– 58 karsevaks died and over 40 were injured on 27 February 2002 in Sabarmati express train coach S-6 carnage. Later riots had broke out in the State. This was not a pre-planned conspiracy.

– The Commission received 44,445 affidavits, of which 18,000 were for claims of relief and rehabilitation while 488 were received from the government officials, employees and police department. The commission had taken statements.

– The report has been made in 9 parts in length of more than 2500 pages.

– Part one of report was presented in year 2008 in which the commission had mentioned that the incident was pre-planned. Later the opposition and some NGOs had made allegation in attempt to tarnish the image of the government. Then Chief Minister Narendra Modi had decided to form a commission for probe of the incident.

– The commission of justice GT Nanavati and Justice Akshay H Mehta has now given clean chit and made it clear that it was not a conspiracy.

– No involvement of political leaders and police officials has been found in probe. Then Chief Minister and present Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s involvement has not been found. The commission took statement of Shri Narendra Modi before coming to conclusion.

– The commission has concluded that three police officials played negative roles. They are then IPS officer RB Shrikumar, Rahul Shamar and Sanjiv Bhatt.

– The commission has also given clean chit to former MoS Home Haren Pandya and former minister Bharat Barot.

– The commission has concluded that former Congress MP Ehsan Jahfi and the residents of his society were given protection by Gujarat police and the government and no action of the government was prejudiced.

– The commission had two issued in hand to probe. One was the incident of burning of coach S6 at Godhra while the other was the role played by then Chief Minister, the member of ministry, police officers, organizations and others in Godhra and post Godhra incidents. The role played in protection of riot-affected people, relief and assistance and implementation of human right commission directives were also part of the probe.

– Allegations were made against late Haren Pandya that he provoked a mob to attack the houses of Muslims. The allegation was made two months after FIR/statement was given. As the allegation had no authentic details, the commission has not accepted it.

– The commission has not found it proper to conclude anything against Vishwa Hindu Parishad and BJP leaders in Naroda Patiya incident as trial court has given its verdict and the High Court has give verdict for legal proceeding against the culprits. The accused have gone for appeal in the Supreme Court in this case. Naroda village case is also under scrutiny of courts and therefore the commission has not found it proper to give opinion on involvement of those who face allegations.

– One of allegations made by NGO and Congress party was that then Chief Minister on 27 February 2002 left Gandhinagar mysteriously for Godhra. However the commission has found this allegation baseless. Chief Minister doesn’t need to inform all senior officers about his planned visit. In this case, the officials attached to arrangement of the visit were in know of CM’s visit and it was not a secret matter.

– Another allegation was against then health minister Ashok Bhatt that postmortem of 58 persons killed in Godhra incident was done against the law by inexperienced doctor by order of Ashok Bhatt in consultation with then CM’s office. However the probe has concluded that the decision was taken by a local officer and not Ashok Bhatt and postmortem was done by qualified doctors. The allegations have been found baseless.

– An allegation that then CM’s entry to S-6 coach was unauthorized and it was intended to destroy the evidences has found wrong by the commission. The commission has concluded that the motive of visit to coach was different and not about destroying evidences.

– One serious allegation was made against then CM that on 27 February 2002 evening, a meeting of administration and police was held at Chief Minister’s residence and they were directed not to take action against majority community when they react against minority community people. Such allegation was made by RB Shrikumar and Sanjiv Bhatt. However Bhatt has not been able to prove his presence in this meeting at CM residence. Bhatt has made bogus allegations against the CM and the government for his personal issues. A fax date 27 February that Sanjiv Bhatt produced before the commission was found to be a fake one.

– The commission has concluded that bandh call on 28 February was not supported by the state government, then Chief Minister or ministers. Government buses were in operation on 28 February and they were attacked by mobs gathered on the roads. It indicates that the government had not extended support to bandh. The steps taken by the government make it clear that the allegations were far from truth.