SC notice to Centre, Gujarat govt on Bhatt’s PIL

Last Updated: Friday, July 29, 2011, 12:29

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Tags: Sanjiv Bhatt, Narendra Modi, 2002 Gujarat riots

SC notice to Centre, Gujarat govt on Bhatt’s PIL

Zeenews Bureau

New Delhi: The Supreme Court, Friday, issued notice to the Centre and Gujarat government on a petition filed by IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, demanding a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) or any other state police agency into the post-Godhra riots case against Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

The apex court has given four weeks time to both the Centre and state government to reply to its notice.

Sanjiv Bhatt, a 1988 cadre IPS officer and the principal of the Reserve Police Training College in Junagadh, had in April filed an affidavit before the Supreme Court, claiming that he was present at an emergency meeting held on February 27, 2002 to review the law and order situation following the Godhra train carnage, which left 59 people dead and triggered a violence that claimed over 1,200 people.

Bhatt had claimed that Chief Minister Narendra Modi had allowed the killing of Muslims in the Godhra communal riots of 2002.

The IPS officer has also complained of "unconcealed hostility" by SIT against him.

He claimed in the affidavit that the Chief Minister had instructed the police authorities to allow Hindus to vent their anger against the Muslims.

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First Published: Friday, July 29, 2011, 11:59

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jai - New Zealand
get rid of corruption in india. india needs a change of govt.

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Swetha sharma - Ahmedabad
it seems that sit chief mr.raghavan plays fiddle only to modi as he is also may have that hindutva feeling. i am damn sure he can’t be neutral. because he is close to mr.cho who is a hindutva fanatic. so solution to gujarat riots can be found only by honest and neutral, humane, ethical officers like mr.bhatt. bhatt ji go ahead. we secular gujaratis are with you. let’s make gujarat to shine without someone’s blood but by peace and harmony.

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Natarajan - Mumbai
sweta, i was annoyed with 90% of the general readers commenting in communal & irresponsible ways. but after reading your comment (eventhough you are a hindu gujarathi), i feel that everything is not lost. thank you. irrespective of religions, class, caste & other things, we should learn to give values to humanity. &

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karan - mumbai
where was he from last 8-9 years. this is nothing but he is playing in the hands of currept congress party.

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AMISHA PATEL - SURAT
its better for you to read his affidavit he filed in sc to know what he was doing in those perios and why he couldn`t tell that at that time.also why bjp is crying foul about blackmoney now? what they wwere doing in vajpayee time? why they are worried about terrorism now only? what they were doing when parliament itself was attacked?

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Bhupendra Patel - USA
ms. amisha and ms. swetha, did you both happen to read the news about shariya law being imposed in the parts of various cities of england. muslim organisation of england has done it already. it was in the news yesterday. i am not saying that we all need to hate muslims. what i am saying is did you feel the pain of the people who were burnt alive in the train? also, what is the muslim community of india doing to improve their image? every other day their maulavi`s put forth some strange fatwa`s against someone who tried to improve the muslim image. muslim community raises a hell when us attacks iraq or afghanistan, but they all stay quite and watch when budha statue gets demolished. nobody says a word then. the entire muslim world stays quite when the hare rama hare krishna temples were destroyed in kazhakistan. just go and try to talk to them about improvement and see what happens.