‘SIT dancing to tune of its political grasp’: Congress on allegations in opposition to Ahmed Patel

By Agencies

NEW DELHI: The Congress on Saturday dismissed as “mischievous and manufactured”, Gujarat police SIT’s expenses that its chief Ahmed Patel had financed civil rights activist Teesta Setalvad and hatched a conspiracy to dislodge the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi-led state authorities.

“This is part of the Prime Minister’s systematic strategy to absolve himself of any responsibility for the communal carnage unleashed when he was chief minister of Gujarat in 2002. It was his unwillingness and incapacity to control this carnage that had led the-then Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee to remind the chief minister of his rajdharma,” Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh stated.

The assertion stated that that is Prime Minister’s political vendetta machine which doesn’t even spare the departed who have been his political adversaries.

“This SIT is dancing to the tune of its political master and will sit wherever it is told to. We know how an earlier SIT chief was rewarded with a diplomatic assignment after he had given a ‘clean chit’ to the chief minister,” Jairam stated.

He stated giving judgment via press, in an ongoing judicial course of, via puppet investigative businesses who trumpet wild allegations as supposed findings, has been the hallmark of the Modi-Shah duo’s ways for years.

“This is nothing but another example of the same, with the added object of vilifying a deceased person since he is obviously unable and unavailable to refute such brazen lies.”

Setalvad has been arrested, together with former IPS officers R B Sreekumar and Sanjiv Bhatt, for allegedly fabricating proof to border harmless individuals within the Gujarat riots case.

Citing the statements of a witness, the SIT HAD stated the conspiracy was carried out on the behest of late Ahmed Patel. At Patel’s behest, Setalvad obtained Rs 30 lakh after post-Godhra riots in 2002, it alleged.

Setalvad used to fulfill the leaders of a “prominent national party in power at that time in Delhi to implicate names of senior leaders of the BJP government in riot cases,” the SIT additional claimed.

It cited one other witness to say that Setalvad in 2006 had requested a Congress chief why the get together was giving “chance to only Shabana and Javed” and never making her a member of the Rajya Sabha.

Last month, the Supreme Court dismissed the plea filed by Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, difficult the clear chit given by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to then Chief Minister Narendra Modi and a number of other others within the 2002 Gujarat riots.

Ehsan Jafri was amongst 69 individuals killed throughout violence on the Gulbarg Society in Ahmedabad on February 28, 2002. His widow Zakia Jafri challenged the SIT’s clear chit to 64 individuals together with Narendra Modi who was Chief Minister of Gujarat on the time.

After 58 pilgrims have been burnt alive on the Sabarmati Express prepare at Gujarat’s Godhra Railway Station on February 27, 2002, riots broke out throughout the state by which greater than 1,000 individuals have been killed. (ANI)

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(With on-line desk inputs)

NEW DELHI: The Congress on Saturday dismissed as “mischievous and manufactured”, Gujarat police SIT’s expenses that its chief Ahmed Patel had financed civil rights activist Teesta Setalvad and hatched a conspiracy to dislodge the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi-led state authorities.

“This is part of the Prime Minister’s systematic strategy to absolve himself of any responsibility for the communal carnage unleashed when he was chief minister of Gujarat in 2002. It was his unwillingness and incapacity to control this carnage that had led the-then Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee to remind the chief minister of his rajdharma,” Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh stated.

The assertion stated that that is Prime Minister’s political vendetta machine which doesn’t even spare the departed who have been his political adversaries.

“This SIT is dancing to the tune of its political master and will sit wherever it is told to. We know how an earlier SIT chief was rewarded with a diplomatic assignment after he had given a ‘clean chit’ to the chief minister,” Jairam stated.

He stated giving judgment via press, in an ongoing judicial course of, via puppet investigative businesses who trumpet wild allegations as supposed findings, has been the hallmark of the Modi-Shah duo’s ways for years.

“This is nothing but another example of the same, with the added object of vilifying a deceased person since he is obviously unable and unavailable to refute such brazen lies.”

Setalvad has been arrested, together with former IPS officers R B Sreekumar and Sanjiv Bhatt, for allegedly fabricating proof to border harmless individuals within the Gujarat riots case.

Citing the statements of a witness, the SIT HAD stated the conspiracy was carried out on the behest of late Ahmed Patel. At Patel’s behest, Setalvad obtained Rs 30 lakh after post-Godhra riots in 2002, it alleged.

Setalvad used to fulfill the leaders of a “prominent national party in power at that time in Delhi to implicate names of senior leaders of the BJP government in riot cases,” the SIT additional claimed.

It cited one other witness to say that Setalvad in 2006 had requested a Congress chief why the get together was giving “chance to only Shabana and Javed” and never making her a member of the Rajya Sabha.

Last month, the Supreme Court dismissed the plea filed by Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, difficult the clear chit given by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to then Chief Minister Narendra Modi and a number of other others within the 2002 Gujarat riots.

Ehsan Jafri was amongst 69 individuals killed throughout violence on the Gulbarg Society in Ahmedabad on February 28, 2002. His widow Zakia Jafri challenged the SIT’s clear chit to 64 individuals together with Narendra Modi who was Chief Minister of Gujarat on the time.

After 58 pilgrims have been burnt alive on the Sabarmati Express prepare at Gujarat’s Godhra Railway Station on February 27, 2002, riots broke out throughout the state by which greater than 1,000 individuals have been killed. (ANI)

ALSO READ | Pinarayi flays Congress’ ‘silence’ on arrests of RB Sreekumar, Teesta Setalvad

(With on-line desk inputs)