SIT joint director visits camp near Himmatnagar

PALANPUR: The joint director of Special Investigating Team (SIT) Paramveer Singh visited the Satnagar refugee camp, 10 km from Himmatnagar, in Sabarkantha district on Tuesday.
He called on refugees at the camp and asked them about the protection they were getting. He asked administration and police to ensure protection of witnesses who have been rehabilitated at the camp.Sources said Singh, accompanied by local officials and SIT members, stayed for half an hour at the camp.
Twenty Muslim families have been rehabilitated at the camp after the post-Godhra riots. Local police officials said, "Camp residents have been complaining about lack of sanitation and other facilities."
Witnesses of post-Godhra carnage at the camp were served summons and the process lasted till 4.30 pm. Of the 90 people currently living at the camp, 40 are eyewitnesses of two separate violent incidents in which 11 people were burnt alive near Dipda Darwaza in Visnagar and 33 people in Sardarpura in Mehsana.