Modi and Godhra - The Fiction of Fact Finding - Softcover

Mitta, Manoj

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9351365840 ISBN 13: 9789351365846

Verlag: HarperCollins, 2015

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No instance of communal violence has provoked as much controversy as the Gujarat2002 carnage, in which over 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed. And none has been subjected to as much fact-finding. Yet, as this book demonstrates, the fact-finding -- riddled with ambiguities and deceptions, gaps and contradictions -- glossed over crucial pieces of evidence. While the Nanavati Commission shirked from examining Modi, the specialinvestigation team (SIT) left unasked a range of questions on the anti-Muslim violence that followed the burning of a train in Godhra carrying Hindutva activists. How could Modi, for instance, claim to have been unaware, for nearly five hours, of the first post-Godhra massacre that took place at Ahmedabad's Gulberg Society? How does this claim square with his admission that he was tracking the violence as it unfolded? Scrupulously researched and now updated to factor in the national elections of 2014, The Fiction of Fact-finding draws telling parallels between Gujarat 2002 and the 1984 massacre of Sikhs in Delhi to underline an insidious pattern in Indian democracy: the subversion of the criminal justice system under a shroud of legal platitudes.

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Manoj Mitta is a senior editor with The Times of India, writing on legal, human rights and public policy issues. In 2007, he co-authored When a Tree Shook Delhi, a critically acclaimed book on fact-finding done by official agencies in the wake of the 1984 anti-Sikh carnage. A law graduate from Hyderabad, Mitta worked earlier with The Indian Express and India Today. He is a patron of 'Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Judicial Reforms', a civil society watchdog, and is on the advisory board of Amnesty International India and in the governing body of Foundation for Media Professionals. Married with two children, he lives in Noida.

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• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9351365840
• ISBN 13: 9789351365846
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 280
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