Ex-Gujarat DGP accuses SIT of ignoring vital evidence

The Supreme Court appointed SIT (Special Investigation Team),  in the process of finalising its report in the Zakiya Jafri complaint against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, has come under fire yet again from former DGP R B Sreekumar and suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt.

Sreekumar wrote an open letter to the ‘citizens of the nation’. Bhatt shot off another letter to SIT chief R K Raghavan accusing the SIT of ignoring vital evidences, which could establish the role of Modi in the 2002 post-Godhra riots. Sreekumar alleged that Raghavan was ‘turning a nelsons eye’ towards the evidences, incriminating to
the chief minister.

“I have submitted through my nine affidavits to the Nanavati commission so far which provide unchallengeable evidences about the sabotage of Criminal Justice system, intimidation of witnesses, use of punishment and rewards to coerce officers to implement Modi governments covert agenda of Hindu sectarian mobilization. But all these have been ignored by the SIT,’’ Sreekumar’s letter read.

The former DGP further stated that even after submitting the evidence to the SIT in  2008, he was neither called for examination nor made a witness during the ongoing trial in the riot case of naroda patiya.

Bhatt in the letter told the SIT chief that during the course of his deposition before the team he had reportedly provided additional facts about the role and conduct of the chief minister in propagating the conspiracy theory about the Godhra train carnage, during a meeting on March 1, 2002.  

Bhatt claimed that the apparently unusual behaviour of the chief minister, then Joint Director Central Intelligence Bureau Rajendra Kumar, IPS, and Secretary Home Department Gujarat K Nityanandam ,IPS, had prompted him to obtain all the cell-phone records from various areas of Gujarat, including Godhra, for 26 and 27 February 26-27, 2002, as well as the call records of certain high dignitaries including the chief minister for February 27-28, 2002.