Godhra probe panel illegal: HC

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court on Friday declared "illegal" the setting up of U C Banerjee Committee to probe certain aspects of Godhra train carnage.

Justice B H Vaghela pronounced the order on a petition filed by a survivor of the carnage, Neelkanth Bhatia, who had challenged the setting up of Banerjee Committee at a time when Justice Nanawati Shah Commission was already probing the matter.

The Committee, headed by former Supreme Court judge U C Banerjee, was set up by the Union Cabinet in Septemer 2004.

It was set up to probe the incident in which 58 kar sevaks were killed in a fire in S-6 coach of Sabarmati Express in February 2002.