[Reader-list] Encounter was a policy in Gujarat: Ex-DGP Sreekumar

[Pawan Durani]

Javed are you trying to justify your mischief.

Do you know what is the difference between "Was" and "Is". And did
encounters not happen in J&K , PUnjab , UP , Bihar < Karnataka ,
Maharashtra. I do not justify any of these either.

But the way you have tried to make Gujarat 'accident' as a Hindu Vs
Muslim was a desperate act.

You should apologize to group. We can see through your intent.

Pawan


On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Javed <javedmasoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Everyday we see hundreds of maligning mails from the regulars on
> Sarai. So why not a little more sensationalizing via these old news
> items. Sorry for filling up your inboxes.
>
> ---
>
> Encounter was a policy in Gujarat: Ex-DGP Sreekumar
>
> Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, former director
> general of police R B Sreekumar said encounters were done by the state
> “as a matter of policy”. Recalling his interactions with the then
> chief secretary G S Subbarao, when Sreekumar was Gujarat’s
> intelligence chief during 2002 riots, the former director general of
> police said: “Subbarao told me that we will have to kill some people
> to prove that the Gujarat Police is very strong. I did not agree with
> him and said that it will amount to entering into a conspiracy under
> Section 120-B of the IPC.”
>
> With Judicial Magistrate S P Tamang’s report holding 21 police
> personnel responsible for the fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan and three
> others in June 2004, relatives of two other alleged victims of
> extra-judicial killing by the Gujarat Police, Mahendra Jadav and
> Jaffer Qasim, came here from Mumbai on Wednesday and demanded judicial
> inquiry into the two incidents. Sumitra Jadhav, mother of Mahendra,
> and Mariam, widow of Jaffer, have already moved the Supreme Court
> through Mumbai-based NGO, Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP). They
> have also asked the state for compensation.
>
> Sreekumar, along with Teesta Setalvad of the CJP, was present at the
> press conference. Sumitra and Mariam narrated how their relatives were
> allegedly killed by the state police.
>
> Sreekumar said the statement of the state government spokesperson, Jay
> Narayan Vyas, regarding Tamang’s report “amounted to contempt of
> court”. Vyas had stated that the magistrate had submitted his inquiry
> report in a hurry by overstepping his jurisdiction and the government
> will challenge it in the high court.
>
> Sreekumar had earned the wrath of the state government for deposing
> against it before the Nanavati-Shah panel probing Godhra and
> post-Godhra riots of 2002. He was denied promotion by the Modi
> government. However, he got his promotion post-retirement after an
> order was issued by the Central Administrative Tribunal.
>
> New Delhi: Gujarat government on Wednesday opposed handing over the
> probe into the killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh in a fake encounter to
> the CBI or the Special Investigating Team (SIT) even as the Supreme
> Court said there was a need for going into the bottom of the case to
> erase all doubts. “The state has to go to the bottom of the case. The
> investigation has to be beyond all doubts,” a Bench comprising
> Justices Tarun Chatterjee and Aftab Alam said.
>
> Even as senior advocate Dushyant Dave, arguing on behalf of
> Sohrabuddin’s brother Rubabuddin, the petitioner, urged the court to
> hand over the probe from the state police to an independent agency
> like the SIT, state’s counsel opposed it saying that every time it
> cannot be assumed that the Gujarat Police was acting with prejudice.
> Senior counsel Mukul Rohatgi, who defended the Modi government,
> submitted that when the state has admitted that Sohrabuddin was killed
> in a fake encounter and the chargesheet has been filed in the case,
> there’s not much left for apex court to monitor. “In this case, the
> monitoring by SC must come to an end,” he argued.
>
> “This is no less disturbing when you admit that this is a fake
> encounter,” the Bench remarked when Rohatgi opposed the suggestion to
> hand over the investigations to the SIT or CBI against the wishes of
> the state government.
>
> http://www.indianexpress.com/news/encounter-was-a-policy-in-gujarat-exdgp-sreekumar/515260/0
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