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Best Bakery Case: NHRC to submit report in a week
Vadodara, July 08: The National Human Rights Commission team, which is taking another look at the Best Bakery case has finished its work in Vadodara and is expected to submit its report within a week.
Vadodara, July 08: The National Human Rights Commission team, which is taking another look at the Best Bakery case has finished its work in Vadodara and is expected to submit its report within a week.
"We have come here to collect the police and court records related to best bakery case and will submit a report to the commission within a week,” registrar of law Bhari Hoake told newsmen, winding up their one-day visit.
However, he refused to comment on whether NHRC would recommend re-opening of the case, in which 21 accused were acquitted due to lack of evidence and witnesses turning hostile.
Earlier in the day, senior officials of NHRC held a closed door meeting for an hour with city police commissioner Sudhir Sinha.
P G J Nampoothri, special rapporteur for the commission in Gujarat, who is accompanying Bhari Hoake, registrar of law and Sudhir Chaudhary, DIG (Investigations), the NHRC team members from New Delhi, told news agencies that the team had no intention to visit the bakery massacre site located at Hanuman Tekri.
Twelve people were burnt alive in the bakery and two went missing on March 1, 2002 during post-Godhra communal riots.
NHRC members also held a meeting with district and sessions judge J C Upadhyay at the court and examined the 24-page judgement.
The acquittal of the accused has generated a lot of heat with NHRC chairman A S Anand terming it as "miscarriage of justice" even as the key witness Zahira Sheikh, who had turned hostile during the trial, urged for re-opening of the case in a higher court outside Gujarat.
Bureau Report
"We have come here to collect the police and court records related to best bakery case and will submit a report to the commission within a week,” registrar of law Bhari Hoake told newsmen, winding up their one-day visit.
However, he refused to comment on whether NHRC would recommend re-opening of the case, in which 21 accused were acquitted due to lack of evidence and witnesses turning hostile.
Earlier in the day, senior officials of NHRC held a closed door meeting for an hour with city police commissioner Sudhir Sinha.
P G J Nampoothri, special rapporteur for the commission in Gujarat, who is accompanying Bhari Hoake, registrar of law and Sudhir Chaudhary, DIG (Investigations), the NHRC team members from New Delhi, told news agencies that the team had no intention to visit the bakery massacre site located at Hanuman Tekri.
Twelve people were burnt alive in the bakery and two went missing on March 1, 2002 during post-Godhra communal riots.
NHRC members also held a meeting with district and sessions judge J C Upadhyay at the court and examined the 24-page judgement.
The acquittal of the accused has generated a lot of heat with NHRC chairman A S Anand terming it as "miscarriage of justice" even as the key witness Zahira Sheikh, who had turned hostile during the trial, urged for re-opening of the case in a higher court outside Gujarat.
Bureau Report