PTI - Friday, 6 pm IST
New Delhi, Mar 3: A Railway ministry-appointed committee, which went into finding out the causes of fire in the Sabarmati Express in Godhra, has held that fire in S-6 coach was accidental.
Justice U C Banerjee, who conducted the probe, in his final report submitted to Railway Board Chairman J C Batra, said that the cause of the fire in the S-6 coach on February 22, 2002, carrying kar sevaks, was accidental and not deliberate.
Justice Banerjee had already submitted an interim report in January 2005 expressing a similar view.