CHANDIGARH: The Dal Khalsa termed the report of the Nanavati Commission that gives clean chit to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and the state police in the Gujarat carnage as farce and murder of justice.

In a hard hitting statement party general secretary Dr Manjinder Singh and secretary political affairs Kanwar Pal Singh said the communal violence in 2002 was sponsored by Hindu chauvinist fringe of the Sangh Parivar to avenge the torching of 52 Hindu passengers in Godhra. They said scores of innocent people were selectively targeted, roasted alive because they were followers of Islam. 

Describing the happenings of Gujarat as a 'blot on the image of India', they said it was forgone conclusion that the Hindu terrorists responsible for Gujarat carnage would never be brought to justice in this Hindu-India.   

They rued that the commissions and inquiry panels set up to probe either Delhi or Gujarat pogrom have failed to deliver justice to minorities. They said like Nov 84 Delhi massacre of Sikhs, the perpetrators of Gujarat communal violence too have escaped from the so-called long-arm of the law courtesy the Indian justice system.

"Riding on the wave of Hindu sentiments against Muslims, the state BJP leadership ensured that Hindu gangs had a field day, said they. To drive their point home, they said the chief minister unwarranted justification describing the Gujarat genocide as "mass agitation", reflected the state's connivance in the organized violence against Muslims. 

Even the RSS termed the violence against Muslims as a "natural outbreak" of the Godhra train massacre. How come a Hindu retaliation was justified when in the same country the Sikh militant retaliation to Darbar Sahib attack and Delhi genocide has been branded and projected as acts of "terrorism", they asked. Irrespective of whether the burning of Sabarmati Express coach was "pre-planned conspiracy" as claimed by Nanavati Commission or an accident as probed by former Supreme Court judge U.C. Banerjee, the massacre of Muslims can in no way be justified, they remarked.