India’s Modi cleared of complicity in deadly communal riots | Malay Mail

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AHMEDABAD, Dec 11 — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not complicit in deadly religious riots that broke out in 2002 in one of the bloodiest episodes in independent India, according to a judge-led commission report released today. Modi was the chief minister of the western state of Gujarat...

Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat when 1,000 people were killed in riots.— Reuters pic

The riots have long dogged Modi, who was accused by human rights groups of turning a blind eye to the violence. The release of the report came amid protests in northeastern India over a citizenship bill that proposes excluding Muslim refugees from neighbouring Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan. The report—which included 44,445 affidavits from witnesses and 488 government officials—was tabled in the Gujarat state assembly on Wednesday, five years after it was submitted to the government following a 12-year probe.

 

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