Jason, Refer my last posting on the subject. Please refer to the latest issue of Tehelka where this report was reproduced. More is available on its website.
Regards, Marshall THE GUJARAT FORENSIC Laboratory report was filed on May 17, 2002. It concluded several things: • THERE WERE ENOUGH high impact marks on the side of the train to uphold eyewitness and survivors’ accounts of intense stone pelting. • CONTRARY TO THE theories floating around till then, coach S-6 could not have been burnt by inflammable liquid thrown through the window or the door. • THERE WAS NO sign of any corrosive fluid, like acid, in the fire (contrary to what several karsevaks had claimed). • SEVERAL SAMPLES WERE collected from both outside and inside the coach on February 27 and 28, 2002, respectively. DB Talati, Assistant Director, FSL, reported traces of petro-hydrocarbons in 25 of these samples, while 20 samples had no such trace. • SIGNIFICANTLY, IN HIS report dated April 26, 2002, Talati stated that he could not say whether the petrol traces in the 25 samples matched the petrol sample from Kalabhai’s petrol pump (from where the conspirators allegedly bought their petrol). Further, a huge sample —370 kgs — taken from S-6 on May 1, 2002, yielded no trace of petrol. • HAVING DEMOLISHED EXISTING theories on the cause of fire, the forensic team curiously deci ded to conduct an experiment through which they claimed to prove that the fire had been set off by a huge quantity of inflammable liquid poured along the floor of coach S-6. This conclusion set the police and party machinery off in a new direction. -- My life has changed. What about yours? Log on to the new Indiatimes Mail and Live out of the Inbox!
