Nanavati-Mehta Commission is the commission of inquiry appointed by the government of Gujarat to probe the Godhra train burning incident of 27 February 2002 . Its mandate was later enlarged to include the investigation of the 2002 Gujarat riots . It was appointed on 6 March 2002 , with K. G. Shah , a retired Gujarat High Court judge the only member . It was later re-constituted to include G. T. Nanavati , a retired judge of the Supreme Court of India , after protests from human rights organizations over Shah 's closeness to Narendra Modi . Akshay H. Mehta , retired judge of the Gujarat High Court , replaced Shah when the latter died before the submission of the Commission 's interim report . Justice Mehta was the same judge who had granted bail to Babu Bajrangi , the main accused of the Naroda Patiya massacre
Godhra train burning
Godhra train burning
Nanavati-Mehta Commission