Gulberg Society massacre: Dy mayor accused of inciting mob

An Eyewitness in the Gulberg Society massacre case has named the former Deputy Mayor of Ahmedabad, Jagrup Singh Rajput, for inciting the mob to attack the locality.

Thirty-eight people including former Congress leader Ehsan Jafri had been killed in the carnage and several properties damaged.

Sairabanu Salimbhai Sandhi told the court that Jafri had called Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Congress leader Amarsinh Chaudhry, Badruddin Sheikh and even L K Advani for help.

But she was not aware of the response to the phone calls made by Jafri, she said.

Four members of Sandhi’s family were killed in the massacre that day. They included her son Sandhi Mohammed Husain, a student of second-year LLB, brother-in-law Jahangir, and two sisters-in-law, Zarina and Mumtaz.

She said Rajput was standing on the office terrace of one Meghsinh Chaudhary and inciting the mob to attack Gulberg Society.

The massacre took place on February 28, 2002 during a bandh called by the VHP, and supported by the RSS and the BJP, to protest against the burning of the S-6 coach of the Sabaramti Express at Godhra the previous day. Fifty-nine people, mostly kar sevaks returning from Ayodhya, were killed in it.



Nirav Bhagat