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Old
case haunts Ishrat Jahan probe team member
Thursday May 12, 2011 10:56:47 PM,
IANS
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Gandhinagar: The Gujarat High
Court was Thursday told that Indian Police Service (IPS) officer
Satish Verma, who is a member of the court-appointed probe team in
the Ishrat Jahan case, is likely to face charges of negligence in
an 18-year-old case.
Advocate General Kamal Trivedi Thursday informed a bench of
Justices Jayant Patel and J.C. Upadhayay hearing a review petition
by Verma, seeking protection over government's coercive action
against him in the Gosabara arm landing case, that recommendation
has been made to initiate actions against him and is pending
before the authorities.
His statement came after the bench wanted to know what action the
government proposed to initiate against Verma. Trivedi however did
not disclose the nature of action proposed by the state.
In his plea filed Wednesday, Verma contended that he might be
targeted by the state government as he had taken a strong stand in
the probe and sought filing of an case against the policemen who
were part of the team that gunned down the Mumbai college students
and three others.
Varma's plea came after a bench of Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhya
and Justice J.B. Pardiwala ordered the state government to act
upon a report prepared by Additional Director General of Police
(Administration) Pramod Kumar accusing Verma, IPS officer Atul
Karval and police inspector Sukhdevsinh Zala of letting off Sattar
Maulana, a key accused of the Gosabara arm landing case, when they
were posted at Porbandar in 1993.
A part of the RDX consignment landed at Gosabara near Porbandar
was used in the Mumbai serial blasts.
The government entrusted the task to Promod Kumar following a
public interest litigation (PIL) filed by senior lawyer and former
Bharatiya Janata Party legislator Yatin Oza seeking action against
the officers as they acted against national interest.
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