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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Nanavati panel submits first part of report to Modi </b>
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RK Misra | Gandhinagar
The Nanavati judicial commission on Thursday submitted the first part of its report on 2002 Godhra train carnage to Chief Minister Narendra Modi in Gandhinagar. 

The report was presented to the Chief Minister by Justice GT Nanavati and Justice Akshay Mehta in the presence of Minister of State for Home Amit Shah.

Though the contents of the report are confidential, the first part of the report deals with the Godhra train carnage that left 59 people dead.

In the aftermath of the carnage and violence, the State Government had appointed a judicial commission headed by a retired judge, Justice KG Shah, to probe the incident in March 2002. Subsequently on May 21, 2002, the ambit of the probe was enlarged to cover the entire affair and Justice GT Nanavati, retired judge of the Supreme Court, was also appointed. However, following the death of Justice Shah, Justice Akshay Kumar Mehta, also a retired judge of the HC, had replaced him on the probe on April 6, 2008. During the six-year-long-probe, the commission examined over 40,000 applications and over 1,000 witnesses, besides hearing representatives of political parties, religious organisations as well as NGOs through their lawyers.

<b>Speculation is rife that the report may figure in the three-day monsoon session of the State Assembly which begins here on September 25.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->