Talking of the state's complicity in the violence, the report, released on Thursday, said: "The post-Godhra
carnage in Gujarat was an organised crime perpetrated by the chief minister and his government."

It also names the state's chief secretary, home secretary and director general of police as "accused"
in the eyes of the victims. The report is expected to be submitted to President A P J Abdul Kalam on Friday.

Titled 'Crime Against Humanity' the report runs into two huge volumes, and is based on as many as 2,094
statements.

The report has not spared anybody. The media, the secular outfits or the Central government. But it
specially mentions Modi in the chapter on 'state complicity'. He is described as "the chief author and architect of
all that happened in Gujarat after February 27". The report has also accused him of refusing relief and
rehabilitation to the victims.

Senior advocate, K G Kannabiran, a member of the tribunal, told reporters: "The report is comprehensive
enough for any Central agency to file charge-sheets against everybody, from Narendra Modi downwards."

There, however, is still an element of mystery about how the Sabarmati Express compartment had caught fire,
the Tribunal admitted. "It is clear that the fire was set from the inside. But who did it is still not
clear," said Justice Suresh.

The report also alleged that cadres of the VHP and the Bajrang Dal were trained to target Muslims "and the
Godhra incident provided an opportunity". "The uniform pattern of violence in Gujarat, the day after the
Godhra incident, showed that the killings were pre-planned," it said.

The report mentions the shifting of the bodies of the Godhra victims to Ahmedabad the same night, Modi's
conclusion the same day that the attack on the train was pre-planned by the ISI and the bandh call given by
the VHP and supported by the BJP the next day as "evidence of a well thought-out scheme to extract
maximum political capital out of Godhra".

Our Comment: Modi stands indicted â?? by the National Human Rights Commission, the Minorities Commission and now the citizens' tribunal. Certainly not a matter of gaurav for the 'chhote sardar.'

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