"[from December 7 onwards] “large mobs of Muslims came on the streets and there was recourse taken to violence without doubt.” [in Nirmal Nagar jurisdiction] “a Ganesh idol in the Ganesh Mandir on Anant Kanekar Marg was found decapitated and moved out from its place of installation and eleven temples in different jurisdictions were damaged, demolished or set on fire.”"
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Srikrishna Report quoted in Arvin Bahl, published in Gujarat after Godhra: real violence, selective outrage by Ramesh N. Rao, Koenraad Elst, 2003, Har Anand Publications. Republished in Politics By Other Means: An Analysis of Human Rights Watch Reports on India, 12 January 2004, '
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