I can reveal to the honorable court as and when I am called upon to do so. If the commission is interested in finding out the truth and if given an opportunity to speak up the truth, I can come out with all the facts I can recollect at this point of time," said Bhatt (as reported by IBN on April 30, 2011) “Guj riots: Bhatt to reveal more on Modi's role.” So the matter came up not just before the Nanavati commission, but before the apex court as well as the Gujarat high court. What he told to them is still ringing in the ears of the people.
Now that the case has been fast forwarded to this juncture what is most important to wait for is the documentary evidence. Haren Pandya is said to have made a video tape of the meeting. So naturally people would wait with baited breath to know it. They would also know what more Bhatt has to reveal.

MK Tandon and BP Gondia also figure as their role is quite in violation of the rule of law. What crimes have they committed that such dreaded section “304A IPC, which penalizes death caused by negligence” can be applied against them?
There is corruption in the judiciary as much as elsewhere. It is coming out that the name of RK Raghvan is listed on page 18 (pfd page 20) of the Tata Consultancy Services Limited-Annual Report 2009-10. Did a part of the proceeds of the Nano settlement go to Raghvan? What kind of Management Team Security it could be? The people of India who care more for the corruption which has benighted the land have a right as well as a duty to know this. Corruption and communalism go hand in hand. One hides the other.
The Sections of the IPC, which can be applied against Modi include 153 A (statements promoting enmity between communities). Modi instructing police to be partial to Hindus when they resort to take revenge is a violation of 153. He has called Ghanchi Muslims as criminal and terrorist is also an act of causing enmity. We five and ours twenty five is what he addresses Muslims with and it denigrates them and hence an offence. If calling a shoe maker ‘chamar’ is offensive, Modi’s cavalierly calling Muslims miyan and by other derogatory terms which is also offensive. He also challenged Muslims to produce rain in Ramadan as he or Hindus can call god to send rain in the month of sravan. His description of Muslims as greasy eyesores fixing punctures and repairing vehicles by road sides smacks uncharitable of the CM. Of all epithets the most stinging is that the relief camps of Muslims are child producing factories. He also opined that they produce terrorists. Modi’s quotes from saffron book elsewhere discussed in this book will make him the most criminal of all dictators of the subcontinent of Asia.
The next charge of section 153 B (imputations and assertions prejudicial to national integration) is the least bothered about in discussing Modi because of ubiquitous assumption that national integration is a matter of lip service and is taken casually. Anyway, the Hindutva groups do not view Muslims as Indian citizens having the same rights as the Hindus. Their mindset is a mirror of Modi. Both are lookalike of each other as is the copy cat mukhota or mask of Modi familiarly worn by the mobs in Gujarat supporting his actions. His uninhibited description of the Muslim ghetto of Juhapura as a colony of Muslims across the “border” speaks volumes of this chote sardar on mini Pakistans in India, especially in his Gujarat. If he can go to this extent and the central government and the courts do not take any suo motto notice and action, it again speaks volumes to the people who have a concern for the country. This crystallizes the most nagging problem of all as to who is the legitimate citizen of the country, those who love the country but do not wear their hearts on their sleeves or those whom Ribeiro calls pseudo patriots!
When Modi asked his crowds in 2007 elections what would they do with a terrorist and smuggler like Sohrabuddin they chorused that they would kill him, this surely constitutes the violation of section 505 (statements conducing to public mischief). As ultimately it turned out, Sohrabuddin was used by Modi and Amit Shah to earn a fast buck to the government by way of extortion. That it was certainly Modi who gave order for killing Sohrabuddin not for smuggling, extortion or any petty crimes but for the danger he would cause to the government if he revealed the murder mystery of Haren Pandya. When media asked him who were present in the fateful meeting at his residence in the night of February 27, he enumerated all but did not take the name of Sanjiv Bhatt! It was as mischievous as exhorting the crowds to murder Sohrabuddin.
The section 166 (public servant disobeying a direction of the law with the intent to cause injury) is what he violated when he instructed VHP state secretary Jaideep Patel to take the dead bodies of the Sabarmati express coach S6 passengers in flagrant disregard of law and order situation that it would lead to. Of all the people the highest government officer of the district of Godhra tried to prevent it and he over ruled her lawful advice! His deputy chief security officer Sanjiv Bhatt had moved earth and heaven to have curfew declared in Gulberg society area. This was not done at the behest of the highest level. He even spoke to Modi of it who knew what was happening there and yet Modi did not leave his chair. Like limpet he was stuck to his chair and stone deaf he was to the advice and stone hearted in not bothering about the endangering of the lives of so many and especially a former member of the parliament of India. If a powerful relative of Rupa Mody could ask the police to evacuate the remaining Parsis out of the Gulberg society, what about the chief minister of the state who has sworn on the Constitution to protect all the citizens of the state.
Every action and every word of Modi constitute gross violation of all the sections mentioned so far. It would require a thousand pages to consider them. But he through IB functionary Rajinder Kumar and others tired to pressurize a number of state servants and those from the central government to give a rosy picture of Gujarat so that the façade of normalcy will facilitate election that he would win on the Hindutva wave. This is highly Machiavellian behavior on the part of the chief minister and a blot on democracy. He taunted the identity and insidiously highlighted it when he uttered the full name of the chief election commissioner James Michael Lyngdoh! He flouted all norms when he opposed the 15 points programme of the central government by not implementing it and returning the fund unused! This was because the programme aimed at the uplift of the Muslim community. He held out threat to journalists that they would meet the fate of Daniel Pearl if they covered the carnage. All these and more are enough even for the proverbial nine blind men who set out describing the elephant. What more the central government and the courts want to know what is prosecutable and what is not? The behemoth is stark naked to see.
Digvijay Singh is of course not like one of the nine blind. His comment on the report of Ramchandran is relevant and should be read as he wrote without correcting grammar or spelling.
Digvijay Singh (Bhopal)
4 hrs ago (05:09 PM)
Modi has planned the godhra train burning for his political aspirations with intention to blame muslims for the massacre. He prepared the list of muslim address and business on 28th Feb 2002 just one day after Godhra train burning and gave it to Bajrang Dal Goon to carry out massacre. He direct police to not to arrest any Bajrang Dal member and only arrest muslims. The police also provided transporation to the goons in their govt vehicle. Modi also got haren pandya killed with the help of sorabuddin. The fact is a senior police officer defended Shorabuddin in Haren Pandya case and left him. But later when he became threat to modi, he was eliminated along with his wife Kauser Bi (poor lady was raped for weeks and later murdered) and also Tulsiram Prajapati was murdered coz he was the only witness to the crime. Haren pandya was fierce opponent of modi and strong supporter of keshubhai patel. His father died begging for justice, but could not get it till his last breath. Modi also disown his wife, one Joshnaben modi, who still stays in a remote village of Gujurat. As he climbed the stairs of RSS, he disowned his wife, just because unmarried people are treated with high regards in RSS. Overall, people say he got Gujurat Developed, Gujurat was always a developed state, thanks to the gujurati people, but the development of gujurat done by modi is only for popular groupls like Adani, Reliance, Tata etc. There are many scams related to Gujurat which are under investigations, Scams such as Sujalam Sufalam scam, Rs 33,000-crore concession to Tata's Nano car plant, concessions in land allotment to Adani group for Mundra Port and SEZ, allotment of costly prime land of Navsari Agricultural University to Chhatrala Group for a five star hotel; and allotment of coastal regulation zone and forest land and permission to Essar Group. Modi can do anything to get in power. He can kill his own brother, disown his own wife and betray his own community. So what are common innocent humans for him, just a piece of cake. So do we still need such a henious mass murderer to become our PM. Don't we need to bring his to books and punish him for his misdeed. If we want to end terrorism in the country, we will have to punish people like modi so the astrayed people in the country believes in the law and does not dare to take law in their hand. so just think before voting next time. Jai Hind.”
Another comment describes that it was Harsh Salvewho had intorudced RK Raghvan to the apex court and recused himself from the work.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Book-Gujarat-cops-for-neglect-during-riots-Amicus-curiae/articleshow/10457934.cms












Chapter 19
Tulsiram Prajapati and Multiplicity of crimes
The murder of Tulsiram Prajapati and the rape and murder Kauser Bi could not have been possible without the knowledge and involvement of Modi. More than a year had passed when these events came to light. Sohrabuddin was killed on November 26 2005. His wife was raped by Abhay Chaudasma and killed. Prajapati was killed on December 28, 2006. He was the only living witness of the fake encounter of Sohrabuddin. In a repeat performance four police men of Gujrat were bringing Sylvester Daniel to Vadodra from Udaipur when he got the four PSI MS Gohil, head constable Ambalal Lallubhai, and two constables, Vijay Baburao and Ranchhod Jinabhai drunk and escaped. But he was arrested from Ajmer on Friday October 7, 2011. Daniel is an important witness in Sohrabuddin case because it was on his testimony that Amit Shah and Abhay Chaudasma were arrested. DGP Chitranjan Singh of Gujarat says that policing policemen is difficult. It is strange that Daniel escaped although he was crucial in getting Amit Shah and Abhay Chaudasma arrested. He busted their racket involving extortion of money and his disclosure that Sohrbuddin was also used by the two. How could such an important witness be allowed to escape? He was so material a witness that he was taken to Ahmadabad from Vadodra jail for eleven times and Udaipur eight times. How could the security be so lax that he escaped! Was it done to have him killed in a fake encounter as Tulsiram was done? The more time passes the greater is the exposure of how the Gujarat police has been acting. It surely confirms that Modi through his lieutenant and trusted minister of state for home was at the head of the racketeering and extortion that was going on and some of the accused criminals were also inducted in killing off Modi’s opponents like Haren Pandya. Sylvester Daniel was arrested and imprisoned in Vadodra on August 23, 2010. It is also a matter of suspicion that the officer investigating the case DCP Crime Ashok Kumar Yadav refused to share information with the Udaipur police. Why should Singh say that no conspiracy should be read in the affair? It is for nothing that Daniel was allowed to visit his mother after he had been unshackled. Singh also said that the car broke down and that was why he escaped. It was Daniel who said that money transaction followed after the shooting incident at the Popular Builders in Ahmadabad at the behest of Chaudasma.
Daniel had acquired a gun at Ajmer and had cell phones through his friends. This is ominous. He could have been used by the government of Modi to kill potential witnesses that pose direct threat to the chief minister as the chief minister himself is responsible for the fake encounters and the genocide. In both the crimes many important leaders and ministers are involved. Indeed such is the clout of Modi that Amit Shah is out on bail despite very grave charges against him including of murders, extortion of money and even section 194 of fabricating evidence.
The cases are evolving more and more by the day for the reason that genocide is a conglomeration of crimes with multiple implications which threaten to involve everyone who played any role. Only very few are free from the taint. Tulsiram was taken to the police station to identify Sohrabuddin before Sohrabuddin was killed and thrown on the road. The police got a motor cycle stolen from Maharashtra and left it at the dead body saying that he was escaping on the motor cycle. He was bumped off because Shah wanted him to kill Haren Pandya but he could not get the work done. But Pandya was killed nevertheless. Thus the multiplicity of crimes emanates from any one and reveals an intricate network of links. The momentous task of Modi is to handle such huge network of criminals that he and his government is leaving clues in abundance. A faulty strategy of the Hindutva is to divert attention from all these cases of law of the jungle of Modi to say for an instance the pending hanging of Afzal Guru. This was twice removed from reality as Plato would say while dealing with imitation. At first genocide had taken place in broad day light. Second, the regular racketeering and extortion was the run of the mill of the government. Third, those involved in the second were used to destroy vital witnesses and evidence of the first. Thus the Gujarat police wanted Rajasthan police to take Prajapati into custody. When they refused they framed him in a case that involved Rajasthan jurisdiction. As he was required in two states the frequent transportation was used as ruse to conduct a fake encounter. Prajapati’s was one such and Sylvester Daniel’s would have been another on the same pattern of multiplicity of crimes.
This game of cover up has been going on for years together. When Geetha Johari submitted curative petition to SC she claimed that the third person with Sohrabuddin was not Prjapati but Kalimuddin, a police informer of Andhra Pradesh. This could be that she wanted to divert attention from Prajapati who had really killed Haren Pandya. She did not write anything about Kalimuddin who disappeared in the jungle and mingled with the Maoists. So the trace would not lead to Prajapati. The trail would go cold as far as Kalimuddin was concerned. However when Sanjiv Bhatt was in charge of the Sabamati prison he had come to know that Prajapati mayhave killed Haren Pandya and that Modi was involved in it.
Geetha Johari made the pioneering inquiry into the fake encounter of Sohrabuddin. CBI investigation has found out that the third person was not Kalimuddin alias Nayeemuddin, but Prajapati. Therefore two different individuals claim that it was Prajapati who shot dead Haren Pandya or at last he was the person who fired the last shot at Pandya. There must have been others too. The way Prajapati was murdered by Vanzara’s men leads one to believe that this was the case. Prajapti threw powder chilli into the eyes of the cops and escaped and then he opened fire at the police who killed him. But the gun wounds prove that he was shot dead from close range. Where would he get chilli powder? Furthermore all this criminal acts were monitored and controlled by the minister of state for home, Amit Shah. When Snjiv Bhatt told about Prajapati killing Pandya the minister looked extremely nervous and wanted him to hush up over the matter. But Bhatt wrote officially and conveyed the matter and also put it on record that Shah had told him to conceal this. It must have disturbed Modi and Shah very much as they put pressure on Bhatt to withdraw the report he had submitted as in charge of the Sabarmati jail. Johari could have tried to destroy the trail of the murderer by blaming on Kalimuddin. It is equally pertinent to remember that the SC had chided her for her slips in her investigation. It was precisely hiding the fact that it was Prajapati that the apex court passed strictures against her. The court was also seized of the fact that the Modi government had charge sheeted her husband, another government servant, and dropped the charges when she became pliant. Was this a quid pro quo adjustment?
Her belief that Kaleemudin was a member of the People’s War Group and was a valuable informer to the police and that is why the Andhra police protected him. However an officer of the rank of Inspector General had reserved rooms in police hostel in Hyderabad in his name where the Gujarat police stayed. The name of the officer has not been disclosed. It shows that the AP police was very much involved in a larger way. It could not be just a Maoist police informer. Among the cops who went to Hyderbad was one Narendra K Amin who shot dead a Muslim youth Mujahid Saleem in the police station where the Muslims had gathered to voice their concern for the arrest of innocent youths from the community in the case of the Mecca mosque blasts. There was no forensic examination of Amin’s gun who went absconding before arrest in the Sohrabuddin case. He even offered to become a state witness.
Geetha Johari’s lie is nailed when she told the court that three of the killers were from Hyderabad and Asghar Ali was one of them. Now that all the three including Ali have been set free along with other nine accused it is difficult to believe her. She played into the hands of the Modi administration. It cannot be anymore accepted that Modi was unaware of such meandering course of investigation when he was the man who transferred the police officers frequently. Otherwise it would confirm the adage blind ruler and skewed rule, andha raja chopat raj.
Johari has also to convince that her testimony that Sohrabuddin case is linked to Haren Pandya killing then why not Prajapati killing related to Pandya case if Prajapati was the one who pulled the trigger on Pandya. The CID branch of Ahmadabad had bungled their investigation of Sohrabuddin. In their charge sheet the name of Kalimuddin was merely mentioned. After this recording of charge sheet she went to SC and submitted her curative petition. Another aspect that puzzles is that she wanted to question Prajapati the following day but she had not given permission to inspector and Investigation Officer VL Solanki to interrogate Prajapati. Did she try to scuttle the investigation through this unethical way of stalling inquiry for the fear that Prajapati’s role in the murder of Pandya would after long last come out in the open? It was this kind of bungling on the part of DGP rank officer Johari that the SC finally took away the inquiry from her and handed it to the CBI.
She has also to answer for the charge that she had tried to put pressure on Solanki to remove the names of DG Vanzara, Rajkumar Pandiyan, from his report at the instance of Amit Shah. The minister also got GC Raiger transferred when Raiger refused to comply as he was the chief of CID (crime) and ADGP.
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http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/to-unravel-mystery-police-scan-sylvesters-visitors-in-jail/858387/
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_sylvester-daniel-got-police-escort-party-drunk-before-escape_1597078
http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/GUJ-AHD-witness-in-sohrabuddin-sheikh-fake-encounter-case-nabbed-from-ajmer-2488767.html


Chapter 20
Reveng of Administration and Police complicity in genocide
Had the police been not given orders to let the Hindus take revenge of Godhra the post Godhra genocide would not have taken place. The police most outrageously exhibited their penises to the women from the Muslim community in Vadodra district. This was also the case of the temple volunteers or kar sevaks who were riding on the roof of the Sabarmati express which led to stone pelting. Ye under ki baat hai police hamare saath hai, this is inside story that the police are with the Hindu crowds in wreaking revenge on Muslims, is a verbal cryptogram of the genocide executed in actual deeds.
Kalupur is a communally sensitive ghetto of Ahmadabad. The Hindus and Muslims live cheek by jowl here. In every riot until February 2002 it is a window case show of how there is one to one retaliation by the two communities. It was for the first time that the police were let loose upon the Muslims to directly kill them without any legal consequences. It came as a gift from the chief minister. Thus the deputy commissioner of police Gadvi told VHP district in charge Ramesh Dave to point any five Muslims and the deputy commissioner would kill them at will. He executed his promise instantly. Dave: “Before we knew it he’d killed five people.” This ‘awe and stun’ operation was activated by the order of the chief minister. This boldness of action is outsourced by the office of the chief minister. The genocide in the aftermath of 9/11 bears all the hallmark of what the Americans inspired in the world thanks to how the Vajpayee government jumping on the bandwagon of the ‘war on terror.’
The police commissioner PC Pande according to Tehelka report ordered that the 700-800 dead bodies at Naroda Patiya be clandestinely picked up and dumped all over Ahmadabad to reduce the toll of the massacre.
The police could have prevented the high number of casualties but they kept their eyes and mouth shut, in the words of the man who led the most dangerous pogrom at Naroda Patia, Babu Bajrangi. “Nobody can do what Narendrabhai has done in Gujarat. If I didn’t have Narendrabhai’s support we would not have been able to avenge Godhra …because the police was standing right in fron of us, seeing all that was happening, but they had shut their eyes and mouths. At that time, had the police wanted, they would never have let us in…there was just one entry, like a housing society had and then Patiya begins..if they wanted to stop us, there were 50 of them there, they could have stopped us…we had good support from the police..because of Narendrabhai.”
Rahul Sharma was in charge of Bhavnager district. He controlled the situation well by ordering his men to fire at the crowds when they attacked. As a result Muslims and Hindus fell victim to the shooting. But the minister of state for home Gordhan Zadaphia spoke to him on phone at 10.10 am on March 16, 2002. “Zadaphia said that while I had done a good job, the ratio of those who died in the police firing was not proper—he was complaining about there being more Hindu deaths than Muslim. Id told him things woud depend on the ground situation and the nature of the mob.” This is what Sharma told the Nanavati commission.
The role of the police was and has continued to be atrocious; Suresh Rchiard: “The police were with us, I can tell you so myself, even now..,the police. That day was great… They were shooting righ in front of us.. they must have killed 70 or 80 or more…didn’t even spare women. We’d finished burning everything and had come back. That was when the police called us.. They said Muslims were hiding in the gutter. Now when we went there, we saw their houses bad all been burned down but seven or eight of them had hidden in the drain...we closed the lid on it…if we’d gone in after them, we might have een indanger. We closed the lid and placed big boulders on it…Later on, they found eight or ten corposes in there… They’d hidden to save their lives, but we closed it off and they died of the gases down there.this happened in the evening…the dhamaal went on till night, till about 8.30.”
The revengeful attitude of the administration to any move that is perceived hostile to Modi and posing threat to reveal the truth about what transpired in 2002 is palpable as in what government counsel SBVakil questioned Sanjiv Bhatt before Nanavati commission. When the cop was exasperated by pointed questions he reminded him of crossing his limit. Pat came the reply "You already crossed your limit on the day you filed the affidavit in the SC."
Bhatt reminded the commission that he was not a witness and cannot be questioned. Even the Jamaitul ulemai Hind asked the high court if the commission had the right to question Bhatt as he was not a witness. It reminded the court that Jan Sangharsh manch was also denied opportunity to question Gordan Zadaphia on the same ground.
Sharad Vakil not only said the above but he also asserted that the government was not duty bound to keep the records, including log-books of the cops, vehicle log-books and control room phone records which have the minutes of the meetings, beyond five years. This is nothing else but a retort to Bhatt who maintained silence before the commission.
Malika Sarabhai and Jan Sangharsh Manch also want to grill Bhatt for different reasons than those of Vakil. They would love to prod the former deputy in chief of the security agency in Gujarat in order to throw light on the more crucial areas. That would unearth the involvement of the government in the pogroms. But Vakil would like to gauge how much secret has Bhatt come to know and what records of the pogroms he has in his possession in order to get ready for defence of Modi and most likely find out ways and means of hiding the truth. There is a sinister maneuvering to get to the secrets that Bhatt has in possession, his documentary proof against Modi and others involved in the genocide. This is similar to the feature of Ur Fascism “ability to send different signals to different sets of people and rattle them by the sheer speed and force of its popular appeal.” The popular appeal is also created by selective leaking of ongoing investigation into the carnage. The obvious aim is a fascist reaction of the populace.
Different groups getting different signals but they merge on the leitmotif of the genocide. Kuldeep Sharma has asked the HC to quash a case of nine years old in which the additional chief judicial magistrate of Anand district has ordered initiation of prosecution against him. He says that this was in reaction to his proactive approach to the encounter case of Sohrabuddin. FP 24-6-11. Illustrations pile up in hundreds. For example this one: Modi sent his police to the office of Anhad to intimidate them because they wanted to organize a meeting opposing the government move. The cops blamed the NGO Anhad of engaging in anti state activities. They thundered whether they had let the landlord know that they were doing such anti state activities. This would only mean that they would harass the landlord too if they did not vacate the premises on their own. They ordered the office bearers to give names and addresses including phone numbers of all those who worked there and also their parents so that they would even mistreat parents by way of harassing them. And especially they demanded details of Manisha who was in charge of the office there. Their anger was at the support Anhad was giving to Sanjiv Bhatt. This discriminatory behavior made the NGO Anhad exclaim with wonder at Modi:
1. Have you declared an independent country where the Indian
Constitution doesn't apply?
2. If the Indian Constitution allows freedom of speech, protest ,
descent[dissent] then how come it is not allowed in Gujarat.
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http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/GUJ-AHD-gujarat-govt-has-destroyed-all-crucial-documents-of-2002-riots-2230147.html?HT3=
Tehelka November 3, 2007.
www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-view-fascist-streak-of-team-anna-appurvanand281110823.html
Police came knocking to intimidate Anhad. Countercurrents.org. 28 June, 2011.








Chapter 21
Fake encounter terror
Muslims were the object of killing by cops and crowds of extremist Hindus, the former in fake encounters and the latter in mob terror. Both were part of the same genocide as the cops who actively took part in the pogroms were promoted and later on, on promotion killed Muslims in fake encounters.
Sohrabuddin did not have his sketch prepared by the police as a wanted terrorist. It was Modi who transformed his clean shaved and mustached image as a terrorist. His middle class bonding with his wife Kauser before the Taj in Agra is unforgettable. The hunt for him began when he posed a danger that he knew explosive details of the murder of Haren Pandya or else why should Modi go after him, a man who brought lot of kick backs. The spoils of office did not remain with Amit Shah alone. So as the urgency to hunt and kill him before he exposes the detail he was bumped off. In other words it was what MJ Akbar called “a sense of urgency in the hunt that has absolutely no relationship with reality.” It is not the computer generated bearded and capped and kurta clad lookalike of Muslims but a debonair like Sohrabuddin who is made out into a terrorist. Did his photo ever appear in the magazine Debonaire? Or was it enough that he modeled for Sanjay Joshi the bête noire of modi. The cops who kill such dreaded ‘terrorist’ enjoy other spoils of office, promotion and rewards. Modi has been at it for how long we cannot name exactly but it began with his assuming office of the chief minister. Every time a fake encounter takes places the police make it out as terrorists out to kill the chief minister are being killed while attacking the police. By what standard had the police made Ishrat Jahan into a terrorist? It was easier for the BJP governments in Gujarat and Delhi in 2004 to declare her so. So the strategy of the plethora of the mukhota or masks in Modi’s electioneering was also used in the case of the so called terrorists out to kill him. “Images are more likely to be the outcome of imagination propelled by fear among the people and cynical prejudice on the part of the police. Check: these instant images will almost always be adorned with a beard. This is institutionalised communalism, and not very subtle either, against Muslims.”
There are certain prevalent beliefs that cannot die even when we want them to. One of the commonest assumptions was that not all Muslims are terrorists but why every terrorist caught or killed is a Muslim.
Sohrabuddin was a criminal involved in smuggling therefore a terrorist. Hence the inference, that Tulsiram Prajapati was also involved in smuggling but he was not a terrorist. How many times has Narendra Modi called Prajapati a terrorist?
According to an independent journalist and documentary film maker of Delhi, Shubadradeep Chakravorty who has asserted that there are four fake encounter cases: Ishrat Jahan and others. His film Encountered on Saffron Agenda is on it. He has also refuted David Headley’s claim that Ishrat was LeT operative. On June 15, 2004 she as well as Javed Gulam Shaikh alis Pranesh Pillari, Amjadali alias Rajkumar Akbar ali Rana and Jisan Johar Abdul Ganny were killed. The documentary covered seven states and shows 37 people including KTS Tulsi whom he interviewed. “The special investigative team report has said Isharat’s encounter was fake,” says Chakravorty. “There is no question of Ishrat undergoing training because her records show she never missed classes for a long duration”, he added. “When I interviewed the Gujarat police informally, they admitted there was an intelligence slip. The police are trying to tarnish Ishrat’s image,’ he said further.
Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his administration conducted a well worked out strategy designed for self promotion and aggrandizement of an ideology of killing off Muslims in fake encounters. This is what DG Vanzara called deshbhukhti or patriotism. They were guilty of genocide. Sohrabuddin, Ishrat Jehan, Sadiq Jamal Mehtar and various others were mercilessly gunned down after their kidnapping and housing in private bungalows. In one such they even raped Kauser bi, wife of Sohrabuddin.
Tulsiram Prajapati was a friend of Sohrabuddin and the sole witness of the encounter of him. He was taken to the police station to identify Sohrabuddin. The next day the fatal encounter death was the main news headline. Both the friends and Kauser had travelled together and were in the same bus on the way to Sangli from Hyderabad when the Andhra police stopped it. They took away Sohrabuddin. His wife said she would not leave her husband. The cops contacted Amit Shah who ordered them to take her as well.
The nature of the crime and the involvement of senior state police officers was a grave matter and hence further inquiry by CBI was justified. If this were so how serious it would be when it is found out as it really was found out that no other than the deputy state minister for home Amit Shah was involved in the matter? Nay, he was in fact taking contract from the Rajasthan marble mafia to finish off Sohrabuddin. He was running a racket. The huge amount of money Shah and the officers collected must have also gone to the table of the CM. A part of the donation that Modi gifted to Aseemanand must have been collected in this way.
The second encounter faked by Gujarat police in complicity with the Rajasthan police is that of Tulsiram Prajapati. The police had taken him to identify Sohrabuddin at a police station. The next day they killed Sohrabuddin. In the meantime Prajapati told Rubabuddin that he had met his brother in the police station. The brother took courage and filed a case against the police and that set the ball rolling.
The Gujarat police and its counterparts in Rajasthan told the reporters that Prajapati had thrown chilli powder in their eyes in his bid to escape. They chased and killed him. The circumstantial evidence shows that no such attempt was made to escape.
The Supreme Court was not satisfied with the investigation by the Gujarat police and handed over the case to CBI. It also agreed with the CBI counsel KTS Tulsi and Prajapati’s mother Narmadabai’s advocate Huzefi Ahamadi that the Gujarat police was biased and that the murder of Prajapati was on account of the murder of Sohrabuddin. Prajapati was the only witness who had seen Sohrabuddin and so he was also killed to remove evidence.
The Gujarat police was so obtuse as well as biased that it argued in the court that Prajapati’s death was 'not related to the death of Sohrabuddin Sheikh' and therefore no need for the CBI to inquire into it. But the apex court ruled that police from three states were involved in the murder of Prajapati and hence the need for CBI inquiry. The court chided the Gujarat police for taking such inordinate time of 3 and half years to file the charge sheet in the case. The CBI wanted to monitor the inquiry but the SC did not accept it and asked the agency to investigate afresh.
The latest case is that of Sadiq Jamal Mehtar. It also follows the same pattern. First declaring the victim as a LeT operative out to assassinate Modi and then faking an encounter. This time also there is interstate operation. Sadiq wanted to settle down in life and approached Ketan Tirodkar, a journalist. He referred Sadiq to his then friend Daya Naik, the famed encounter specialist of Mumbai police. Nayak took him in his custody and then handed him over to PI Tarun Barot of Gujarat police who came to the gate near National Park in Borivli in November 2002 for taking charge of Sadiq. On January 13, 2003 Sadiq was killed in a fake encounter in Naroda Patia. The police claimed that Sadiq went to meet Dawood gang member Tariq Praveen in connection with attempt on Modi’s life. Tirodkar filed a complaint against this and so the truth came out. (CBI to probe another Gujarat killing. Indian Express, June18, 2011).
Daya Naik tortured Sadiq for 4 to 5 weeks in order to extract his involvement to terror and then handed him to Gujarat police. Sadiq wanted charges of gambling and assault in Bhavnager dropped. There is no proof that he was even remotely involved in any kind of terror. At the most he was a small time offender. In transferring Sadiq to Gujarat police money must have changed hands. Barot and Naik must have pocketed their share. Ultimately the Gujarat government must have promoted Barot for doing such a daring work of killing a would-be assassin of the Chief Minister of the state.
In this case also the state government argued that the case of Sadiq was seven years old and lacks credibility. The judge MR Shah countered it saying that crime never dies. Furthermore the judge rejected the government’s request to let the Special Task Force investigate the matter. This is a slap in the face of the government of Modi. He has lost credibility.
Soon after the murder of Mehtar, Ketan Tirodkar had told a court that the murder was staged by the police. Knowing the startling disclosure the Gujarat police of Modi willfully sat on the case and did not investigation because they knew well what would come out of it. The government had suborned investigation and the very judicial process laid down by the Constitution of the country. Tirodkar had also revealed that a politician had asked for the transfer of Sadiq to Gujarat police. DG Vanzara was again directly connected with the transfer. He was the chief of DCB.

The involvement of the state of Gujarat is beyond doubt. Even Justice MR Shah observed; 'This court fails to appreciate how the state can oppose registration of a complaint, involving serious allegations on grounds of delay.'




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Not very intelligent, Mr Chidambaram. MJ Akbar Byline for September 11, 2011 Times of India

Ishrat Jahan’s encounter was an intelligence slip-up’ DNA July 7, 2010
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http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-modis-role-in-gujarat-riots-sc-verdict-on-monday/20110910.htm
Not very intelligent, Mr Chidambaram. MJ Akbar Byline for September 11, 2011 Times of India
CBI to probe another Gujarat killing.. Indian Express June 18, 2011.









Chapter 22
The world view of terrorism as a direct fall out of 9/11and the eclipsing of genocide
The attacks on the twin towers of the world trade centre in New York and Pentagon came handy to those people who regularly baited Muslims in India and lost no opportunity to malign them. Therefore, September 11, 2001 turned into another milestone in the saga of Muslims being subjected to discrimination and cruelty in India. Terrorism in the name of jihad was generalized in all sundry cases even when criminals and underworld people were caught. When Abu Salem was arrested a riot during Ganesh immersion ceremony in Fatehpura town of Gujarat was used by the police commissioner DD Tuteja to tarnish the whole Muslim community. He blamed Muslims for starting the Friday September 20, 2002 riots to protest against the arrest. The chief minister Narendra Modi had also blamed the Muslims when the riots started in Vadodra during the same time. There was absolutely no connection between the two. A 16 year old boy called Altaf Pathan went out to buy grocery when the police shot him dead without any provocation. This is reminiscent of October 26, 2001riots in Malegaon which the police blamed on Muslims and their following the footsteps of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. In fact the Muslims were busy in prayers and one of them wanted to distribute a pamphlet titled “Be Indian Buy Indian” calling for boycott of American and Jewish merchandise.
The post Godhra violence against the Muslims continued for many months and even years and it claimed Muslims casualties unabated. As ever the preparation was made in advance as per conspiracy to harm the Muslims. So even when the news of the arrest of Abu Salem had started trickling in the riots erupted. The Muslims were dazed by accusation as they could not imagine even in their wildest fancy as to how one is related to another, the arrest to the riots, analogically the boycott handbill to the Hindu Muslim tension.
There are changes which parallel India and the west. One is common perception on terrorism and Islamophobia. Most commonly seen is the rise of the Hindutva brand of nationalism called cultural nationalism in India and its position and support. It is in fact Israel which has come to represent the west as far as India is concerned. There are Israelis like the foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman who calls for the expulsion of the Israeli Arabs from the land they were born and lived in. The Hindutva groups including Abhinav Bharat applaud Israel and want to seek help from Israel to exterminate Muslims of India. Lt Col Shrikant Prasad Purohit has even liasoned with the Israelis to establish a Hindut Rashtra in India. Modi also shares the same ideology and the genocide is clearly aimed at what the RSS and its ideology stands for. According to Kapil Komireddi India is even more stauch supporter of Israel than the US. This radical change is on account of the rise of Hindutva. It is well established fact that the people in India favoured more Israel than their government at the centre. In 1971 during the oil embargo there were posters on the walls of public places in Poona city showing India a victim of the oil embargo and hence a fellow sufferer at the hands of the Arabs, a common enemy. What Purohit could not achieve with fewerAK47s Modi succeeded in with the incendiary white powder, gas cylinders, trishuls, and state sponsorship of all that happened in 2002. It would be wrong to view Purohit and Modi as unrelated. Their objectives are the same and it is also relevant to remember that it is the Gujarat of Modi which not only let Swami Aseemanand flourish with his anti minority movement and violence but Modi gifted government fund to the swami. Vajpayee, Advani and Modi visited the swami as did Purohit and Sunil Joshi. In fact Pragyasingh Thakur was based in Surat from where she was arrested. Moreover Malegaon and Modasa in Gujarat wer bombed precisely at the same time on September 29, 2008.
It would be incorrect to assert that Gujarat did not have any role in bomb attacks. Bharatbhai Riteshwar is also based in Surat and he provided money to Abhinav Bharat. He also went to the house of Member of Parliament Yogi Adinath in Gorakhpur with Sunil Joshi. Sabridham Ashram in the Dangs distict of Gujarat and Gorakhpur, Pune in Mahrashtra have many things in common as far as supply of RDX, arms and ammunition is concerned.
It was a defence strategy of the Hindutva to divert attention from it to the Muslims. While Modi and Praveen Togadia were supporting and funding Aseemanand the chief minister would repeat his refrain that Sohrabuddin was a terrorist caught with AK 47s he smuggled. Purohit had also collected AK 47s to kill Muslims but it did not get that kind of attention in the vernacular papers and electronic media except on certain occasions of arrests of the Hindutva activists accused in terrorism. Sandesh newspaper in Gujarat was always biased in reporting the pogroms although it were the Muslims who had mostly suffered in the genocide. Modi made it an election issue that he got Sohrabuddin killed because he was a terrorist and smuggler of arms whereas no chief minister has been vehemently opposed to Purohit and his ideology. It is this that has brought rich dividends to Modi at election time. Komireddi observes: “In Gandhi's home state, Narendra Modi, a rabidly anti-Muslim politician implicated in the anti-Muslim pogrom of 2002, continues to secure handsome mandates from the largely Hindu electorate.”
Indian foreign policy has undergone a sea change thanks to the activism of Hindutva forces. Even the recent move to accord full representation of Palestine at the UNO and especially India’s endorsement sounds hollow. That the Hindutva forces mock at it is foregone conclusion. “But if anyone can be accused of holding foreign policy hostage to religious bigotry, it is the Hindu nationalist BJP.” Modi’s visit to countries in the west creates an unusual stir for and against it.
Even when Israel and India differ the Hindutva would like to cover all this under the carpet to focus on their strategy of fighting ‘the other.’“The seeds of Israel's redemption are embedded in Zionism, which is concerned with housing people, not displacing them. Israel must merely embrace it. It will still be a paternalistic form of "pluralism", but it will be inclusive. On the other hand, Hindutva's very purpose is the disenfranchisement and abolition of religious minorities. So Israelis must wonder what has become of them, their nation, that their most fervid admirers in the most pro-Israeli country in the world happen to be fascists. Until Israel and India undertake an honest reappraisal of their friendship, those who care about the ideas of Herzl and Gandhi must acknowledge this much: theirs is an alliance deepened by prejudice.” Thanks to the Hindutva the prejudice deepens by the day.
The Israeli connection in the Bhiku chowk bomb blast of September 29, 2008 is very much a serious concern but not for the right wing groups as is the visit of Israeli military officers to Kashmir valley. They advocate a policy of settling the valley with Hindus to offset the demographic contour as has Israel done in the west bank and other parts of the occupied land of Palestine. It is not for nothing that the crowdg baying for the blood of Muslims in Gujarat chants that theywould serve pudding instead of milk but if you demand freedom in Kashmir they would tear you to pieces. So the overall situation of common interest that the Jewish state as well as India under the sway of Hindutva would target at the Muslims. This is rather illogical as the people in the rest of India do not advocate any freedom for the Kashmir valley as the people of the valley do.
So the Hindutva making an issue of the valley within the mainland India is communal to say the least and as Digvijay Singh says "I have always been saying from day one that all these are over all plans of the RSS, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) combine. They want to divert the attention of the people of the country. From the issue of involvement of Sangh activists in terror act in Malegaon, Ajmer dargah, Hyderabad, Samjhauta express, so its overall plan to divert attention form corruption done by BJP members." The involvement of Gujarat in terrorist activities as well as in the genocide are glaring example of how Hindutva rise has marginalized the real threat of terrorism and its incidents from time to time.
The weltanschauung on war on terrorism, its circumambient ethos of either with us or against us, Samuel Huntington’s Muslims have blood in their innards played havoc by creating prejudice against Islam and the Muslims. Modi could pepetrate genocide because of the atmosphere around the world. That Indian Muslims had nothing to do with either attacks in America or the militancy in the Kashmir valley were simply made no sense to the people in the charged atmosphere in the country and elsewhere in the world. It was in this context that the PM Vajpayee excoriated Muslims in the Goa enclave of his party and that is how he was swept over despite his difficulty in facing the world because of the blot of genocide. The genocide was foisted upon the victims in real time. First came 9/11 and then Modi won election in January-February 2002, VHP and RSS chose March 15 as the time to build a grand temple where the Babri mosque stood, on the heels of these followed the fire incident on Sabarmati express. As the preparations were made well in advance the fire incident started what was inevitable thanks to the charged atmosphere. All this happened within five months of the 9/11.
Even in America the Hindutva groups recouped and stared with restrengthened resolve to strike when the iron is hot kind of reaction to 9/11. As Frank Raj says: “right wing Hinduism in America [is] bent on spreading ‘Hindutva,’ a Nazi inspired philosophy of hate from India.”Thus Samantha Power proved right when she voiced concern for genocide which the US has supported. It is in this context that the genocide in Gujarat took place. The muted response of the George Bush Administration is a glaring inconsistency of this sort. How come the US did not show as much concern as it did in the past! Moreover India was a functional democracy and the largest so why did the Administration not react. One explanation, of course, is the phenomenon of 9/11 that engulfed the US.
In the words of Vijay Prashad, the George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies at Trinity College inHartford Connectticut : “More than a decade ago, I used the term "Yankee Hindutva" to describe the way Hindu chauvinism came into the United States. Eager to branch out to the Diaspora, the RSS and its subsidiaries ... took advantage of multiculturalism to build their foothold here. Not for the American audience an unadulterated anti-Muslim rhetoric (that would come only in some "safe" spaces, and more aggressively, after 9/11).” Thus the ethos of the opening century took a turn against the Muslims in the world and then happened in Gujarat 2002 what was a horrendous genocide well into the twenty first century.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/oct/25/india-israel-friendship-prejudice-muslim?newsfeed=true
http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/247448
Don't get involved with RSS: Digvijay warns Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
New Delhi, Thu, 27 Oct 2011 ANI
More dangerous than shariah: Hindutva. Frank Raj
Letter to A Young Hindu,” Vijay Prashad. www.passtheroti.com












Chapter 23
Narendra Modi: the real time avenger
Of all the controversial aspects of the chief minister of Gujarat the most unforgettable and inveterate is his peremptory nature to take revenge against those who oppose him. Ahsan Jafri opposed him in Jamnager election of 2002 by warning the people of his right wing ideology of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. He avenged his adversary to the content of his heart. He did the same with his potential opponent, Haren Pandya. This bachelor in the highest administrative office of the state must have had a streak of sadism and masochism that has remained shrouded as is his broken engagement with a little known young girl. He might have married her and then deserted. Pandya was shot through his left testicle which is only possible when the victim must have raised his haunches to proffer the bottom exterior. Or, which is also sadistic, some people must have raised the legs for a third to shoot him through. That is also surrogate sex. India is a huge country and yet this clinical feature of the personality veritably a subject for Freudian analysis has not attracted any attention.
However, the way Modi orchestrates his revenge leaves little doubt that he is sadistic. He does not waste any time to react to his real or imagined adversary. By trying to subjugate him he derives some pleasure. His face beams as his audience encore “Kill him. Kill” in response to his rhetorical question as to what should they do to Sohrabuddin a terrorist. The smirk on his face reflects the villain character Captain Claggart of Herman Melville who takes revenge upon Billy Budd. Handsome is as handsome does.
On May 12, 2011 the SC was going to take up IAS officer Pradeep Sharma’s petition that Modi had foisted four criminal cases against him as a vindictive move. Modi lost no time and slapped the fifth case against Sharma.
What is even worse Modi has made his administration disown the Constitution: “Gujarat has already disowned the Indian Constitution and the state apparatus has adjusted to the change.” When Ashis Nandy made this remark, Modi took immediate action by asking his administration to file a defamation case in the court. He wanted to humiliate such a senior journalist and writer for speaking out the truth.
In a more recent development a vital witness of the worst atrocities committed in a single place, Naroda Patia where nearly 800 Muslms were horribly killed and incinerated in a well, was killed in the broad day light on November 5, 2011. Nadeem Ahmad Sayid had provided Special Investigaion Team a mobile of Ashok Sindhi who had made clippings of murder and rape and arson. This was crucial evidence to nail some of the perpetrators of the genocide. He through his lawyer Mukul Sinha wanted to meet the SIT on November 4for “an urgent discussion on the Naroda Patiya case.” The lawyer was away but he informed SIT in person and the meeting was scheduled for November 5. Four men stabbed Nadeem and killed him instantly on the day the meeting was to take place. The 28 stab wounds can convince easily that they wanted to silence such crucial witness. He was done to death in the same brutal and instant manner as was Modi’s own minister Haren Pandya who was shot through his testicles. Pandya was killed to avenge for having leaked the important meeting of February 27, 2002 in which Modi in person instructed the police and the adminstation to let the Hindu fanatics take full revenge upon the Muslims.
The gangster who shot Pandya was reported to be Tulsiram Prajapati. To destroy this witness to the crime the state police apparatus was managed conveniently and in coordination with the police of neighbouring state of Rajsthan Tulsiram he was killed. In transferring the police officer most pliant to him Modi wrote on the file of the officer Vanzara. When police inspector Salunke wanted to question Tulsiram another officer Geetha Johari prevented him. And when she wanted to interrogate Tulsiram, he was bumped off the very next day.
What has emboldened Mode in such ventures is the kind of support some US multinational corporations are gratuitously giving him. For example Ford Motors is reportedly helping Modi to escape the stigma of visa being denied by issuing him certificate of merit. This is going to be an anathema to the Obama administration because it would truly and in most recent time prove Samantha Power to be correct. She had said during the campaign for election that the US had been in bad light for hobnobbing with those who perpetrate genocide one day and the very next day the US goes to the UNO to face the world. To her it was embarrassing. So in the current situation in Gujarat things are moving exactly in the direction from which Power wanted to prevent it. With her inside the adminsitation of Obama now it looks awkward how what is professed by the presiden and his recently established Atrocities Prevention Board is systematicallystymied by Ford Motors!
Modi is what Ashes Nandi calls a developmental despot and what Iranian Tolia calls in his letter to Tehelka, a hardliner and right wing ruler like the ones the US had supported in the past. How would now Power react to this?



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Gujarat: Blame The Middle Class By Ashis Nandy 14 January, 2008 Times of India
Narendra Modi: The New American Darling : Tehelka Magazine, Vol 8, Issue 44, Dated 05 Nov 2011













Chapter 24
Laying the trap
By describing Teesta Setalvad as an absconding accused the government of Narendra Modi is hell bent on hiding the nature of the murder and mayhem at Pandherwada and buy more time so the matter slide into oblivion. Modi cannot remain chief minister forever, anyway.
Those who visited Pandarwada at the earliest to assess what had happened found that it was state sponsored and well organized much in advance of the onset of the pogroms in the morning of March 1. In areas far away from each other in Pandharwada saw systematic cutting off electric supply by 9 pm of February 28. Along with it went off the telecommunication. This set the premonition of hunting and hounding that was to follow. Darkness and then followed the cutting any source of succour. Even water supply was cut off for the hunted and the hounded to exponentially multiply the misery and suffering in store for them. But first the treacherous ways to lure them into a trap.
There was what turned out to be a brief tragic lull. Rich landowner Patels advised their fellow villagers and townspeople to take shelter with them in their barns and compounds to avoid the bloodshed that was to follow. Unsuspectingly albeit apprehensively the Muslims bee lined after them as hapless sacrificial goats. There was no other way but to follow their fate on that fateful fatal day.
Among the goriest events were from Mora. An eerie announcement by a group that light would go out and phones would go off the next day sent chill down the spines of the beleaguered Muslims. Jaswant Patel told them that they could shelter themselves in his house which they hopefully did. No sooner did they enter than he locked the door on them and heavily fortified it from outside preventing their escape. Then he gave a call to those marauders lying in wait around the house and the attack started. Among the scores killed was a man left there to die, the attackers thought him dead. This survivor was a father of eight children. All his children were done to death horribly. No other than the well known village head, sarpanch Anil Modi, led the attack. They chased the victims, doused them with acid and burnt them alive.
The Patels are rich land owning community. Another betrayer was Mahindra Vakil. He also used the same trick of luring Muslims by giving them refuge in his house only to call the killers to attack them. He had told them: “Come to my house, I will save you. My house has a 10-foot high boundary wall and you will be safe.” Thus what decoy he deployed the survivors would never forget. He too used timber to block the door lest they escape. It was grisly strategy to trap the 70 hapless victims most of them were women and children. The survivors would never be able to erase from their memory how he shouted at the attackers to come and attack. A woman survived as she hid in the toilet to tell the saga of suffering and death of nearly 40 at one place. Full three days the corpses rotted and the living eked out bare existence by merging with the bodies of their dear and near ones before the police reached there.
What had happened in Sardarpura was different pattern of the same common design. Here the 33 Muslims had sought refuge in the house of a Muslim because it was the only pucca house or had brick walls. They had latched the door from inside. The extremists among the Hindus threw the electricity loaded rod amidst the hapless victims of Sheikh Colony. Some Muslims of the Pathan Colony tried to jump a wall and reach the locked house to save their neighbours and friends but the fanatic Patels blocked their way on both the sides of the lane.
The Muslims knew that what was coming to them. A day before the massacre a woman had gone to buy grocery from a Patel’s shop. The shop keeper told the woman, “Prepare pakodas (dumping) for the last time for your family.” The husband of the woman says, “We can’t believe the Patels were planning to target their own employees.”
At long last in November 2011 the guilty were convicted. The sarpanch Kachra Patel was also sentenced to life imprisonment. His son Mahesh feels the loss: “Those who did were others, we got trapped. We are running losses in agriculture, spending our earnings on court cases. We want the real culprits caught.” Dr Dvender Patel was junior to Modi in school in a nearby place and remembers a mute boy who was the son of a good painter and who also died with his family. Whatever little social fabric was there was torn apart by how the Patels laid the trap and what they did to their own neighbours and farmhands. The Sheikh lane was destroyed but the Nagories and Mansoories also suffered losses and mirgrated to other places.



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Day after the verdict; We don’t go there, the ghosts won’t allow us. Indian Express Noverember 11, 2011.




















Chapter 25
Children and atrocities
Children too were burnt alive with their parents. But another kind of atrocity was they were spared and were made to witness what happened to their parents. This kind of extreme punishment was the sowing of torments and depression for years to persist and hence a new ingenuity of the evil mind of the tormenters and murderers.
In Ladoo village of Mehsana the Hindus caught Karisma Rehman (5) and her brother Mohsin (12). They had caught their parents and poured petroleum on them. The parents pleaded them to leave their children. Karisma said repeatedly the requests of her parents: “Leave the children alone.” She could not make out anything further than this of the adult world’s treatment of her parents. “I don’t know what happened.” She repeatedly said. Her mind could not grasp the dark reality any further. However, her brother told the reporters “I recognize who did it.” He repeated the names of those who killed his parents.
However some children instinctively rushed to shelter themselves wherever they could. So in the night of March 1 there was a twelve year old Dilawar Sheikh of Sardarpura where he hid in a carton inside the kitchen and saved himself. He recalls what he saw nearly ten years ago: “My mother died near the entrance, with half her clothes pulled out. She was begging them for her life with her hands folded. The attackers told them to touch their feet. The Muslims even touhed their feet only to be burn with acid, which the attackers poured over them. There was hatred in their eyes.”
In the most horrifying scenes even children of 11 or 12 were forced to drink petrol and burning matches thrown at their mouths and they exploded into pieces. Such testimony retired jusdge belonging to Citizens for Peace and Justice recorded within months of the mass atrocities. In contrast the government of Narendra Modi did nothing to even record death of such children. This totally cussed and callous attitude of the administration and hence of the chief minister shows how the genocide was executed mercilessly to wipe out any trace of pity and remorse which humans share across all religious groups. What has then Modi bequeathed to the future generation of Gujarat and the rest of the country?
For them he has initiated an elaborate and fully and sumptuously state funded “District Sadbhavana Mission Implementation Matter.” According to this new diktat 13,500 village councils will welcome Modi and support his fast that he had undertaken three days in September 2011. The fast was in memory of what Gujarat had suffered during the earth quake and other humanitarian disasters including what happened in 2002. He made out that the post Godhra was no different than the natural disasters and a scourge for the state. His tone and tenor made it loud and clear that he had no remorse for what Muslims suffered. He even refused to accept the offer of a Muslim skull cap which Muslims divines tried to offer him as a good will gesture for harmony, peace and brotherhood. Now in November 2011 he wants a humongous programme of welcoming him by all the district and village level towns and cities to remind of his sadhbhavna. And there is a catch. The admistrative officers have a bounden duty to send the reports to the President of India and the Governor of his State! This amounts to another slap in the face of not just India but the world that this “developmental despot” of Gujarat currently on tour of China is a prodigious entrepreneur of business and his state fertile for their investment. So where is the need and place for remorse!
In contrast was what the Marathi dramatist and intellectual Vijay Tendulkar did. He told the children of a school in Mumbai that if he had a gun he would have shot and killed Modi for what he did in 2002. And Modi had the audacity to offer him a gun! Whose legacy will the children of India inherit? The insolence and criminal daring or the metaphor of moral courage of the dramatist?
Modi had not only conspired to forever change the equation of Hindu Muslim in Gujarat but he has persisted in the evilful venture of denying them a fair share in the development and growth of the country. Whatever is done to ameliorate the lot of the downtrodden Muslim is stiffly and inhumanly rejrected by him because he does not believe in minority majority politics even when the benefits accrue to the “internally displaced” who now live in ghettos. They were forced out of their houses as their houses burnt down in the pogroms and the relief camps they sought shelter in were peremptorily closed down by the chief minister who had skewed perception that they were breeding grounds or to put in his own phraseology, child producing factories.
Further more, not releasing funds meant for the Muslims especially for the victims of the genocide now existing in ghettos he has willfully denied them all succor. This is at odds with the ground reality that when a Hindu is killed in a riot or genocide he is paid two lakh rupees and when a Muslim (overwhelming of them in 2002) is killed he is grudgingly paid just one lakh rupees! The dead do not take the money to their grave while the school children going to schools face difficulties of boycott, segregation and non payment of stipend and scholarship as the children of other states including some states where Modi’s party is in power. Why should the children of the Muslim community continue to suffer even after nine years of the pogroms? A member of the National Commission for Minorities says that “Scholarships of at least 77,051 children are hanging fire as Gujarat has refused to release the money.” Why Gujarat under Modi is the only state of the Union of India that denies the Muslim children what is their rightful chance of self improvement through education? Is this not the continuation of the genocide whereby the whole generation of the Muslims in the state of Gujarat has to endure, murder, disenfranchisement, dispossession, expulsion, boycott, deprivement of what is nationally sanctioned benefits of education? If international intervention merits attention in present day India it is surely here because when the central government is a mute by stander in this kind of ‘apartheid’ there is need for serious concern. The suffering of the internally displaced constitutes a post-establishment of ICC at Hague event and merits attention as mass atrocities perpetrated by a state of the union of India which did not intervene to stop the genocide nor did it take any step to ameliorate the lot of the victims through its own intervention. The plight of the children is a legacy of the genocide. The standoff between the centre which offers 75% money on the payment on table of 25% by the state is dwindling whatever little the victim survivours could eke out with in such necessitious condition in their ghettos.


Children spared only to watch parents burnt. The Telegraph March 4, 2002.
‘Acid thrown on those who got out, those left were burnt alive.’ Indian Express, November 10, 2011.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/minorities-panel-to-modi-we-need-to-meet-discuss-muslim-plight/874981/

Chapter 26
Balance sheet

What has the Hindutva achieved by this first ever genocide of Muslims? They have shown clearly that when the executive order like Narendra Modi’s is given it is a green signal and consent that they could perpetrate massacre of Muslims with maximum brutal force. Of course this is based on the assumption that full preplanning and preparations have already been made for it and also for the aftermath of covering up the ignominy and also thorough readiness for legal battle ahead.

As it had happened at the time of the partition a time comes as it did to the Muslims in Gujarat 2002 when there is no one left to save them. There were some Muslims in a delegation which included Swami Agnivesh, Rear Admiral Ramdas, Nirmala Deshpande, Valson Thampu, Father Dominic Immanuel, the Maulanas of Jamait-e-Islami and Jamait-e- Ulema-e-Hind. They heard the grief of the people and at night they wanted to stop over at a Hindu religious hall. But the Hindutva activists did not allow the Muslims, the rest including the Christians were welcome there. So they went to Sabarmati Ashram. The extremist threatened them again that they would blast bombs. The delegation reminded the threatening hordes that the prime minister was to visit the place the next day, April 5, 2002 and it would be bad publicity. They retorted: “This has nothing to do with Vajpayee or Modi. This is dharma yudh and we do not want Muslims around.” Helplessly Ramdas and Nirmala contacted the army which gave them shelter.

Such a time does come as it happened to the Muslims who were sheltered in the official residence of Maulana Azad. They would have also been butchered and therefore they had to go to Nehru for help.

Another lesson learnt is that there are extremists who would never abandon the ideology, one of them was Vajpayee, about whom Agnivesh said: “After the 2002 election and Modi’s victory, Vajpayee was once asked by a reporter if they would repeat the Gujarat experiment in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan which were going to the polls. Vajpayee’s reply was dangerous and irresponsible. As PM, he asked, “Will Godhra be repeated?” No prime minister has made such a dirty statement. Without waiting for what the inquiry said, he had made up his mind on who was behind Godhra and justified the genocide. That’s when we realised this entire party is debased.”
If that is how the PM of India can say tongue in cheek that his party and the Hindutva would again repeat genocide if “provoked” then the Muslims in India need to work with fellow Indians who love justice and peace. But they also must use the Indian diaspora to take up the matter of the Gujarat genocide to the newly established Atrocities Prevention Board of the Obama government and also struggle to take the matter through the optional protocol to UNO. Full ten years would soon be over and yet the architect of it, Modi, lives arrogantly as if nothing has happened and he is immaculate.

There is the need to document all the details as Teesta Setalvad has done, for example, in unearthing the common design and state complicity in the genocide. What Modi said in the evening meeting on February 27 and more ominous is the preparation of the genocide in Lunawada village of Sabarkantha on the same day. In that meeting the Concerned Citizens Tribunal found: “ A phone call from the house of one Dr Yogesh Ramanlal Pandya (Godhra) to Dr Anil Patel (member of Gujarat’s Doctor’s Cell) calling him for the meeting as also Dr Chandrakant Pandya (Kalol) Ashok Bhatt (then state health minister) who was at that point sitting at the Godhra Collectorate was also called. Similarly then state transport minister Prabhatsinh had also attended this meeting at which 40-50 top leadership of the BJP/RSS/VHP/Bajrang Dal met to decide the manner to use kerosene, petrol for arson and other methods of killing.”
This surely is how the VHP, BJP, Bajrang Dal, RSS in collusion with Modi and his ministers and the police were preparing for the genocide that was to begin the next day. The same exposes the lie that the reaction of the extremist Hindus was spontaneous. It makes clear that the fire accident was transformed into an attack by Muslims on Hindus. It was the Armenian Christian diaspora in the US that collected the details of the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 and steadily pursued it for a number of decades and finally they got the recognition by the UN and that has prevened Turkey’s entry in the European Union. Muslims and fair minded fellow Indians must emulate the Armenians to bring Modi to book. The central government and the courts have squandered time and energy and the Muslims lack resources.
The Hindutva brigand is at it again these days of Advani’s another yatra purportedly against corruption but for winning support for Hindutva by not letting the people forget its presence and its larger albeit hidden agenda. This is one more reason why the Muslims as well as all the fair minded people in India must not let Gujarat 2002 slide into a history footnote. As Ravinder Kaur has observed: “Mr. Advani routinely describes the massacre of Sikhs as a state-orchestrated pogrom while the Gujarat violence for him is merely a ‘riot' that happened spontaneously as an emotional response to the Godhra incident. It couldn't be more ironical and insidious than this: to claim to feel the pain and disenchantment of one group of victims of state violence only in order to dismiss the suffering of another group.”
Advani is also responsible for the genocide because Modi was his protégé and he always issued clean chits to him whenever people criticized Modi in parliament or outside. He and Vajpayee should be held accountable for misleading the people. This cannot not be done until an international effort is made by all the right minded and law abiding people of India and outside the country.
The gravamen of the accusation against Modi is that he wanted to destroy the equitable relationship in dealing with Muslims and Hindus in riots and therefore he engineered genocide towards this end. His patron Advani is even more dangerous not just because he defended Modi but he used the one-to-one theory inversely by calling 1984 anti Sikh massacres more serious than the ‘riot’ of 2002 which it was not because it was a well planned and well financed genocide. Both the harbingers of death to Muslims are accused of the same crimes against humanity. Both were powered by Hindutva.
Hindutva can also bypass the Constitution of India. As Ashish Nandy remarked that “Gujarat has already disowned the Indian Constitution and the state apparatus has adjusted to the change…Recovering Gujarat from its urban middle class will not be easy. The class has found in militant religious nationalism a new self- respect and a new virtual identity as a martial community, the way Bengali babus, Maharashtrian Brahmins and Kashmiri Muslims at different times have sought salvation in violence. In Gujarat this class has smelt blood, for it does not have to do the killings but can plan, finance and coordinate them with impunity. The actual killers are the lowest of the low, mostly tribals and Dalits. The middle class controls the media and education, which have become hate factories in recent times. And they receive spirited support from most non-resident Indians who, at a safe distance from India, can afford to be more nationalist, bloodthirsty, and irresponsible.”
In the light of all this it is even more binding on the Muslims that they clutch the laws of the land and liase with the down trodden classes and castes that it does not bode well for the country when one downtrodden group is set against or set upon another. The KHAM politics of yore can not be refashioned if it aims at the disunity of the country. The middle class represented by the lady professor buying swrod in Amritsar has surfeited on the newly acquired wealth. But times change and so does money change hands. In the changing scenario the Constitution of the country is the steady keel to keep the country afloat. The middle class can not afford to neglect it for long.
A very disturbance legacy of Gujart 2002 is that those who struggle to establish facts to obtain justice will pay with their life. Given this it is difficult to see light at the end of the tunnel. In this regard Mallika Sarabhai says on the gruesome murder of Nadeem a witness in 2002 genocide: “His is yet another casualty among the truth seekers of Gujarat. In all probability, this is another murder which will go unpunished; or worse, innocents will languish in jail for decades for his murder before being let off due to lack of evidence.” She quotes how Nadeem had feared for his and his family’s safety and security:"It is very difficult to hold out to the constant threats to our families and the simultaneous bribes and promises of further goodies." One Nadeem had told her, "Ben, my life is under constant threat. I am afraid they will get to me before I can testify."
Such murders as that of Nadeem and many before him and the uncertain but definite number of other witnesses that will follow show the utter failure of the judicial and investigation system in the country. Past records of communal violence also show it but when it is about Gujarat 2002 it is not just communal violence but organized, calculatedly executed genocide with follow up in covering the criminal acts on a massive scale. Those engaged in perpetrating the crimes right up to the CM are well versed in the evil deeds. For example every murder of a witness immediately saves them from being interrorgated, accused and convicted of crimes against humanity. Sarabhai remarks, “Each murder is reduced to a new item and is treated as a mere statistic.” The overall impact of genocide is lessened. The severity of the crimes is pushed back in the memory.
The various Commissions of Inquiry constituted by the government also take inordinately long time to probe until then the prosecution of the guilty has to wait and that kills more time. In the case of Gujart 2002 Nanavati-Shah (now Mehta) commission is still carrying on even when nearly 10 years have passed. Jusictice Nanavati is doing it for huge money at stake and Shah was known to be biased. After his death Akshay Mehta joined. He is notorious for granting bail to the worst offender of crimes of the genocide, Babu Bajrangi. The commission is taking too much time and at time is quite biased against the Muslims.
Justice UC Bannerji commission was appointed by the central government to probe the burning of the train compartment. It was more prompt and submitted report which ruled out that Muslims had burnt Sabarmati express compartment S6. It was an accident and not a planned attack by Muslims.
The biases aginst the Muslims in the working of the commissions and SITs have always been there. For example in the case of the Bhagalpur riots of 1989 the chairman of the three member commission Justice RN Prasad was outrageously biased against the Muslims. He had remarked that Muslims should avoid contact with the ISI if they want restoration of trust in them. How the police and politicians are intensely biased can be seen in what Prasad said and what no other than the president of BJP LK Advani was accused by the Members report of Bhagalpur commission of resorting to threat of rioting unless Muslims ‘identify with Hindutva.’ This refrain of the RSS, VHP etc has continued from the days of the rath yatra to the misrule of his protégé Modi. Lack of impartiality and professionalism in the investigation in Gujarat is delaying justice to the victims.
One of the most needful and salutary means of saving the country from the menace of persistent problem of communal violence is filing of objective statement of what is called First Information Report. This is absolutely unavoidable if the country has to survive asa democaracy or before more chaos descends on what is already so chaotic. Recording of FIR should be made more complainants friendly. In Gujarat 2002 there was no less than the rule of a despot and his system was despot friendly apart from being enemical to Muslims. There was total negligence of this because the right wing groups like BJP, Shiv Sena survive on communalism. Congress uses the same selectively and opportunely despite its protestation of secularism.To recall experience from the past the the PUDR has this to say on its report on Bhagalpur: “The problem arising from the lack of a dead body is compounded by the fear of the people in approaching the police, for many policemen are known to have directly participated in the rioting. Since it is upto the police to register an FIR, intimidation, deliberate obstruction at the thana or even refusal to file complaint are only to be expected. In such a situation, the mere filing of an FIR is a substantial gain for the victim.” That is what Ahsan Jafri’s widow went through, his body was never found as was the bodies of hundreds of others.
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“The whole BJP is debased.” Tehelka Magazine, Vol 4, Issue 44, Dated Nov 17, 2007
Teesta Setalvad’s tabular presentation of the wider conspiracy submitted to SIT.

1984 and the violence of memory. Ravinder Kaur Communalism Watch October 31, 2011.

Gujarat: Blame The Middle Class By Ashis Nandy 14 January, 2008toi
http://communalism.blogspot.com/2011/11/nadeem-saiyed-yet-another-truth-seeker.html
Daily News and Analysis, Nov 6, 2011
Recalling Bhagalpur: A Report on the Aftermath of the 1989 Riots. People’s Union for Democratic Rights
The Times of India January 30, 1993. See also Panchjana, RSS magazine of that time.



















Chapter 27
‘Can Modi give back my daughter?’

Ishrat Jahan was a student of BSC in Guru Nanak Khalsa college of Mumbai. She was from a family hailing from Bihar, she lived in Mumbra. She eked out existence by taking tuition and doing embroidery works. Left home on June 12, 2004 and was killed on 15. Along with her in the blue Tata Indica also killed were Javed Ghulam Sheikh alias Pranesh Kumar Pillai (Pune), Jishan Johar alias Abdul Ghani of Gujranwala, Pakistan and Amjad Ali Akbarali Rana alias Salim of Haveli Diwan, Pakistan. Ghazwa times of Lashkaretoiba claimed her as a member but in late May, 2007 Jama't-ud-Da'wah apologized that she was not a member of LeTeT member. This was disputed as was David Headley’s claims that she was LeT member. In August 2011 the metropolitan court ruled that she died in a fake encounter early morning, in deserted place, no witness was there, nor was ID recovered, no wounds were caused to police in fierce firing. Gujarat police claimed received information from Mumbai police which denied it. According to PUCL, the Gujarat police did not follow normal procedures in their investigations. No FIR was lodged with the local area police station where the encounter occurred, No charge sheet, no inquest report, and no witness statement was recorded. No bullet marks or damage was observed on the road or surrounding area.
In the night leading to the wee hours of the next d ayrigor mortis had set in between 11 p.m. and midnight. The police planted explosives and weapons on the dead bodies. The police ascribed motives of the cops as to please Modi and get promotion. Gujarat government stayed report on September 9, 2009. Mahrashtra Minoritties Commission demanded probe. Headley said that she was LeT member but On the direction of division bench of Justices Jayant Patel and Abhilasha Kumari of Gujarat High Court, the NIA stated in a letter that "David Colman Headley making statement on Ishrat Jahan is purely in the nature of hearsay, it does not have any evidentiary value"
A bench comprising Justices Jayant Patel and Abhilasha Kumari declared that the case is of of national and should be viewed in broader perspective. Mukul Sinha and IH Syed expressed fear that there was likelihood of witnesses being influenced.
Much after this in the last week of November the High Court of Gujarat declared that Ishrat Jahan encounter was fake. The judges of Gujart High Court have ruled that a fresh FIR in the murder of Ishrat Jahan and others under section 302 (punishment for murder) should be registered. At the same time her family has called for explanation from Narendra Modi because as the chief minister of the state the murder was carried out in his name. The cops had claimed that Modi was under threat from terrorists for saving his life that they had killed the four terrorists. As the chief minister is hectoring not only within his state and elsewhere in India he is now reaching to far corners of the world like China where in the fanfare of development of his state he is trying to hide the repeated crimes like abduction of innocent people, long arbitrary detention and cold blooded murder by his cops are surfacing almost every month. These constitute mass atrocities against which President Barack Obama has established Atrocities Prevention Board. There is no question that Indian courts are at times functioning well but they are so much encumbered by delays, murder of vital witnesses, state government meddling in the judicial process, suborning and subversion of it, and deliberate theft of the case papers that at times need for a global watch on Gujarat has become necessary. What better opportunity than now when Modi is foreshadowed as the next leader of India by no other than the US embassy in India itself and his growing economic clout thanks to the enterprising people and by no means Modi as the chief minister. He has bewitched even the Chinese. Time for more Indians to sit up and take note and the international community to be wary of what murky goings are there behind the façade of development.
His own party leader and Prime Minister, AB Vajpayee, fell a victim to his demagoguery when he condoned the genocide in Gujarat by remarking that the Muslims did not protest against it as loudly as they should. How loudly did he himself protest against his fellow party man and chief minister?
The staged murders have brought ill repute to India. They were a sequel to the genocide and were an outgrowth of it. The right wing Hindu party that rules the state and ruled at the centre had piggy rode the US in its so called war on terror in the wake of 9/11. Ishrat Jahan Raza was a 19-year-old college girl who was kidnapped along with Javed Sheikh alias Pranesh Pillai, Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar and was killed before the bogus and staged shootout by Ahmadabad Crime Branch on June 15, 2004. The central government had fed wrong information on her to the FBI of US. Based on this the US reacted mutely when the murder took place because India had dubbed her as a terrorist and member of the Lashkar-e-Toiba. Richard Headley, the under cover FBI agent, also played his share in the dirty game of slander.
When the metropolitan Judge SP Tamang submitted his report on September 7, 2009 he blamed the senior police officers of Gujarat state who did it for their own benefit. But then the question is who their benefactor was?
Of the 21 cops involved there are those who were quite senior and close aides of Modi. In a functioning democracy the cops do not have to be close aides of the chief minister but the way Modi has ruled for the last ten years officers like Vanzara and Amit Shah have been hand in glove relationship. Most of them are from Indian Police Service: JCP (crime branch) P.P. Pande, DIG D.G. Vanzara, ACP G.L. Singhal and ACP N.K. Amin.
True indeed that the section 302 means death penalty for the crime but the question has been when will the veil be lifted from Modi’s face as he could not just shrug his shoulders that he is not involved. His top officers have been carrying on such murders and passing them off as deshbhakti or patriotism as the victims were terrorists out to kill Modi. There are multiple crimes which the police have committed. They have stolen cars and abandoned them after dumping the bodies on the road. This is a repeat performance. The cops had stolen such a vehicle in the case of Sohrabuddin. It was stolen from Wardha in Maharashtra. There is an interstate coordination and complicity in such crimes for which the central government must be held responsible for not taking up the matter with Modi. Sometimes back when Ahmadabad was bombed the vehicles were stolen from Vasai in Mumbai. Because the suspects were Muslims such hue and cry was made in the media and especially mainstream papers. In contrast there is questionable silence when the vehicles are found in fake encounters like the ones in Gujarat and ominously the one at the headquarters of the RSS in Nagpur. Why do the police and Hindutva groups are let off the hook?
The cops are rarely punished if ever. The conviction rate is any way very low. This has created a huge gulf between the minority community and the government and threatens to divide the society vertically between two groups of people. Added fuel to this cauldron is the every ready theory of the Hindu right that the government is appeasing the Muslims even when they are at the receiving end. Can the trend turn around and the hopes of the bereaved family be fulfilled: “They [the killer cops] should be hanged. They have ruined our lives. They killed my innocent daughter." Modi’s record in dealing with the cops’ complicity in the genocide is despicable. Even in the case of the extra judicial killings the cops were taking protracted time to cover up or throw blame on others when the state government was fiddling away its precious time. The expression of the father of Javed, Pillai is understandable: "I am a much relieved person because with this none will accuse me as the father of a terrorist." When such matters were taking place Modi was engaged in another gimmick. He tried to pressurize the SC into forming a new Special Investigation Team in November last year. And on Monday November 20, 2011 he was at his old tricks again: “After no to kaffiyeh, Modi says yes to saffron shawl.” He accepted a saffron shawl [after declining the kaffiyeh] with tridents, damru and “Om Namah Shivayah” printed on it along with statues of Lord Hanuman and Lord Krishna, and a fig leaf of being politically correct, an image of the shrine of Ajmer. Can this fig leaf hide the fake encounters and the genocide that were being probed and adjudged in courts in the state and outside the state? His deafening silence on the complicity of his cops and administration is exponentially proclaiming to the world that what was stage managed murders and massacres were being eclipsed by the antics and acrobatics of Modi and his cohorts.

Post scriptum
On Monday November 21, 2011 the SIT submitted to the Gujarat High court that Ishrat Jahan encounter was fake, a stage managed killing. As Modi has dared and taunted Sonia Gandhi and the central government to hang him for the death of Sohrabuddin, now into this list of fake encounters or stage managed killings by cops of Modi is added the murder of Ishrat Jahan, Javed Sheikh alias Pranesh Pillai, Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar. As Modi is duty bound by the constitution of the country and is under the legal and moral responsibility has he the courage and probity to offer him to the lawful authorities and own up the crimes that his cops committed for his sake? Will he please ask the centre to hang him, as has been his wont in 2007 election?

Chapter 28
Common Design

It took more than five years for the investigation agencies, the courts and the government to know that the bomb blasts in Malegaon 2006 was the handiwork of the RSS, Hindutva, Abhinav Bharat, Bajrang Dal and VHP. And when irrefutable charges against the Hindutva groups became evident there is confusion according to some so called experts on terrorism. In other words they don’t want to countenance Hindutva terror because they cannot believe that Hindu extremists could be also terrorists. This scatter brained phenomenon is most notable in India’s ubiquitous commentator on terror, B Raman. He cannot find any better word and describes the startling disclosure of Malegaon 2006 and the bail given to the nine accused as confusion. He calls it apitome of confusion. This parallels in a way with due qualification the disclosures in Ishrat Jahan and other murder cases, Sardarpura massacre, etc.
What is preeminently epitome of terror is strangely transformed into epitome of confusion just because some hard core Hindus cannot accept that extremists could also be terrorists in their fold. This is precisely the dilemma in India or has been made into one by the Hindutva. Those who have made it what it is include Subodh Kumar Jaiswal, KP Raghuvanshi, Sanjay Khaire of Mahrashtra ATS, and Rajwardhan of Maharashtra police as far as Malegaon 2006 is concerned. And they have their counterparts in the Andhra police, Gujarat police, and elsewhere. They extracted confession under extreme torturous punishment in prison and framed Muslims. The two home ministers who cannot escape the blame, they were deputy chief minister and home minister Chhagan Bhujbad and RR Patil. It looked at times that they had accepted brief from some agency which wanted to stigmatize the Ahle Hadish group which is why Dr Farogh Magdumi, Noorulhodda, Dr Salman Farsi were framed among others. No proof exists to attract either MOCOCA or terrorism charges against them. In Gujarat too the Vanzara group was busy with the same brief given to them. At times they verge on other cases. For example inspector Narendra Amin is involved in killing Sohrabuddin and Kauser bi but is also the killer of Mujahid Salim right in a police station in Hyderabad.
The situation in Gujarat is far worse as it is multiplied many times more. The latest news in the case of Ishrat Jahan leaves no doubt that this is the epitome of terror. It became a state policy to kill innocent Muslims by dubbing them terrorists. The mob terrorists hatched by Hindutva slowly gave way to fake encounter terrorism. The Detection of Crime Branch Ahmadabad (the dungeon which Schweta Bhatt rightly feared most when her husband Sanjiv was arrested and locked up there, the notorious Gaikwad Haveli) wrote in its first FIR on Ishrat Jahan and the three others that she was “a woman terrorist whose name and address were not known And yet they found her ID card neat and clean. They also got the identification of the other three so facilely according to hindsight. Then where did their painstaking work go?
A little of it was unveiled by the newspapers thanks to their common persuit along with human rights activists. Ishrat along with the others was killed in the morning and by 8.30 am of the same day June 15, 2004 the police had all the details of the plot and what happened. Police inspector of Detection of Crime Bureau JG Parmar had everything at his finger tips. The parallel runs with Malegaon blasts case of 2006. The police abandoned the questioning of 29 Hindus suspected along with the rich yarn merchant and started arresting Muslim youths who had no known record of any crime. For lack of any evidence they are now given bail. Sanjay Khaire who did field work and Jaiswal who wrote the ATS report also had all the details at their finger tips. Most amazing is that the servant of Shabbir Masiullah, Atif. For three weeks he was tortured extremely and during this time he identified Mohammad Ali and Asif Khan according to what the police wanted. He had never met them in life till the identification parade. He submitted an affidavit to Allahabad court and has been now deposing before NIA. He asserts that his confession was under duress and in most dehumanizing condition of torture. In the case of Gujarat and especially in the fake encounter of Ishrat and others the Gujarat police under Vanzara in charge of the whole operation had every thing made simple. In the name of patriortsm they were allowed to kill freely whom they liked and felt as terrorists.
There is copy cat duplication. In the case of Malegaon the overwhelming number of Muslims killed in 2001 riots was made to fit in the conspiracy that the Muslim terrorists wanted to blow bombs to avenge the high casualties of Muslims. The opeing paragraphs of Ishrat Jahan case found Godhra as the convenient cause of the terrorists out to kill Modi to avenge the killing of Muslims in post Godhra genocide. Then begins the determination of the target spot and agencies. In the case of Malegaon the spots were the gaveyard mosque and the adjoining chowk around Tipu Sultan tower called Mushawarat chowk. The agency was of course SIMI. In Gujarat the location was Gandhinager in Ahmadabad where the chief minister lives because his life was in danger according to this conrpiracy theory. The “Pakistani fidayeen and Javed aim to kill the Gujarat chief minister in a suicide attack. And for this they’ve been doing recces in Ahmadabad and Gandhinager of the chief minister’s residemce, office and routs he travels.” That Modi enjoys fool proof security is thrown to the wind. Next the agency is Pakistan based LeT because it is a border state. This is the surest recipe of a terrorist attack due to home consumption and the Hindutva agenda.
Next comes elaborate network:”Fifteen days back , an intelligence input had been provided to Ahmadabad Commissioner of Police KR Kaushik by intelligence sources. From Kashmir, two Pakistani fidayeen who are from LeT have separately left for Ahmadabad. Their names are (1) Zeeshan Johar alias Janbaaz alias Abdulgani, a resident of Narnanka Kalerbadi, district Gujranwala, Punjab, Pakistan; (2) Amjadali Akbarali Rana alias Salim alias Chandu alias Rajkumar, a resident of Haveli Diwan, Bhalwal district, Sargoda, Punjab, Pakistan. Apart from that, Javed—a Lashkar operative from Pune, Maharashtra--has been setting the social networkfor these two Pakistani fidayeen.”
Where from have the police got this information? Or, rather whose brain has done so much research to prepare this logistics? To the police of Gujarat as well as Malegaon in Maharashtra life in the words of Virginia Woolfe is a series of symmetrically designed street lights. How is this conception amenable to the towns where pogroms and genocide are orchestrated by the state?
In or der to carry out the plan six teams of police came into action. This plan also visaged assistant commissioner of police PP Pandey and additional commissioner DG Vanzara and another ACP GL Singhal recourse to tip offs that were startling, explosive and zeroed in on Ishrat and group near the airport. Much before this at 11 pm of June 15 Pandey got specific intelligence through a ‘personal source’ of the attack that was likely to result next day. Thus the earliest information Kaushik received he passed it to Vanzara who got the six teams ready and then Amin intercepted the car and engaged the dreaded terrorists. There was gun fight and then the four were killed.
After metropolitan magistrate Tamang rubbished this on scientific analysis of the foot and rigour mortis and other grounds of forensic science there are other evidence like their abduction, etc. for this how much expenditure the government must have borne is left to the imagination of the tax payers or even the ordinary people. Seven years have passed and Modi has reaped good harvest at the election what has India gained? In comparision Malegaon youths languished in prison for full five years and then given bail while the real terrorists have been at large. In both the cases of Gujarat and Malegaon the bogus cases have served their aims. One, Gujarat genocide as work of Hindutva has been allowed to eclipse so has the Hindutva terror in Malegaon. What has India gained by these?
At 1.30 am. Amin took position to attack and the attack came at 4 am. In the case of Malegaon there was police alert on September 1, 2006 and there was close watch by circuit camera and metal detection just before September 8. Even the video camera was ready and then the bombs exploded. Gujarat took seven years to find the truth and Malegaon five years to know that the accused were not the ones who exploded bombs. Where is the country heading?
If Hindutva forces are allowed to reign they would lead the country, and not just a state, to square one, Gujarat 2002. It was a Holi day on March 29, 2002. Only on the previous day Modi was summoned to Delhi by the Prime Minister which many believed was to receive a dressing down from Vajpayee but RSS office holder MG Vaidy patted him for his performance, “no government could have done more than this.” But independent minded people like Kiriti Bhatt [a coaccused with George Fernandes in Baroda emergency era dynamite case] did not agree. He curtly remarked “Modi being called to Delhi is just a show, to ask for the score.” Bhatt believed that the mobs were still committing “low intensity, high precision violence” against the hapless Muslims.
Even after a whole month had passed since the post Godhra violence there was murder and mayhem and arson on the very day of Holi as Baroda, Ahmadabad, Anand, Kadi, Borsad and Viramgam witnessed violence against the Muslims. Six of them were killed and curfew was imposed in all these areas. With Hindutva forces improving their bomb making skills and expertise is there still any hope left for the country?
Wikipaedia
‘2 fidayeen have left for Ahmadabad…they and Javed aim tokill Modi’indian Express November 23, 2011.
http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-why-politicising-the-malegaon-case-is-dangerous-raman/20111117.htm
Parivar pat for Modi. Indian Express March 28, 2002.
Sack Mode to say Gujarat, say activists. Times of India, March 29, 2002.
Escalated violence leaves 6 dead, curfew imposed in Gujarat. Asian Age, March 31, 2002.




















Chapter 29

Pracharak Architect

Chief Minister Narendra Modi was essentially a head of the RSS unit. This was the driving force which shaped the genocide. A series of actual deeds apart from what went before in this argument will surely pillory him as the guiltiest person. Two of the worst massacres that undisputedly made the events as ‘a problem from hell’, that is genocide, were Gulberg society mass atrocities including how Ahsan Jafri was killed and then the killers played cricket with his skull; and, Naroda Patia where as many as 800 are thought to have lost their life. They were herded into the well where they embraced each other and prayed the almighty for they knew their end was fixed-- before they were incinerated. The genocide was well planned as it can be seen that Modi had his way in every decision with total disregard to civilized norms. He got a VHP hardcore officer of the police, PN Barot, to investigate Naroda Patia. This Modi did despite protest against the appointment.
Modi defiantly said that he would control the “riots resulting from the natural and justified anger of the people” within 72 hours. This was the exact time limit he had secretly told the police and the party men and cadres of the Bajrang Dal and RSS to use to cause maximum destruction of life and property of the Muslims. He was equally insolent in a tit for tat and has continued since then for the last ten years in dealing with the parliament and the central government. He most imprudently remarked that violence would continue as long as the parliament is in session where the opposition leaders criticize him and his government. “The petrol was sprinkled from Delhi to stoke the Gujrat fire. Every morning one former Prime Minister is making a statement which is igniting the violence here.”
He even openly insulted the prime minister who came from his own party, Vajpayee. Whent the prime minister wanted to form an all party committee under Governor Sundersingh Bhandari to organize the rehabilitation of the genocide victims he very seditiously ignored it and let a whole week pass without giving any thought to it. Then the state government issued a note that the matter concerned with only the “relief camp”. Even the relief camps he hastily and so inhumanly closed down on July 1, 2002. The South Asia Human Rights Committee under Kuldip Nayar held Modi responsible for the Godhra incident and the post Godhra violence because he failed to take action. Where he did take action, Modi was even more offending as his government made it clear thatpolice officers have either to fall in line or get sidelined, 27 officers were penalized at once when they were sidelined.
The pracharak, group leader of the Hindu right, had sowed the seeds of hatred against and extermination of the minority Muslim community. He reaped the crop abundtantly.
Although Malegaon in Mahrashtra and Gujarat are two disparate entities as far as communal riots, genocide or even terrorism is concerned but the same common design is seen there. The local police and the ATS Mumbai go back to partition in writing the chargesheet of Malegaon 2006 blasts. That is also the story of Gujarat fake encounters and the genocide: “After Partition in 1947, two nations, India and Pakistan, came into existence. Pakistan was created on the basis of religious fundamentalism, whereas India remained a secular state. In order to grab Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan fought three wars against India, the last insurgency was made in Kargil. It was the continuation of Pakistan’s warring tendency. In Gujarat, the Godhra carnage was followed by largescale riots and arson. The ISI and jihadi organisations from Pakistan, in association with underworld gangsters and notorious gangs, took advantage of the situation arising from the riots to target Gujarat. This fact is clearly established by various acts of terrorism such as the attack on Akshardham, the conspiracy to kill Narendra Modi and Pravin Togadia in Ahmedabad by local LeT terrorists, namely Shahid Bakshi and Samir Khan Pathan, and the firing on VHP general secretary Dr Jaideep Patel.” The quoted content is found in the chargesheets of the two fake encounters of Sohrabuddin and Ishrat Jhan. In the same wayBakshi and Pathan were proved not to be terrorists, a fact the police clearly missed in preparing chargesheets. It looks as if the police were briefed to name Muslims as terrorists and kill them. The Intelligence Bureau senior officer Rajinder Kumar was very close to Modi when the Gujarat CM was election observer of Punjab. It was Kumar who called the burning of the S6 compartment of Sabarmati express as the attack of terrorists and agents of ISI and he again prepared report on Ishrat Jahan as an agent of LeT and ISI. Thus Gujarat genocide was scripted by higher ups in the intelligence wings of India as well as the chief minister.
It is time for India to take Gujarat 2002 genocide seriously because it involves several states like Mahrashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, and UP etc. The Hindutva groups had brought weapons from UP, Punjab, and they had Muslims abducted, kept in long arbitrary detention in Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh. This was nothing else but extraordinary renditions and then murdering of them or framing them up in crimes they had not committed. How could the senior police officers do all these without the approval of Modi?

Thus the far reaching implication of India being sucked into a cauldron of communalism and pogroms is ominous. Martha Nussbaum was seriously concerned with how the genocide in Gujarat would affect the US. Inversely it would spell doom for democracy should the US continue to ignore it.
In the words of Samanta Power genocide is a problem from hell. It was Satan who wallowed in the dark and burning lake in hell and returned to earth to take revenge. In this archetypal prototype of Modi the Newtonian explanation of action and reaction is absurdly anachronistic while in the case of the chief minister it is Machiavellian at its worst for it is the sure subterfuge of the Hindutva to outweigh and crowd out all the legitimate concerns of security of the minorities. To sample just one, Advani in Parliament on November 23, 2002: “An impression was being created the world over that Muslims were not safe as long as there were Hindus in Gujarat.” Advani and his protégé Modi were the most violent catalyst agents of the clash within, which in the words of Nussbaum is: “between people who are prepared to live with others who are different, on terms of equal respect, and those who seek the protection of homogeneity, achieved through the domination of a single religious and ethnic tradition. My argument, then, is focused on India, but it is also pertinent to other countries: for, as Nehru said on the eve of India’s independence, “all the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart.” Perhaps, in the end, my argument is above all for my own nation, which more than any other has imagined that it can live apart, so that it will not merely see India’s complexities, but also attend to its own, in what Nehru described as “this one world that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.”
If foreigners take this lesson from the genocide in Gujarat 2002, why are the bulk of Indians still sleeping over what happened then and how Modi is defiantly and leisurely still covering it up till full ten years later?

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Gujarat used as Hidutva laboratory. Asian age, March 25, 2003.
Opposition is keeping the fire burning in Gujarat. The Times of India, March 25, 2002.
Rights group blame Modi for inaction. Asian Age, March 26, 2002.
Dead Man Talking . Tehelka Magazine, Vol 8, Issue 48, Dated 03 Dec 2011
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Martha C Nussbaum. The Clash Within: democracy, religious violence, and India’s future. Harvard University Press, 2007.














Index


Abdul Kalam 4
Abu Salem 147,
Abhinav Bharat 148, 171,
Achilles heels 76,
Act Now for Harmony and Democracy (Anhad) 89, 140,
Adani 132, 133,
Advani, LK 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 53, 64, 74, 92, 96, 105, 119, 120, 124, 148.162,163, 165, 178
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 64
Aftab Alam 61
Agja, PP 11
Agnivesh, Swami 110,114, 161,
Ahle Hadish 171,
Ahmadabad 6, 23, 35, 51, 63, 69, 77, 81, 89,123, 124, 138,
Ahmadinejad 93
Ajit Kalia 58
Ajodhya 6, 11, 106, 128,
Ajmer 51,
Akbar, MJ 142,
Akbarmiyan 44
Akeela 56
Aksherdham temple 12, 177
Ambani 19, 110, 111,
Amin, Narendra 136, 137, 169, 174,
Amjadali aka Rajkumar Amjadali Rana 143, 168, 170, 143,
Amnesty International 15, 104,
Amritsar 4
Anand 23
Andhra Pradesh 77, 177
Anna Hazare 19, 90
Antani, Manoj 17, 72, 73, 74, 123,
Anwarmiyan Akbarmiyan Malek 43
Apoorvanand 102
Architect of genocide 10, 13,
Armendian genocide 162,
Arvind Rambhai 41
Armenia 91
Aseemanand, Swami 51, 103, 148,
Asghar Ali 76, 78,109,
Assange, Louis 122,
Asthana, Rajesh 115,
Atif 172,
Atrocities Prevention Board 91, 162, 168,
Augean stables 68, 71
Aunt Polly 64
Austen, Jane 5

Avigdore Lieberman 147, 148,
Azad,Maulana 161
Babaliya 23
Babri mosque 6, 12, 77, 120, 123, 127,
Babu Bajrangi 9, 13, 17, 21, 29, 35, 38, 55, 80, 81, 84, 98, 106,139, 164
Bajrang Dal 7, 21, 29,39, 48,52, 66,117, 127, 132, 162, 171, 176
Banerjee, UC 126, 164,
Bapunager 124,
Barot, PN 176
Barot, Tarun 145,
Bhar ki Undai 73,
Banaskantha 69,
Barack Obama, President 42, 91, 93, 168,
Baranpura 48, 53,
Bhagalpur 52, 164,165,
Bhagwat, Mohan 18
Bhagwatipura 63
Bhandar, Governor Sunderlal 176
Bharatbhai Riteshwar 148,
Bharwad, 99,
Bhatiya, Bharat Sunderlal 73
Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) 18-19, 21, 25, 26, 36, 37, 44, 66, 76, 89, 91, 98, 113, 127, 142, 149, 162, 165,
Bharuch 17, 72, 73, 74,
Bhatt, Ashok 35, 50, 60, 61, 162,
Bhatt, Bharat 9, 50, 54,
Bhatt, Dhimant 10
Bhatt, Haresh 9, 15, 31, 50,
Bhatt, Kiriti 174
Bhatt, Mahes 8,101,
Bhatt, Neelesh 78
Bhatt, Sanjiv 7, 8, 17, 20, 21, 62, 66, 85, 97- 101, 109-111, 121,122, 129, 131,136, 139-141, 172,
Bhatt, Schweta 172,
Bhavani Singh Charra (Rathod) 55
Bhavnager 66, 139, 145,
Bhugbal, Chhagan 171,
Bhupender 58
Bhushan, Prashat 19, 49
Bhutto, Benazir 76
Bhuwa, KR 43,
Billy Budd 152,
Bipin Sindhi 54
Bombay Hotel 89
Bondia, PB 61
Borivli Park 144,
Bosnia 30
Brahmabhatt, Neelesh 111, 129
Calley, William 32
Captain Claggart 152,
Chamanpura 124,
Cambodia 65, 91,
Chakravarthy, K 61, 78, 98,
Chakervorty, Shubadhradeep 143,
Chatterji, Tarun 61
Chaudasma, Abhay 70, 77, 134,
Chharas 13
Chhatrala 132, 133,
Chawl, Madan 10
Chidambrum, P 66
Chotubhai Ramanbhai 40
Citizens for Peace and Justice 72, 78, 158,
Coalition Against Genocide 111
Communal and Targetted Violence Bill 18,
Concerned Citizens Tribunal 162,
Conspiracy 9, 10, 16, 23, 34, 39, 44, 48, 49,51, 52,60, 63, 112,
Constitution 24, 152, 163,
Crimes against humanity 28, 31, 42,
Dada Bhuse 116, 117,
Darfur 91
Dahiya, Dr MS 11
Dahod 112
Dalits 163,
Dandiya Bazaar 73
Daniel, Sylvester 134, 135,
Dariabad 112,
Dave, Ramesh 138,
Dawood 145,
Delhi 19,20,
Desai, Salil 90
Desai, Stavan 36
Desai, Viral 74
Deshmukh, Vilasrao 117,
Deshpande Nirmala 161,
Dewas 127
Dharmendra 58
Dhora PS 44
Dhulia 117,
Diaspora 42
Dinesh, MN 68, 69,
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 118,
Durga Vahini 48
Erda, AG 9, 10, 100,
Eshwar Bhavan, Ahmadabad 110,
Essar 133,
European Court of Human Rights 32
Fake encounter 7, 28,
Faizabad 112
Farsi, Dr Salman 171,
Farook Harere 76
Fernandes, George, 97, 174
Ford Motors 153, 154,
Forensic Science Laboratory’s Spot Investigation Report No2 114
Freudian 152,
Gadafi 91
Gadkari, Nitin 64,
Gadvi, Deputy Commissioner of police 138
Gaikwad Haveli 7, 110, 172
Gandhi, Bhupendra Manilal 74
Gandhi, Rajiv 35
Gandhi, Sonia 30, 31, 119,
Ganesh immersion 147,
Ganesh Panwala Odhi 41
Geeta 30
Geneva 62
Genocide 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18-23, 27-31, 34,35,42,44, 47, 48,anti Mussalmaan genocide 48,49,52,60-62, 64, 65, 66, 68, 69,76, 85, 91-93, 96, 97, 101, 103, 105, 107, 111, 112, 118,121, 126, 127,138, 139, 142, 148, 150, 151, 160-162, 164, 176, 177, 178
German 37, 90
Gestapo 89
Ghamari, Prof Chandra Mohan 38
Ghansi 65
Girish 80
Goa 127,
Godhra 11, 15, 23, 47, 50, 51, 65,106, 112-114, 115,126, 138, 177
Goliath 111,
Golwalker, MS 126,
Gondia, BP 130,
Goran Hadzic 92
Gordon’s knot 76
Gotri 58
Guddi Munni Sikandermiay 44
Gulberg Society 9, 10, 48, 63, 64, 65, 66, 73, 80, 98, 99, 100, 107, 131, 176,
Gupta, Vishnu 19
Guinness book 66.
Gujral, Inder 115,
Haji Khana Bazaar 74
Harsh Mander 96
Headley, David 143, 167, 168,
Hercules 70
Hersh Mander 115,
Hindutva, aggressive mood 6, definition 8,10, ethnic cleansing 10; ideology 12, 20, basic tenet 25, floodgate of Hindutva 37; 44,47, 48,49, 52, 60,66,77, 95, 103, 104, 106, 110, 117, 127,128, 130,147-150, 161, 162, 163, 171, 174, 177, 178
Hindu Raksha Samiti 117
Hitler, Adolf 89
Hodli 174
Holocaust 27, 88, 90, 93,
Hosbet Suresh 80
Human Rights Watch 36, 54, 72,
Huntington, Samuel, 6
Hussein 85
Huzefi Ahmadi 144,
Hyderali 85
Hyderabad 51, 77, 78,
Immanuel, Father Dominique 161,
Indian Diaspora 162,
Indresh Kumar 103, 122,
Intelligence Bureau 34
International Criminal Court 27
International Initiative for Justice 47, 105,
Inter Services Intelligence 47
Iranian Tolia 154
Ishrat Jahan 18, 65, 142, 143, 167, 168, 171, 172, 177
Israelis 93, 148, 149,
Jaanta Raja 117,
Jadeja, IK 35, 50, 60, 61,
Jafri, Ahsan 9, 60, 63, 97, 98, 107, 152, 176
Jafri, Zakia 43, 49, 66, 72, 85, 96, 98, 120,
Jagruti 76, 122,
Jain, Mangilal 10
Jaise-e-Mohammad 63,
Jaiswal, Suboth Kumar 171, 172,
Jaitley, Arun 21, 64, 66, 69,
Jamat-e-Islami 161,
Jamiatul Ulemae Hind 139, 161,
Jamal Mehtar 65, 143,
Jammu and Kashmir 177
Jammu temple 12,
Jamnager 152,
Jan Sangharsh Morcha 112, 140,
Jethmalani, Ram, 61
Jinnah, Mohammad Ali 16, 53
Jirawala 107,
Johar, Zeeshan aka Abdul Ganny 143, 168, 170, 173,
Johari, Geetha 134, 135, 137, 152,
Johnson, Dr Samuel Johnson 19
Joshi, Sunil 103. 127,
Joshnabed 4, 132,
Juhapura 26, 49, 85, 89,106, 130,
Kalimuddin aka Nayeemuddin 135,136, 137
Kallo Jaswal 58
Kalu Garden 86,
Kalupur 138
Kanpur 127,
Kannabrian, KG 80
Kanchia 58
Kandhamal 103,
Kapil Komireddi 148, 149,
Kapoor, AC 72,
Karachghavan 117
Karishma 158
Karkare, Hemant 21, 36,
Kashmir 6, 112, 149,
Kaul, Ravindra 162,

Kauser Bano 55
Kauser Bi 17, 30, 31, 69, 77, 92, 93, 107,132, 134,142, 143, 171,
Kaushik, K R 122, 173,
Khalil 117,
Khaire, Sanjay 171, 172,
KHAM 163,
Khan, Shabbir 73
Khan, Sharif 55
Kidiad 23
Kodnani, Maya 9, 17, 23,35,54,61,
Kosovo 26, 30
Kuldip Nayyer 90,177
Kumar, Anil 41
Kumar, Niranjan 41
Kumar, Rajender 34, 131, 177
Kumari, Justice Abhilasha 167,
Kutch 90
Ladoo 158
Lady Macbeth 48
Lashka-re-toiba 63
Lucknow 11, 77,
Lunawada 162,
Luxumanand Saraswati 103,
Lyngdoh, James Michael 132
Macbeth 70
Machipith 48, 53,
Madhya Pradesh 26,
Magdumi, Dr Farogh 171,
Maharashtra 127, 128, 177
Mahatma Gandhi 13
Mahboob Senior 85
Mahendra Vakil 56
Malegaon 18, 24, 36, 51, 103, 107, 116, 117,147, 148, 169, 171,172, 173, 174, 177
Malhotra, Ak 98,99,
Mangalore 18
Mangrol 30
Manish Gurkh 58
Manisha 141,
Manshukhbhai Chamunda 56
Mass atrocities 38
Mathur, OP 68
Meghaninager 63, 98,
Mehmud Ahmed 24, 54
Mehsana 23
Mehta, Akshay 81, 93, 164,
Mehta, Sursh 37
Mehta, Tushar 29, 61, 64, 99,
Milosevic, Slobodan 16, 17, 22, 32, 60,
Melville, Herman 152,
Misra, PK 76
Modasa 23, 36, 51,148.
Modi, Anil 155,
Modi, Narendra, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11-23, 25- 28, 30, 31-32, 34-38, 42,43, 47, 48, 51, 53,54, 60,61, 66, 68-70, 72, 76, 77-82, 85, 88, 90-93, 96-99, 103, 109-112, 115, 116, 119, 120-124, 126, 127, 130, 131-133,134-136, 139, 140, 142, 143,147-149, 152, 158-163, 168, 170, 172-178,
Mody, Azhar 96
Mody, Rupa 96. 131,
Mohammad Ghulam Rasool 43, 44
Mohammad Hussein 54
Mohsin 158
Moonje, Dr 126,
Mora 155,
Mount Abu Gujarat guest house 13, 81
Lord Mountbatten 41
Mubarak bhai 57
Mujahid Salim 136, 171,
Mulchandani, Murli 9
Mumbai 14
Munda 133,
Mushawarat chowk 173,
Muslim boycotted 7
Mussalman-less society 6
My Lai, Viet Nam 32
Mysorewalla, KK 20, 35, 36, 55, 72, 81,
Nagorna Karabekh 26
Nagpur 15, 127,
Naik, Daya 93, 144, 145,
Naik, Madhukar 14
Najma 73
Nanavati Commission 70, 123, 139, 146,
Nanded 20, 127,
Nandi, Ashish 152, 154, 163,
Nano 43, 130,
Narayanan,President KR 24, 66, 96,
Nardana 117,
Narmadabai 144,
Naroda Gram 24,
Naroda Patiya 9, 15, 17, 19, 20, 23, 24, 36, 48, 51, 54, 63, 80, 81, 85, 98,100,107, 124, 138,152, 176
Nassbaum, Martha C 178
Nathubhai Sana 40
National Development Council 25
Navratri 41
Nazis 89, 90, 91, 95, 127,
Nehru, Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal 161,178
Newton 24, 178
New York 6, 147,
Niaz Hussein Liaqat Hussein 58
Non Resident Indian (NIR) 42, 163,
Noorpark 58
Noorulhodha 171,
Noorunnisha 56
Nuremberg Principles 62
Ode 23, 39, 41, 42,
Osama bin Laden 88, 147,
Ottoman empire 162,
Pakistan 31, 32, 49, 76, 88-90, 130, 177
Palestinian 88
Panche, Himanshu 127
Pande, PC 20, 29, 35, 47, 50, 61, 63, 68, 69, 80, 97-99, 120, 138,
Pande, PP 81
Pandherwada 48, 56, 155,
Pandian, Rajkumar 68, 69, 137,
Pandiya, Arvind 9
Pandya, Dr Chanderkant 162,
Pandya, Haren 13, 17 ,69, 70,76, 77, 78, 79, 93, 101, 109, 129, 132,135-137, 152, 153,
Pandya, Dr Yogesh Ramanlal 162,
Pandya, Schweta 96
Panth, KD 99, 109, 129,
Parmar, JG 172,
Parmar, Noel 115,
Paswan, Ram Vilas 18
Patel, Amitabbhai Jashbhai 57
Patel, Anil 9, 31, 155,
Patel, Dr Anil 162,
Patel, Arvind 56
Patel, Ashabhai 41
Patel, Bipinbhai Bhailabhai 57
Patel, Chotu Rambai 41
Patel, Deepabhai 57
Patel, Dhwal Jayant 9, 31
Patel, Dileepbhai 40
Patel, Dr Dwender 156
Patel, Girishbhai Somabhai 40
Patel, Godhabhai 41
Patel, Harishbhai Valabhbhai 39, 40, 41
Patel, Jaideep 9, 17, 35, 51, 54, 60, 80, 131,
Patel, Jaswant 56, 155,
Patel, JusticeJayant 167,
Patel, NC 109,
Patel, Judge PM 8
Patel, Kachra 156
Patel, Keshubhai 17, 37,132,
Patel, Mahendrabhai 57
Patel, Mahesh 156
Patel, Motibhai Gordhanbhai 57
Patel, Nathubhai Sanabhai 40
Patel, Natvarbhai Naranbhai 57
Patel, Prakashbhai Jamnabhai 39, 40
Patel, Ranjitsingh 9,
Patels 155, 156,
Patel, Sardar 16
Patel, Sunil 58
Patel, Vasanthbhai Poonambhai 40
Pathak, Kaku 9
Pathan, Altaf 147,
Pathan, Inspector 10
Pathan, Samir 177
Patil, President Prathiba 64
Patil, RR 171,
Patiya 13, 139,
Patnaik, Prabhat 36
Pearl, Daniel 88, 90, 132,
Pentagon 6, 147,
Peoples’ Union of Democratic Rights (PUDR)165
Pillai, Pranesh aka Javed Ghulam Sheikh 143, 168, 170, 173,
Pogroms 27, 42, real pogroms 49, 6o, 68, 73, 103, 159, 160, 162,
Police University 47
Pol Pot 65
Power, Samantha 42, 91, 92, 154, 178
Pradip aka Padiyo
Pramila 56
Pracharaks 8, 60
Prahlad Raju 10,
Prabhatsinh 162
Prajapati, Tulsiram 18, 63, 69, 77, 92, 93, 109, 132,134-137, 143, 144, 153,
Prasad, RN 164,
Prashad, Vijay 150,
Principles of complementarily 28
Principles of non retroactivity 28
Private army 44
Punjab 41 , 177
Purohit, LtCol Shrikant Prasad 103, 148,
Raghuvanshi, KP 171,
Raghvan, Dr RK 52, 62, 99, 130, 133,
Raghavpura 48, 57,
Raigar, 137,
Rai, Rajnish 68, 69,
Rajasthan 135,
Raj Babbar 123,
Raj, Frank 150,
Rajkot 57
Rajubhai Santabhai 41,
Rajwardhan 171,
Ram 106
Ram, N 64, 99,
Raman, B 171,
Ramchandran,, Raju 84, 129,
Ramdas, Rear admiral 161,
Ram Sena 19
Rana, Deepak Samardas 73,
Rao, Narsimha 14, 15
Raoji Sarabhai 41
Rather, Hemantbhai 40
Ratko Mladic 92

Rashtriya Muslim Manch 122,
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) 7, 10, 12, 15, 21, 29, 34, 37, 38, 52, 54, 58, 60, 61, 64, 74, 76, 105, 113, 117, 118, 126, 126, 132, 149,152, 162, 165, 171, 176
Ravana 106,
Ravi 58
Ravi, Jayanti 10, 130, 126, 162,
Reddy, Yeran 96,
Regimental terrorism 122,
Rehana 44,
Reliance 132,
Ribeiro, Julio 19, 34, 35, 131,
Rice, Dr Condoleezza 6
Robinson, Mary 15, 62, 105,
Roy, Aruna 80,
Rubabuddin 144,
Rudauli 112,
Russell, Bertrand 13
Rwanda 28, 30
Sabarkantha 23, 162,
Sabarmati Express 11, 23, 47, 61, 72, 77, 92, 112,115, 126,
Sabarmati prison 136,
Sachar Commission 25, 95,
Sadhbhavna 159
Sadiq Mahtar 144, 145,
Sahni 126,
Salim 30,
Salunkhe VL 153,
Samant, Justice PB 80
Samjhauta express 51
Samna 48
Sanathan sansthan 127,
Sangli 143,
Sanjay 56
Sardarpura 48, 50, 51-54, 156, 158, 171,
Sarabhai, Malika 51, 93, 96,119, 121, 122, 123, 140,
Sardesai, Rajdeep 104,
Sarfraz Ahmed 117,
Sarkar, Prof Tanika 80
Sarkhej 15
Saroptdar, Madhukar 14, 15
Sarsang chalaks 4,
Satan 178
Satpanthi 122,
Sayed, Ghulam Hussein 40, 43,
Sayid Imam Shahi Sayid 122,
Sayid, Nadeem 85, 86, 93,153,
Sayed, Siranjuddin Jibbo 73
Serbia 92
Setalvad, Teesta 40, 43, 44, 64, 122, 155, 162,
Shabana, Azmi 123, 124,
Shabbir Ahmad 24, 54
Shah, Amit 10, 35, 51, 61, 68, 70, 93, 123, 131, 134-137, 142,143, 144,
Shah, Chetan 9
Shah, Deepak 9
Shah, Prof Ghanshyam 80
Shahid Bakshi 177
Shah, Jagdishbhai 58
Shah, Justice MR 145,
Shah, Sonal 42, 86,
Shakti group 18,
Sharma, Kuldip 140,

Sharma, Pradeep 152,
Sharma, Rahul 20, 21, 61, 139,
Sharma, Rakesh 104,
Shaunbagh, Aruna 5,
Sheikh colony 156
Sheikh, Dilawar 158
Sheikh, Zahira 84
Shiv Sena 19, 21, 117, 165,
Shourie, Arun 25, 95,
Shweta 7
Signal Falia 113,
Sikandermiya Usmanmiya Malek 44,
Singh, Amar 123, 124,
Sindhi, Ashok 86, 153,
Singh, Chitranjan 134,
Singh, Digvijay 18, 132, 149,
Singh, Jaspal 34
Singh, Karnail 167,
Singh, Kalyan 14, 123,
Singh, Dr Manmohan 26
Singh, OP 98, 100,
Singh, Rajnath 113,
Singh, Tajinder 18, 19,
Singhal, GL 169, 173,
Sinha, Mukul 20, 153,
Sita 106,
Smita Narula 80
Society 22, 120,
Soering vs UK 32
Sohrabuddin 18, 30, 31,61, 63, 65, 68, 69,70, 77, 92, 93, 107, 109, 123, 131, 132,134,136, 137, 142, 144,152, 171,177
Solanki, Narendrabhai 58
Solankhi, VL 69, 137,
Soli Sorabji 15, 62, 105,
Sophia 113, 115,
South Asia Human Right Committee 177
Special Investigation Team (SIT) 29
Sreekumar RB 21, 34, 52, 76, 78, 96, 101,118, 119, 122, 123, 126,
Srivastava, Madhu 84
Subramanium,KS 80
Sudan 91
Sudhir Meldi 58
Subhasshbhai Chota 57
Sufiyan, Mufti 70, 93,
Sunil Bhoeto 58
Sureli 41
Suresh Richar Chhara 13, 15, 139,
Suresh Hospet 78
Swaminathan, Gurumurthy 61, 64, 99,
Swaraj, Sushma 64
Sybil 107,
Syid, IS 100,
Syria 76
Taiba mosque 74
Tamang, SP 169, 173,
Tamil paraplegic 54
Tandon, MK 61, 100, 130,
Tamash 126,
Tariq Praveen 145,
Tarsali 48
Taslima Nasreen 30
Tata 19, 110, 111, 130, 132, 133,
Tehelka 23, 62, 70, 100, 114, 115, 138, 154,
Teli, Bharat 9
Tendulkar, Vijay 97, 159,
Tersali 58
Thackeray, Bal 14, 49, 58, 95, 127, 128,
Thakor, Chandresh 57
Thakor, Satishbhai 57
Thakur, Sadhvi Pragyasingh 18, 21, 103, 148,
Tharoor, Shashi 110,
Tirodkar, Ketan 144
Togadia, Praveen 35, 55, 58, 148, 177
Trevedi, Dilip 9, 50
Trivedi, Justice SY 41,
Tulsi, KTS 143,
Turkey 162,
Tuteja, DD 147,
Twain, Mark 5
UK 32,
UP 177
Ur-Fascism 140,
US 4, 6, 32, 42, 88, 90, 91, 92, 120, 178
UNO 162,
Vadalia, PSI 57
Vadodra 23, 138,
Vaghela, Shankersinh 37,
Vakil, Mahindra 155,
Vakil, SB 139, 140,
Vaid, Atul 9
Vajpayee, AB 4, 14, 15, 18, 24, 62, 66, 74, 77, 92, 96, 97, 104, 105, 112, 115, 138, 148, 150, 161,163, 168, 174, 176,
Valson Thampu 161,
Vanzara, DG 10, 65, 68, 69, 77, 107, 122, 135, 137, 143, 145, 169, 173,
Vastra 89
Verma, Justice 15, 62, 105,
Verma, Inder 19, 21
Verma, Satish 20, 21, 167,
Vishwa Hindu Prashid (VHP) 7, 21, 29, 37, 38, 39,42, 50, 51, 52,54, 55, 56, 66, 74, 86, 98, 117, 127, 131, 150, 162, 165, 171, 175, 177
Vohra, Rehana Yusufbhai 40
Vyas, Rajendra 9
We Have No Orders to Save You 36,
Yadav, Ashok Kumar 134,
Yadav, Lalu Prasad 12
Yadav, Mulayam Singh 12
Yadav, Tarachand 100,
Yasin Anmerwala 122,
Yasinbhai 56,
Yechuri, Sitaram 123,
Yogi Adinath 148,
Yugoslavia 20, 28, 32
Zadaphia, Gordhan 20, 35, 76, 81, 138, 139, 140,
Zamir, Bhavang 43





Personae
Advani, LK—hard line Hindutva leader and Home Minister, Dy PM in 200 Agja, PP –railway official
Agnivesh, Swami—a moderate leader of Arya samaj
Ahmadabad—capital of Gujarat
Antani, Manoj—DSP of Bhaurch in 2002 and now home secretary to Mode
Asghar Ali—falsely accused in Pandya murder case
Asseemanand, Swami—an extremist Hindu leader based in Gujarat
Bahar ki Undai—a locality of Bharuch
Bajrang Dal—violent and armed wing of the Hindutva/RSS
Bajrangi, Babu, aka Babubhai Patel, Girish—blood stained Bajrang Dal leader

Banaskantha—Tulsiram killed there
Bharuch—district town
Bhatt, Ashok—health minister
Bhatt,Haresh—extremist Hindu leader and MLA of Godhra
Bhatia, Bharat Sunderlal—a home guard
Bhatt, Neelesh—secretary to Haren Pandya
Bhatt,Sanjiv—deputy commissioner of intelligence in 2002

Chakervarthi,K—DGP in 2002
Citizens for Peace and Justice(CPJ)—an NGO which has done remarkable work in documenting the genocide and fought cases in courts across the country
Desai, Viral—VHP chief of Bharuch
Erda, KG – Dy SP Valsad was arrested in February 2009
Gandhi, Bhupender Manilal—Hindu leader in Haji Khana Bazaar, Bharuch
Gulberg society—a colony of 19 buildings mostly occupied by Muslims
Haji Khana Bazaar—a neighbourhood of Bharuch
Hyderabad—capital of Andhra Pradesh
Ishrat Jahan—killed in fake encounter June 15, 2004
Jagruti—widow of Haren Pandya
Jiboo, Sayyid Sirajuddin—killed by Bhatia
Kannabrian, KG—human rights activist
Kapur. AK—secretary for home in 2006
Khan, Shabber—injured in firing by home guards
Mishra, DR PK—principal secretary to Modi
Naroda Gaon—a neighbourhood near Ahmadabad
Naroda Patiya—a colony of Muslims near Ahmadabad
Pandya, Hare—slain revenue minister
Patel, Dr Jaydeep—VHP joint secretary
Rana, Deepak Ramdas—home guard, killed Najma
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh—Hindu extremist organization (RSS)
Roy, Aruna—a social activist
Sarabhai,Mallika—a socialite and petitioner for justice for Naroda Patia
Sarkar, Prof Tanika—feminist academician and historian at JNU
Sawant, Justice PB—retired judge who investigated the genocide crime
Sayed, Nadeem Ahmed—an important witness in Naroda Patiya massacre
Shah, Prof Ghanshyam—academician at JNU and human rights activist
Sharma, Anju—collector of Bharuch
Sreekuma, RB—DGP Intelligence
Subramanian, KS—a police officer associated with CPJ
Suresh, Justice Hospet—a retired judge of Bombay HC who investigated crimes of genocide
Taiba mosque—in Haji Khana Bazaar
Tamang,SP—metropolica magistrate probed Ishrat Jehan killing and found it fake encounter, he was appointed by chief metropolitan magistrate DM Patel, Jay Narayan Vyas denounced it in court by asking who appointed Tamang
Vaidya, Atul—Hindu extremist accused of genocide
Vajpayee, AB—prime minister of India in 2002
DG Vanzara—a confidant of Modi and a senior cop, now in jail
VHP, Vishwa Hindu Parishad—rabid Hindutva organization involved in genocide and riots
White powder—a substance used by Hindutva groups to burn alive Muslims
Zahira Sheikh—Best Bakery owner’s daughter turned hostil and accepted 18 lakh from accused BJP Madhu Srivastava

November 26, 2011

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