Jafri Wife Accuses CM, Togadia Of Murder

Complaint against Modi for Guj riots

Citing Top Cop�s Testimony, Slain Ex-MP Ehsan Jafri�s Wife Accuses CM, Togadia Of Murder

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Ahmedabad: Chief minister Narendra Modi, his ministers, VHP leader Praveen Togadia, DGP P C Pande, his officers and some bureaucrats are accused of murder and perjury in a complaint filed by the wife of slain ex-MP Ehsan Jafri.
   Based on her complaint, Jafri�s wife Zakiya has requested the police to register an FIR under Section 154 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. She accused 63 persons, who held important positions in the Modi dispensation during the riots in 2002. They continue to do so even today.
   The complaint draws heavily from affidavits filed before the Nanavati-Shah commission and treats them as evidence. The failure of officials to file affidavits and that of the government in coercing them against it, has also been taken as an evidence of omission.
   Jafri�s complaint cites heavily from four affidavits filed by additional DGP R B Sreekumar, the only officer who testified about a meeting addressed by Modi on February 27, 2002, to �allow Hindus to vent their anger�� after the Godhra carnage.
   Apart from Modi, the list of accused includes eight ministers, including Ashok Bhatt, Amit Shah and I K Jadeja. Seven MLAs, including Gordhan Zadaphia and Madhu Srivastava, VHP leaders K K Shastri, Jaideep Patel and Bajrang dal�s Babu Bajrangi are also accused. The IAS officers include former chief secretary G Subbarao, vigilance commissioner Ashok Narayan, P K Mishra and G C Murmu along with six district collectors. Among the 29 police officers charged are former DGPs K Chakravarthi and A K Bhargava, Shivanand Jha who is now secretary (home), police commissioners K R Kaushik (Ahmedabad), Sudhir Sinha (Surat) and K Nityanandam (Rajkot) and other officers and inspectors who handled investigations.
   Witnesses suggested in the complaint are principal secretary (home) K C Kapoor, former Panchmahals collector Jayanti Ravi, IPS officers Vinod Mall, Sanjeev Bhatt, Piyush Patel, Neerja Rao and others.
   Copies of the complaint have been sent to the chief secretary, home secretary and police inspector of Sector 21 police station in Gandhinagar. They have been charged under the IPC, Commissions of Inquiry Act, Gujarat Police Act and Protection of Human Rights Act.
   Accusing the above of omission and commission, Zakiya Jafri said, �There has been a culpable ommission and misconduct on the part of senior officers by not filing their affidavits. It is learnt that on the verbal instructions from the chief minister, senior officers deliberately avoided filing their affidavits on the second terms of reference to the Nanavati Commission.��
   The complaint notes how Jafri�s death was not condoled in the house as per protocol.