Reports say that Gujarat Police investigating the case have also said that the lights were switched off before the attack so that the perpetrators could not be identified, thereby indicating that the riots were preplanned.
Around one week after the Godhra massacre of 27 February 2002, there was a malicious email circulated, copied from an Islamic website purporting to be a news portal, making horrible character assassinating and fake charges on the dead kar sewaks of Godhra.
When Suzuki plant was set to come to Hansalpur, farmers had protested against it. However, when PM Modi told them he would take the plant to some other place, some of them requested him not to do so.