State govt failed to protect people: US

India's civil society continues to express concern over the Gujarat government's failure to protect people or arrest those responsible for communal violence in 2002, a US report on human rights has said.
The report, titled 'Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2012' released by the US state department, as mandated by the Congress, says human rights groups continue to allege that investigative bodies in their reports showed bias in favour of Gujarat's chief minister Narendra Modi.
"Civil society activists continued to express concern about the Gujarat government's failure to protect the population or arrest those responsible for communal violence in 2002 that resulted in the killing of more than 1,200 persons, the majority of whom were Muslim, although there was progress in several court cases," said the report, which was released by US secretary of state John Kerry on Friday.
"Human rights groups continue to allege that investigative bodies showed bias in favour of Modi in their reports," the US report said.