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IPS
officer's affidavit courageous but reveals nothing new: Chidambaram
Monday April 25, 2011 01:44:49 PM,
IANS
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Kolkata:
Welcoming the statement of senior IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt blaming
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for the 2002 communal
carnage, Home Minister P. Chidambaram Monday said he was glad that
people were standing up to say what they felt and such allegations
have been "in the air for quite some time".
"These allegations or these statements have been in the air for
quite some time. Only now people have summoned the courage to make
them public," Chidambaram told reporters here.
Chidambaram said that according to Bhatt, he had made the
statement before the Special Investigation Team (SIT) earlier, but
it was not taken seriously.
"Today, I read that another IAS (Indian Administrative Service)
officer has made such a statement. But anyone who has closely
followed what was happening in Gujarat knows that a number of
people were willing to speak the truth but were afraid to speak.
"Now many of them are wiling to come forward and make statements,"
the minister said.
The minister said whether these officers are speaking the truth or
not has to be established through an investigation.
"I am glad people are standing up to say what they feel happened
during the period," he added.
Bhatt, who was part of the state intelligence set up then, blamed
Modi for the communal carnage, saying the chief minister wanted
Muslims to be taught "a lesson" for the Feb 27, 2002 Godhra train
burning that left 59 Kar Sevaks dead and that Hindus should "be
allowed to vent their anger".
"I have deposed before the Special Investigation Team (SIT), the
Nanavaty-Mehta judicial enquiry commission probing the 2002
communal riots and the process I have gone through has made me go
for the affidavit before the Supreme Court. Rest, I leave it to
the apex court. If I am called, I will depose before it," he said.
To questions why he had remained silent so long, Bhatt has said
nobody had asked him anything till 2009. "When the SIT asked me, I
testified thereafter but the process left me concerned and
therefore the affidavit," he said.
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