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By Srijit Das A photograph of a special public prosecutor has surfaced on social media with captions misidentifying him as Rafiq Hussain Bhatuk, one of the accused in the 2002 Godhra train coach fire incident. BOOM found that the person in the photograph is government pleader RC Kodekar, who served as the prosecutor counsel in the 2002 Godhra train burning case and not Bhatuk as claimed in the viral messages. Bhatuk, who remained in hiding for 19 years, was arrested by the Gujarat police in 2021. In 2022, the Godhra Sessions Court handed down a life sentence to him for his involvement in the c…

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