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NHRC meeting to discuss Gujarat Govt. stand

NEW DELHI APRIL 21. In the backdrop of the Gujarat Government rejecting its major recommendations, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is meeting this week to discuss the defiant stand of the State Government.

The Commission will meet immediately after the return of the NHRC Chairman, J.S. Verma, from Geneva on April 25 to discuss the response of the Gujarat Government to its preliminary remarks and recommendations on the communal riots in the State, sources said.

Mr. Verma, who was in Geneva for a U.N. Conference, referring to the Gujarat carnage said that the NHRC had directed the Centre and the State Government to take steps to bring to justice those responsible for violations of the rights and to end the sufferings of the victims and the Commission will reflect the same after receiving the responses to its directions.The Gujarat Government, in its 18-page report in response to the remarks and recommendations of the NHRC, had rejected the Commission's demand for a CBI probe into the "critical cases" of communal violence. The NHRC recommended that the Godhra, Chamanpura and Naroda Patiya incidents, the Best Bakery case in Vadodara and Sardarpura case in Mehsana district be entrusted to the CBI. — PTI

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