[Reader-list] Teesta Setalvad cooked up macabre tales on Gujarat Riots : SIT

[Venugopalan K M]

What is so great in police doing its work?
What about the dreaded  Tehelka exposes ,the verbal and visual accounts of
criminals masqueraded as guardians of Hindus and wilful partners of the
powers that be in carrying out macabre killings and rapes?
What about that part played by Teesta which actually had terrible positive
impact on the administration? What about the part played by a senior IAS
Officer who took voluntary retirement subsequent to the extremely partisan
ways of propagating hate by the state administration? What would you say
about the role of Lyngdho as the Chief Election Commissioner that time?
Please don't be under the impression that people are stupid enough to buy
this kind of stories as in the post. These appear to have a particular
mission of taking the stories too far by employing character assassination
and such things. You will simply fail..and people are getting more ,more
these representatives of the police establishment open their mouths about
what actually happened!
Regards,




Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Aditya Raj Kaul <kauladityaraj at gmail.com>wrote:

> NGOs, Teesta spiced up Gujarat riot incidents: SITThe Times of India
> 14 Apr 2009, 1213 hrs IST, Dhananjay Mahapatra, TNN
>
>
> NEW DELHI: The Special Investigation Team responsible for the arrests of
> those accused in Gujarat
> riots<
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/NGOs-spiced-up-Gujarat-riot-cases/articleshow/4396986.cms#
> >has
> severely censured NGOs and social
> activist Teesta Setalvad who campaigned for the riot victims.
>
> In a significant development, the SIT led by former CBI director R K
> Raghavan told the Supreme
> Court<
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/NGOs-spiced-up-Gujarat-riot-cases/articleshow/4396986.cms#
> >on
> Monday that the celebrated rights activist cooked up macabre tales of
> wanton killings.
>
> Many incidents of killings and violence were cooked up, false charges were
> levelled against then police chief P C Pandey and false witnesses were
> tutored to give evidence about imaginary incidents, the SIT said in a
> report
> submitted before a Bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat, P Sathasivam
> and Aftab Alam.
>
> The SIT said it had been alleged in the Gulbarg Society case that Pandey,
> instead of taking measures to protect people facing the wrath of rioteers,
> was helping the mob. The truth was that he was helping with hospitalisation
> of riot victims and making arrangements for police bandobast, Gujarat
> counsel, senior advocate Mukul Rohtagi, said quoting from the SIT report.
>
> Rohtagi also said that 22 witnesses, who had submitted identical
> affidavits<
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/NGOs-spiced-up-Gujarat-riot-cases/articleshow/4396986.cms#
> >before
> various courts relating to riot incidents, were questioned by the SIT
> which found that they had been tutored and handed over the affidavits by
> Setalvad and that they had not actually witnessed the riot incidents.
>
> The SIT also found no truth in the following incidents widely publicised by
> the NGOs:
>
> * A pregnant Muslim woman Kausar Banu was gangraped by a mob, who then
> gouged out the foetus with sharp weapons
>
> * Dumping of dead bodies into a well by rioteers at Naroda Patiya
>
> * Police botching up investigation into the killing of British nationals,
> who were on a visit to Gujarat and unfortunately got caught in the riots
>
> Rohtagi said: "On a reading of the report, it is clear that horrendous
> allegations made by the NGOs were false. Stereotyped affidavits were
> supplied by a social activist and the allegations made in them were found
> untrue."
>
> Obviously happy with the fresh findings of the SIT which was responsible
> for
> the recent arrests of former Gujarat minister Maya Kodanani and VHP leader
> Jaideep Patel, Rohtagi tried to spruce up the image of the Modi
> administration, which was castigated in the Best Bakery case by the apex
> court as "modern day Neros". He was swiftly told by the Bench that but for
> the SIT, many more accused, who are freshly added, would not have been
> brought to book<
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/NGOs-spiced-up-Gujarat-riot-cases/articleshow/4396986.cms#
> >.
>
>
> The Bench said there was no room for allegations and counter-allegations at
> this late stage. "In riot cases, the more the delay, there is likelihood of
> falsity creeping in. So, there should be a designated court to fast track
> the trials. Riot cases should be given priority because feelings run high
> having a cascading effect," it said and asked for suggestions from the
> Gujarat government, Centre, NGOs and amicus curiae Harish Salve, who said
> the time had come for the apex court to lift the stay on trials into
> several
> post-Godhra riot cases.
>
> While additional
> solicitor<
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/NGOs-spiced-up-Gujarat-riot-cases/articleshow/4396986.cms#
> >general
> Gopal Subramaniam agreed with the court that public prosecutors
> should be selected in consultation with Raghavan, counsel Indira Jaising
> said there should be a complete regime for protection of witnesses as the
> same government, which was accused of engineering the riots, was in power
> now.
>
> Salve said that he would consult Raghavan and let the court know about a
> witness protection system for post-Godhra riot cases. The court asked the
> parties to submit their suggestions within a week.
>
> dhananjay.mahapatra at timesgroup.com
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