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| Narendra Modi govt targets another |
| Narendra Modi govt targets another whistleblower cop
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| INDIA
, 11-August-2011
4:45:55 AM |
| The Narendra Modi government has targeted another whistleblower cop in Gujarat. Sources have told NDTV that it will soon file a chargesheet against IPS officer Rahul Sharma for giving call record details related to 2002 Godhra riots to Nanavati Commission without informing the government.
Phone records collected by Sharma between February 27 and March 4, 2002 show that post the Godhra incident, rioters on the streets were in touch with policemen and politicians. The government has alleged that some of these records are inaccurate and that the CD given by Sharma is doctored.
Sharma is currently posted with the State Reserve Police (SRP) in Rajkot. He was served a show cause notice in February 2011 asking him why he should not be chargesheeted.
Earlier this week, the Gujarat government suspended whistleblower police officer Sanjeev Bhatt. The 1988-batch IPS officer was served a five-page suspension letter by the state Home Department, charging him with unauthorised absence.
Bhatt's suspension order came just three days after he told the Supreme Court that the state government, which is meant to prosecute those accused of the communal riots of 2002, has actually been leaking information for use in their defence.
Bhatt made headlines in the last few months after he told the Supreme Court that he attended a meeting on February 27, 2002 which was chaired by Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Five days before that meeting, 59 people were killed in a train near Godhra; most of them were kar-sevaks on their way back from Ayodhya. Communal tension was surging through the state. Bhatt was posted with the State Intelligence Bureau at the time. He has said that at the meeting, the Chief Minister told the policemen to remain indifferent to calls of help from those being attacked by rioters.
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