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The Anatomy Of Manufactured Lies

What really happened at Godhra can only be known by sifting fact from fiction. TEHELKA exposes the police’s case in Godhra



THE STORY AT A GLANCE

For five years, Chief Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP government in Gujarat have evoked the Sabarmati Express tragedy at Godhra as a justification for the cataclysmic pogrom of Muslims that followed. They claim the arson was not just the horrible result of mob fury spinning out of control, but a premeditated communal conspiracy. TEHELKA’s painstaking six-month long investigation exposed a disturbing trail of lies and subversion through force and bribery. This, in brief, is the story of its findings.



THE POLICE VERSION

The broadstrokes of the police’s claims are as follows:



 Several religious and political Muslim leaders of Godhra — Maulvi Umarji; two Muslim corporators, Bilal Haji and Farooq Bhana; a guesthouse owner, Rajjak Kurkur; and a hawker, Salim Paanwala conspired to burn coach S-6 (not just any coach but, for some unexplained reason, coach S-6 in particular) of the Sabarmati Express on February 27, 2002.



 Mohammad Hussain Kalota Shaikh, then president of the Godhra Municipal Council, and two Muslim corporators, Salim Shaikh and Abdur Rahman Dhantiya were among the mob, inciting people to burn the train. However, the police do not claim to know if these men were also involved in the conspiracy.



 The police claim coach S-6 was set on fire after a large quantity of petrol was poured on its floor. They say 140 litres of this petrol was bought on February 26, 2002 from Kalabhai’s petrol pump, owned by a Muslim. The petrol was carried the next morning by nine Muslim hawkers, and inexplicably, one reluctant Hindu hawker, to Cabin A, where the Sabarmati Express had stalled.



 The Sabarmati Express halted at Cabin A, not because of chainpulling by karsevaks but by three Muslim hawkers who scaled three different coaches of the moving train and turned the discs. (It is important the police prove this or their conspiracy theory falls flat. After all, had the train not halted outside Cabin A, how could the hawkers have set fire to S-6?)



 The police claim that some hawkers cut the 6-inch thick vestibule connecting coaches S-6 and S-7 with ordinary scissors and entered S-6. They then poured petrol on the floor of the coach. Some petrol was also thrown inside through a broken window.



POLICE EVIDENCE TO BACK THEIR THEORY



 The police’s case rests chiefly on statements by nine BJP party members who claim to be eyewitnesses. Between them they have identified and accused 41 Godhra Muslims. (Dileep Dasadiya, one the nine BJP men, has since completely retracted his statement.)



 The case also rests on statements by karsevaks travelling in S-6 and other coaches. Their claim: the mob was throwing petrol and kerosene, acid bulbs, petrol bulbs and mashaals through broken windows and sprinkling inflammable liquid on the coach.



 Three karsevaks first clai med they’d fainted due to the smoke and not seen anything. Two months later, they changed their stand and said they’d seen some liquid being poured on the floor of the coach. These new statements were recorded on May 7, 2002 — 15 days before the first charge sheet — and became the main thrust of the police case.



 Though it discounted that S-6 was set on fire by inflammable liquid thrown through the window or sprinkled on the exterior of the coach, the forensic report claimed “60 litres of petrol may have been thrown along the floor of the coach from the southern direction...” This became the accepted theory.



 A month and a half after the first chargesheet, the police produced a “know-all witness” — Ajay Baria, a Hindu tea vendor, who inexplicably claimed he’d been forcibly taken along by nine Muslim hawkers to load petrol and set S-6 on fire. Baria, the cornerstone of their case, now lives under close police vigil.



 Two weeks after arresting them, the police produced two Muslim hawkers — Illias Hussain and Anwar Kalandar — who said they had scaled the train and turned the discs to stop it. Both have since retracted through affidavits in the Supreme Court.



 A Muslim hawker, Jabir Binyamin Bahera, confessed he was part of the group of hawkers that had cut the vestibule and poured the petrol along the floor of the coach. He said two Muslim corporators — Bilal Haji and Farooq Bhana — had told him coach S-6 had to be burnt as Maulvi Umarji had instructed. Bahera has since retracted his statement through an affidavit in court.



 A year after the incident, the police produced two Hindu salesmen — Prabhatsingh Patel and Ranjitsingh Patel — employed by Kalabhai petrol pump, who claimed they’d sold 140 litres of petrol to the accused on the evening of February 26, 2002. Significantly, the two had first said they’d not sold any loose petrol to anybody on that day or the evening before. They now have 24 hour police protection.



 Sikandar Siddik is another police witness. He clai med he saw Muslim hawkers setting S-6 on fire and that Maulvi Umarji told him he was paying Rs 1,500 to the accused. He also said he’d seen corporators — Bilal Haji and Farooq Bhana — near the coach. Additionally, he said he saw Maulvi Yakub Punjabi inciting the mob. (The police detained Punjabi, but had to let him go be c a use Punjabi was not in India but in Saudi Arabia at the time of the incident.)



 The police also used confessions from six other Muslim hawkers who, according to the police, admitted to their role in the burning of coach S-6 at the behest of Maulvi Umarji and the Muslim corporators. All six have since retracted their confessions.



The truth of what really happened in Godhra can only be known by discarding what did not happen. TEHELKA’s investigation uncovered some heinous fictions.



FICTION The two salesmen — Ranjitsingh Patel and Prabhatsingh Patel — who claimed they sold 140 litres of petrol to Muslim hawkers in their statements were actually bribed by the chief investigating officer, Noel Parmar, to say this and falsely identify people. TEHELKA caught Ranjitsingh on camera admitting to this. The amount paid to each was Rs 50,000.



FICTION The nine BJP members who identified 41 Muslims were actually not even present at the station that day. The TEHELKA undercover reporter caught two of them — Kakul Pathak and Murli Mulchandani — on camera, categorically admitting that they were not there that day, and that the police had filed statements in their name without their knowledge and they had colluded to serve Hindutva.

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FICTION Illias Hussain and Anwar Kalandar who were arrested by the police and made to claim that they had turned the discs that stopped the train at Cabin A were actually tortured by Noel Parmar and his team into doing so. Illias told the TEHELKA reporter that while they were in custody, Parmar’s men would put a log on his leg and walk on it. Kalandar said they had put electric current on his genitals. A year after their statements to the police, the two had returned from enforced exile and retracted their statements through an affidavit in court.



FICTION Ajay Baria, the inexplicable Hindu vendor whose statement seemed to stitch the police’s theory neatly into place, is no longer allowed to live in Godhra. He is tailed by two policemen round the clock. TEHELKA could not speak to him directly but spoke to his mother. The mother said Baria had become a police witness out of fear.



FICTION Maulvi Umarji, whose alleged role in the conspiracy, is crucial to uphold the police’s theory was not present at the site during the incident. The allegations against him rest on two statements. Significantly, Jabir Bin Bahera, who first named him, later retracted his statement. Sikandar Siddik, the other witness who named Umarji, proved himself unreliable — he had named Maulvi Yakub Punjabi as well as Umarji. It turned out Punjabi wasn’t even in India on the day of the incident.



FICTION The forensic report had effectively demolished the police and State’s contention that S-6 was burnt by inflammable liquid either thrown in through broken windows or sprinkled outside the coach. The new and current theory that S-6 was burnt because of petrol thrown along its floor is based on the statements of three karsevaks who, just three months earlier, had said they had fainted due to the smoke and thus seen nothing.