Ahmedabad: A forensic investigation has found that the inflammable substance that was used to set afire a compartment of the Sabarmati Express was probably thrown from inside the coach and not outside.

The report of the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) said the fire pattern on the (outside) surface of coach S-6 as against its interior, which was almost reduced to cinders, the intensity of the fire and other factors point to the possibility of the inflammable substance having been thrown from inside one end of the compartment before it was set on fire, police sources said.

Though the FSL officials refused to comment on whether it has given any such report, the sources said on July 3 that the two-page report prepared by a senior FSL scientist in Gujarati was attached with the chargesheet filed against the 54 accused in the Railway Court of first-class judicial magistrate in Godhra.

The FSL report was prepared after its scientists undertook a simulated exercise of the incident near the Godhra railway station which left at least 59 train passengers dead in a mob attack on the train coach, triggering off reprisal attacks across parts of Gujarat against the minority community as most of the accused belonged to that section.

PTI