Nanavati finds no govt lapses

Justice G.T. Nanavati, heading the two-member panel to probe last year’s Gujarat riots, today said the evidence recorded so far did not indicate any serious lapse on the part of the police or administration in controlling the communal clashes that followed the Godhra carnage.

The commission, which has completed the task of recording evidence in all the areas except the most-affected Ahmedabad and Vadodara as also Bharuch and Narmada, would begin its last leg of recording evidence from July 15.

About the evidence so far collected on the role of police and district administrations, Justice Nanavati said that ‘‘the evidence recorded so far do not show any serious lapse on the part of police and the civil administration’’. The panel had given time to one and all to file additional affidavits on the alleged incidents that had taken place in their locality.