New Delhi: Expressing suspicion at the timing of the release of the Nanavati Commission report, the CPI(M) today asked the authorities to keep the "piecemeal" aside for the time being, claiming it reinforces communal prejudices and wait for the directions of the Supreme Court.

The party also alleged that the report was trying to "justify" the action-reaction theory propagated by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and the Sangh Parivar and that it was based "solely" on the investigating officer's report which was rejected by the apex court.

In a statement, party Politburo said that the report comes at a time when the country as a whole was bracing to meet the challenges posed by a series of terrorist attacks.

"It (report) tends to reinforce communal stereotypes and prejudices rather than strengthening the need to pursue unbiasedly and impartially the anti-national criminals who are perpetrating such terrorist attacks.

We are of the opinion that these findings must be kept aside and the country must await the directions of the apex court and the contingent investigations ordered," it said.

Noting that the report has come after an "abnormally long delay and that too in a piecemeal fashion raising many needless suspicions", the CPI(M) said the timing of the release of the first part of the report comes on the eve of elections to some state assemblies and the second part is slated to be released on the eve of the coming general elections.

The Nanavati Commission which probed the fire in the Sabarmati Express coach in Godhra has said it was a "pre- planned conspiracy" and not an accident and gave a clean chit to Modi, his ministers and police in the post-Godhra riots that claimed over 1,000 lives in 2002.
Source : PTI