Tuesday, January 18 2005 09:52 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: Rejecting doubts over the timing of release of his probe report into the Godhra train blaze that led to widespread riots in Gujarat, just before the Assembly elections, retired Supreme Court Judge Justice U C Banerjee said that he was "not a politician".

"I am not a politician. I do not know when the elections are due or anything. I am not very keen on knowing neither am I interested," Banerjee told a TV news channel when queried about doubts being raised over the timing of the report.

"But if you say this report has been published at a time near elections, I say this report has been published in accordance with the desire of the cabinet," Banerjee, however, said.

Banerjee headed a high-level committee investigating the causes of the fire in Sabarmati Express that killed 59 Kar Sevaks in February, 2001.