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Top Gujarat cop questions integrity of riot probe team

Saturday April 23, 2011 03:14:49 PM, ummid.com & Agencies

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New Delhi: Top Gujarat cop Sanjiv Bhatt, who has openly challenged Chief Minister Narendra Modi by accusing him of wanting to teach Muslims a "lesson" after the Godhra train attack also questioned in his affidavit the integrity of the Special Investigating Team (SIT) which is probing the 2002 riots at the behest of the Supreme Court.

 

"I believe it is my painful duty to bring to the notice of this Hon'ble Court that the SIT does not appear to be living up to the enormous trust reposed in it by the Supreme Court of India, to conduct an impartial and thorough probe into the allegations of a larger conspiracy and administrative complicity behind the Gujarat riots of 2002 and hence the present affidavit", Bhaat filed in his affidavit to the Supreme Court.


"SIT has chosen to intimidate certain witnesses and coerce them in to refraining from stating the true facts and thereby has created an impression that the SIT is becoming a party to the ongoing cover-up operation in Gujarat", he added.

"I have stated before the SIT that many serious incidents of communal violence, including the carnage at Gulberg Society, could have been easily prevented by firm and determined action on part of the Police", he said.

 

"The leakage of details regarding my earlier deposition and interaction with SIT have eventually found their way to the media and have further jeopardized my safety and the safety and security of my family members", the Gujarat top cop said in his affidavit.

"Even today, the situation in Gujarat is such, that witnesses would be afraid of vindictive reprisals and persecution at the hand of the State machinery", he said.

 

"Evidently", he added, "Witnesses serving under the control of State government would be highly reluctant to come forward and take a stand that could imperil their own safety or the safety and security of their families."

 

"I therefore request that this Hon'ble Court be pleased to ensure that the SIT follows up on all the leads provided by me in such manner that even reluctant witnesses feel safe and confident to state the truth", the Indian Police Service (IPS) officer said in his affidavit to the Supreme Court.

 

Bhatt also said that there was continuous leakage of testimonies and information from SIT to the Gujarat government, which he had mentioned to the investigation group.

"It may kindly be noted that my fears regarding the confidentiality of my deposition before SIT were eventually confirmed as the contents of my signed deposition as well as the details of my interaction with Shri A.K. Malhotra and Shri Paramveer Singh-Members SIT, were somehow available to the highest echelons of the Government of Gujarat. As a result and consequence of the said breach of confidentiality, I was visited and continue to be visited with unpleasant consequences," he said in his affidavit said.

 


 



 

 

 

 

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