Godhra panel orders inquiry in destruction of ‘02 riot papers
10 Jan 2013 7:31 AM IST
Heeding the demand of suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, Nanavati Commission on Wednesday ordered a high-level inquiry into the alleged destruction of 2002 post-Godhra riot papers.
The Commission, headed by Justice (retd) G T Nanavati, probing the 2002 Gujarat riots, ordered the setting up of a committee comprising home secretary M D Antani and additional director general of police, State Arms Unit, Tirthraj. The committee has been directed to inquire whether the documents sought to be inspected by Bhatt were maintained by the state government or Director General’s Office or Intelligence Bureau or by none of them.
The Commission has also directed the committee to find out when and under what circumstances certain documents were destroyed either by the state authorities and to give its report within three weeks from Wednesday.
Raising doubts over the government’s claims of destruction of some 2002 post-Godhra riots-related documents, Bhatt had pleaded to the Commission to appoint a high-level investigation.
Bhatt had filed an application on 9 Nov, last year before the Commission with the chronology of events starting with his deposition in June 2011 before the panel, when a senior state government counsel for the first time had claimed the destruction of documents, till the affidavit filed by the state with the probe panel mentioning the destruction of documents.
The Commission, headed by Justice (retd) G T Nanavati, probing the 2002 Gujarat riots, ordered the setting up of a committee comprising home secretary M D Antani and additional director general of police, State Arms Unit, Tirthraj. The committee has been directed to inquire whether the documents sought to be inspected by Bhatt were maintained by the state government or Director General’s Office or Intelligence Bureau or by none of them.
The Commission has also directed the committee to find out when and under what circumstances certain documents were destroyed either by the state authorities and to give its report within three weeks from Wednesday.
Raising doubts over the government’s claims of destruction of some 2002 post-Godhra riots-related documents, Bhatt had pleaded to the Commission to appoint a high-level investigation.
Bhatt had filed an application on 9 Nov, last year before the Commission with the chronology of events starting with his deposition in June 2011 before the panel, when a senior state government counsel for the first time had claimed the destruction of documents, till the affidavit filed by the state with the probe panel mentioning the destruction of documents.
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