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Modi has played a role in anti-Muslim riots: Ex DGP

By News Desk
Updated Thursday, 16 February 2012 11:02:08 - IST (UTC +5:30)

New Delhi: A retired high ranking police officer KS Subramanian has supported suspended Gujarat IPS Officer Sanjeev Bhat’s claim that Chief Minister Narendra Modi had played a role from behind in anti-Muslim riots of 2002. Modi had personally instructed senior state police officials to remain passive against rioters which broke out next day of his instructions. Sanjeev Bhat has revealed that the Chief Minister had instructed police officials to “allow” Hindus to vent their anger Muslims, following the Godhra train carnage on February 27, 2002.
A 1963-batch IPS officer KS Subramanian, who retired as Tripura's DGP in 1997 had visited Gujarat after the 2002 anti-Muslim riots as a member of the fact-finding team led by former Supreme Court judge justice VR Krishna Iyer. Currently a senior research fellow at the Indian Council for Social Science Research in Delhi, Subramanian relied on what he was told by top police officials. He has moved an application in the Supreme Court to be made a party to a Gujarat riots case.
The officer said he had met Gujarat police chief K Chakravarthi and PC Pande, then Ahmedabad police commissioner, soon after the riots. "The applicant (Subramanian) enquired from Mr Chakravarthi as to what had transpired at the February 27 meeting. Chakravarthi candidly said that the chief minister had said to those present in the meeting that a bandh had been called by the VHP (Vishwa Hindu Parishad) the next day to protest the Godhra killings," he stated.
"The chief minister's party, the BJP, was supporting the bandh and he (Modi) said that though there may be law and order problems, the officers should respect Hindu sentiments and act accordingly," Subramanian said.
"PC Pande also gave a similar version of what transpired at the meeting with the chief minister and used almost the same words," he said in the application.
Sanjeev Bhatt was one of the officers who present in the meeting. This he had stated in an affidavit he filed before the Supreme Court last April. The Meeting was chaired by Modi in which he had instructed senior government officials to allow Hindus to "vent their anger" during the clashes and wanted Muslims to be "taught a lesson".
The Supreme Court, however, had declined to take Bhatt's affidavit on record. The Special Investigation Team appointed by the top court dismissed Subramanian's application also as "an account based on hearsay."

Tags: News Desk Modi, Gujarat\' riots, Sanjeev Bhat, Subramanian

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