New Delhi, July 31
The BJP today reacted sharply against the petition moved in the Supreme Court by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) for a fresh trial outside Gujarat in the controversial Best Bakery case and four other “serious” cases relating to Godhra. It said it would open a pandora’s box.

“It is an unprecedented step by the NHRC as it could lead to many more such demands and fresh inquiries by outside agencies in other riot cases,” BJP President Venkaiah Naidu told newspersons here.

BJP spokesperson Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said, “The situation in the state is now normal and nothing should be done which would disrupt it and this kind of move (by NHRC) would only vitiate the atmosphere.”

He said while the BJP was “for justice to all those who have suffered due to the riots and punishing the guilty but not for politicising these issues.”