Precisely. Out of no malice at all, the bodies ended up incinerated, the incriminating evidence, files, phone call records some how managed to get lost, police staff working on the case transferred, whistle blower minister pursuing the issue died out of not at all mysterious circumstances [0]. All in all it set a new standard on how pogroms are to be run.

But the bottom-line lies in the fact that it had implicit support of the majority, and the party had a keen ear for that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haren_Pandya#2002_Gujarat_riot...