In a sting operation carried out by Tehelka and a television news channel former Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Babu Bajrangi, currently a member of Shiv Sena, admits that he and his men killed 91 Muslim men and women in Naroda Patiya in the Godhra riots.
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“In my FIR, it is written that I ripped open a pregnant women’s stomach,” he is seen as telling the undercover reporter. “We showed the Muslims what we are capable of.” Bajrangi said the corpses were deliberately burnt because such a practice was 'against the tenets of Islam'. "Muslims are supposed to be buried and not burnt," he said.
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Bajrangi goes on to claim that he phoned the then Home Minister Gordhan Zadaphiya to tell him about the killings and ‘sort out the matter. “He just asked me flee from Gujarat,” Bajrangi tells the reporter.
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The Shiv Sena leader, who shared a dais with Uddhav Thackeray recently, claimed that when Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was told of the massacre at Naroda Patiya he called him up for doing a ‘fantastic job’. “Modi helped me hide in Mount Abu for several days after the riots,” he said.
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