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India-Pakistan
India nabs "Mister Big" in Gujarat violence
2002-03-03
  • The prime suspect in the Godhra train violence case, Mohammad Hussain Kolota, local Congress Party leader and President of Godhra Municipality, was on Sunday arrested bringing the total number of arrests in connection with the attack to 27. Kolota, 45, had been evading arrest since the attack on the Sabarmati Express last Wednesday killing 58 people. Police have already arrested two municipal councillors and were looking for another two. Earlier, police had arrested 22, including two councillors.
    Good move - and good cop work. Now they should be searching out somewhere around 450 Hindu murderers.
    Where did you get that Kolota was a Congress Party member? The article didn't mention it, but when the rest of the mess seems to be motivated by extremist Hindus and Moslems, tarring the "centrist" Congress with the same brush would be a smooth political move by Advani.
    Posted by Tom Roberts 3/4/2002 9:31:26 AM
    Well, that's interesting. Apparently the original article has been edited since I scanned it to drop the Congress reference. Don't know if it was dropped because it was inaccurate or for political reasons. The original read (from my saved copy):

    "The prime suspect in the Godhra train violence case, Mohammad Hussain Kolota, local Congress leader and President of Godhra Municipality, was on Sunday arrested bringing the total number of arrests in connection with the attack to 27."
    Posted by Fred 3/4/2002 9:55:07 AM
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