Game of Musical Chairs by IPS Officers

Venue of the Game: Gandhi Nagar, Capital of Gujarat

Participating IPS Officers :–

Sri K.Chakravarthi, Former DGP,

Mr.R.C.Kumar, Former Additional D.G.,

Sri Sanjiv Bhatt, Former I.B.Officer,

Sri A.K.Malhotra, S.I.T. Official,

Sri R.K.Raghavan, Former CBI Director,

Sri P.C.Pande, Former Police Commissioner of Ahmedabad

P.C.Pande is learnt to have submitted over 3000 pages of scanned copies of those records before the Supreme Court appointed Special Investigating team (S.I.T.) although the same gentleman had earlier maintained before the same S.I.T. that many of the Police records were not available as they had ostensibly been destroyed due to passage of time.

Nobody knows what has persuaded P.C.Pande to provide this scanned C.D at the current juncture. Is this due to change of heart or a part of a new strategy adopted by the Modi Government?

It is also astonishing that Gujarat IPS Officer Sanjiv Bhatt filed an affidavit before the Supreme Court referring to a meeting on February 27, 2002 in which Sanjiv Bhatt and other Police officials were briefed by the Chief Minister Narendra Modi that the then situation warranted  –  Muslims to be taught a lesson to ensure that such instances (burning of S-6 bogie of Sabarmati Express in Godhra Station) didn't recur thereafter. He also quotes Modi as saying that “emotions were running very high amongst Hindus and it was imperative that they be allowed to vent out their anger”. Bhatt recorded this evidence before SIT’s DIG, A.K.Malhotra.

Why such a conduct among the top level law-enforcing authorities on such a sensitive matter?