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Should Modi take responsibility for fake encounter killings?
Published on Tue, May 01, 2007 at 10:46, Updated on Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 11:39 in India section
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New Delhi: The Gujarat government has admitted before the Supreme Court that the wife of a fake encounter victim was also murdered.
Kausar Bi was killed on November 28, 2005. This was two days after police framed her husband, Sohrabuddin Sheikh, as a terrorist and killed him near Ahmedabad.
Two IPS officers from Gujarat and another officer from Rajasthan are under arrest for allegedly killing Sheikh.
The Centre has demanded that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) take over the case and the Opposition wants that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his Home Minister Amit Shah resign.
The government’s admission raises a question: should Narendra Modi take responsibility for the fake encounter killings?
CNN-IBN’s Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai asked this on Face The Nation to a panel comprising former additional director general of Gujarat police R B Sreekumar, Congress MP from Sabarkantha Madhusudan Mistry and former MP Prafull Goradia.
Is it fair to blame Narendra Modi?
Modi’s supporters say why blame him or his government when it’s not just the Gujarat police who have been accused of involvement-the Andhra Pradesh police allegedly helped in arresting the couple.
Mistry alleged encounters in Gujarat occur whenever Modi is facing a “revolt” in the BJP. “I hold him personally responsible, because under his direction all this action has been taken. If you look at the trend so far whenever there was a threat against Modi from inside the party and there was a revolt against him, one or two encounters took place.”
Mistry claimed that were at least 10 encounters in Gujarat under the “leadership” of arrested IPS officer D G Vanjhara, chief of the Anti-Terrorist Squad. “We want CBI to find out if the Home Minister or the Chief Minister were involved. It’s a question whether CID will be able to probe the political connection.”
Cops get the blame
Modi’s critics allege the police couldn’t have dared to kill the couple without the consent of their political masters.
Goradia though demanded to know why the Gujarat government is being “singled out” for the murders.
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