Yet through all the horror of Gujarat there were also the voices of sanity and humanity. The delegation was moved by the tremendous work being done by relief workers of all communities. It also met scores of people young and old, men and women who expressed their horror and anger at the communal carnage and against the forces who planned for its occurrence. They all expressed their helplessness. There were huge mobs with the police standing by. How could we have come out against them, they asked. We are against what happened, but what could we have done? Questions that haunt the human conscience. There were cases where neighbours had saved Muslims. In some areas like in Juhapura, some Hindu families have left out of fear but their property is undamaged. The Shah Alam camp organizers are also running a camp in a mandir where a group of Hindu families has come. These are examples that provide some hope. The delegation has made this detailed report available so that a wider section of people become aware of what the implementation of Hindu rashtra costs the nation. ...The delegation visited Godhra town in Panchmahal district on March 11 where it met the district magistrate, railway officials, railway police officials, doctors and nurses at the Civil Hospital. At the Iqbal Primary School that is being run as a relief camp for about 1,800 people, the delegation met the organizers as also the affected. It was the first day that the curfew had been lifted for the full day and was to be imposed at 6 pm. The district magistrate, Jayanthi Ravi, told the delegation that she had got a message from the railway station SS at 8.05 am on February 27 that the Sabarmati Express was being stoned. At 8.10 am she got another message saying that some of the carriages were on fire. Her immediate concern, she said, was to ensure that the police and fire services reached there and that adequate medical arrangements were made. According to her, the police reached there within a few minutes. The police and the railway police force fired to disperse the crowd, and two Muslims were killed. The fire service reached at around 8.30 am. She also asked for additional forces. She refused to comment on any aspect of what was part of the investigations except to state that the mob was of a few hundred people from the area neighbouring the railway tracks and that all those injured had been rushed to the Civil Hospital and later shifted to Ahmedabad. She took the decision to impose curfew at 10 am and it was implemented fully by noon, by which time all the children in schools had been safely sent home. The train left for Ahmedabad at 12.40 pm. The delegation was impressed by the firm actions taken by the DM that probably prevented a much bigger outbreak of violence in a town described as 'communally sensitive'. Later when the delegation visited the relief camp, ...the positive role of the administration in providing relief and medical aid was also mentioned by those affected. The delegation could not get details of the actual damage in Godhra as it was not possible in such a short period to move around the town. The delegation also met senior railway officials including the members of the RPF who were there on Feb 27. Tragically, Puja Deshpande, the wife of the station master, Deepak Deshpande, had boarded the Sabarmati Express on that day to travel to Ahmedabad. She was one of those who had been burnt to death. The delegation tried to meet Deshpande but he was not available. According to the statements of the officials, the train was running late by 4 hours and 40 minutes. They had no information that kar sevaks were on the train. Usually, said an RPF officer, when rallyists travel, there is prior information. Thus, when the rallyists were on their way to Ayodhya, the RPF post had received a message and the particular officer had in fact accompanied them till the next big junction. This, according to him, is essential because rallyists usually pick up fights at the station, not paying for the tea and so on. The RPF official said he was later informed by two licenced tea vendors that some of the kar sevaks refused to pay for their tea and were harassing a Muslim tea vendor on the platform. However he could not tell the delegation their names or where they lived. Thus this report could not be confirmed. When asked about a press report that a girl related to the tea vendor had been picked up, he said that he had no knowledge of such an incident but there may have been a quarrel between the tea vendor and the kar sevaks. According to him the police have not recorded any statements of the vendors yet because of the curfew, but will do so shortly. to be concluded