By TwoCircles.net staff reporter
Vadodra: The victim survivors of the Ode village in Anand district of Gujarat has filed a complaint in Umreth court to exhume the bodies of 23 people who lost their lives in the 2002 communal carnage.
The village witnessed the killing of 27 innocent Muslims. Hundreds of Muslims were killed across the state in the pogrom that began, in a planned way, after the burning of 56 people in S-6 coach of the Sabarmati Express at Godhra.
A large mob with arms and ammunitions attacked Muslim families in the village and killed 27 innocent people from 1st to 3rd March 2002. The victims were from Mallick and Vohra family. The survivors filed an FIR in Khambolaj police station but the case was never put on judicial process.
Rioters with the help of police allegedly buried the bodies at three different locations in the village. The families of the victims urged district administration many times to exhume all those bodies of the victims but in vain. The families of the victims want to bury them as per their religious funeral rites.