No efforts by SIT to probe illegally disposed bodies of riot
PTI | 09:01 PM,Jan 30,2012victims: Bhatt Ahmedabad, Jan 30 (PTI) Suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt today claimed the Supreme Court-appointed SIT has not made any efforts to probe into allegations of bodies of the Naroda Patiya riot victims being illegally disposed of in a well despite specific documents supplied by him. The allegation was made in a letter written by Bhatt to SIT chairman R K Raghavan. Bhatt also reiterated his request to get his statement recorded before a magistrate under the provisions of Section 164(1) of CrPC in the missive. Along with the letter, Bhatt has also annexed copies of the letters issued by State Intelligence Bureau (SIB) intimating the Ahmedabad Police Commissioner about reports of foul smell purportedly emanating from the decomposed bodies of the riot victims that were allegedly disposed of in the abandoned well on an open ground behind the State Transport Workshop in Naroda Patiya area. "I had submitted detailed information and documents to the SIT regarding the illegal disposal of unaccounted dead bodies of the Naroda massacre of February 28/March 01, 2002," Bhatt stated in his letter to Raghavan. "I believe that no genuine and sincere efforts have been made till date by any agency, including the SIT, to excavate the site for exhumation of the remains of the unaccounted and unidentified victims of Naroda (Patiya) massacre," he alleged. "These documents were being submitted for sole purpose of ensuring that crucial evidence is not disregarded or concealed by the SIT with a view to screen powerful and influential offenders from legal punishment," Bhatt said. Ninety-five people were killed at Naroda Patiya in the communal violence triggered by the Godhra train burning incident.
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