MINORITIES - 2002 - Indian Social Institute

underscored by the sheer brutality of the attacks that were carried out on the victims. (Hindustan Times
25.5.02)
26 th May
Godhra flares up as Army moves to border (7)
Godhra (Gujarat), Mav 25: Fresh violence erupted in Godhra and Ahmedabad barely 48 hours, after the
Army withdrew from Gujarat. Two people were killed and nine injured in Godhra and a fresh curfew has
been imposed. Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi's special security adviser, Mr K.P.S. Gill, is camping
in Godhra. In Ahmedabad, one person was arrested for 'detonating a crude bomb. Violence rocked
Godhra late on Friday night. Indefinite curfew has been clamped in areas under seven police stations. The
situation remained' tense throughout Saturday. More than 60 persons were arrested. Mr Gill, along with
special inspector general of police Deepak Swaroop, held meetings with top police and district officials.
Minor incidents of violence also spread tension in Gomtipur and Rakhial areas of the old city in
Ahmedabad since Friday night. (Asian Age 26.5.02)
27 th May
Modi keeps tension alive: IB (7)
Ahmedabad, May 26: The Gujarat police has reportedly been ordered to identify elements
responsible for new spurt in violence in which three people were killed and 11 injured over the last two
days. Late on Saturday night, a Muslim-owned house was been torched in Godhra and Hindu man was
stabbed to death in Ahmedabad. The Gujarat government wants to pass on the blame for the recent
communal frenzy on anti-socials who have camped in Gujarat, claim top sources, but senior police
officers stress that Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi is sitting on a communal tinderbox and unless
attempts are made at grassroots levels, the state would witness communal clashes again. (Asian Age
27.5.02)
28th May
Muslims refuse to meet Sangh leaders (7)
Gandhinagar, May 27: 'THE NATIONAL Commission for Minorities (NCM) efforts to broker a peace deal
between Hindus and Muslims in Gujarat have run into rough weather with the minorities' delegation
refusing to hold talks with VHP and Bajrang Dal representatives. A meeting between representatives of
the two communities was scheduled here for Monday An NCM delegation, led by deputy chairman
Tarlochan Singh, was also scheduled to attend the meeting, but following objections by Muslim leaders
the NCM's visit to Gujarat was called off. (Hindustan Times 28.5.02)
27 th May
Gill banks on people power in Godhra (7)
Ahmedabad, May 26: Authorities in Godhra, where the carnage ghost came back to claim two more lives
on Friday night, have decided to set up committees in sensitive localities to ensure that the violence did
not recur. The town has been peaceful with no fresh incident of violence reported since that night.
Indefinite curfew continued to be in force across Godhra for the second day today. But a man was stabbed
to death in Ahmedabad yesterday, taking the toll in the renewed violence in the strife-torn state to three.
Unidentified assailants killed Lalit Kumar Mistry, 39, on Kalupur bridge in the curfew-bound area of the city
and escaped under the cover of darkness. Two persons were killed in police firing and nine injured after
clashes erupted between two communities on Friday, forcing chief minister Narendra Modi's security
adviser K.P.S. Gill to rush for an "on the spot assessment of the situation".It was Gill who suggested to the
local authorities to set up mohalla committees and involve members from both communities in areas with
a mixed population. (Telegraph 27.5.02)
28 th May
More Gujarat arrests, cases unsolved (7)
Ahmedabad, May 27: Three months after gruesome incidents of violence in Naroda Patiya, Naroda
village, Gulbarg society and Sardarpur village in Mehsana, investigating teams of the Gujarat police are
yet to establish anything concrete in these cases. Operation Crackdown which was launched by the
Ahmedabad crime branch to arrest the accused in the infamous Gulbarg Society case in which former