Truth always comes out: PM on ‘Sabarmati Report’
As “The Sabarmati Report”, a Vikram Massey starrer on the events behind the 2002 Godhra train burning incident, hit the theatres on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in rare public comments about the issue, said “truth always comes out.”
“It is good that this truth is coming out, and that too in a way common people can see it. A fake narrative can persist only for a limited period of time. Eventually, the facts will always come out!” Modi said on X as the film, produced by Ekta Kapoor, opened in India. The film, directed by Dheeraj Sarna, is based on the Sabarmati Express train burning incident on the morning of February 27, 2002 near Godhra railway station in Gujarat.
As the train departed from Godhra, fire in four coaches of Sabarmati Express killed 59 people, including 27 women and 10 children, returning from Ayodhya.
The incident led to riots in Gujarat under then chief minister Narendra Modi, who faced criminal charges in the matter. The case went through various layers of the criminal justice system.
In June 2022, the Supreme Court upheld the Special Investigation Team’s (SIT) clean chit to Modi and 63 others in the 2002 riots case and dismissed a plea by slain Congress leader Ehsan Jafri’s wife Zakia Jafri in the matter. Zakia had challenged the SIT clean chit to Modi and others.
