Ahmedabad: Justice (Retd) G T Nanavati, former Supreme Court Judge who investigated Riot 2002 and 1984, died at Ahmedabad on Saturday.
He is 86 years old.
Relatives of Judge Nanavati said that he died of a heart failure in the afternoon.
He survived two sons, Dhaval and Maulik, both lawyers in the Gujarat High Court.
Nanavati was born in 1935 and registered as an advocate in the Bombay High Court in February 1958.
He increased as Judge of the Gujarat High Court in 1979.
In 1993, he was transferred to the Orissa High Court, where he served as Its.
Head of Justice too.
A year later, he was transferred to the Karnataka High Court as chairman of justice.
In 1995, he was promoted to the Supreme Court.
He retired in 2000.
Immediately after his retirement, the Government of NDA at the Duty Center in charge of Nanavati’s justice by investigating the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, almost 16 years after the eruption of violence.
He submitted his report in two volumes in 2005 and at that time the UPA government led by the powerful Congress.
After submitting the report, Jagdish Tytler dropped from the position of the Union Minister.
In March 2002, the Government of Narendra Modi in Gujarat appointed Justice Nanavati as chairman of the commission investigating the burning of the S-6 coach Sabarmati Express.
Before Judge Nanavati joined the commission, it only had one member: justice (retd).
Shah.
In a fire, 59 Kar Sevaks had been expected near the Godhra train station on February 27, 2002.
With his appointment as Chairman of the Commission, the Government Gujarat expanded the scope of investigation into post-Godhra riots.
Judge Shah died some time later and justice (retd) Akshay Mehta became a member of the commission.
The Nanavati-Mehta Commission submitted a final report on the riots in 2014 to the Minister of Gujarat’s head at the time, Patel Anandiben.
The commission’s observation is that post-godhra riots are a reaction to the burning of the coach.