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

[Kshmendra Kaul]

Dear AKM
 
Excellently well made point
 
Kshmendra

--- On Mon, 3/15/10, A.K. Malik <akmalik45 at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: A.K. Malik <akmalik45 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Encounter was a policy in Gujarat: Ex-DGP Sreekumar
To: "Javed" <javedmasoo at gmail.com>
Cc: reader-list at sarai.net
Date: Monday, March 15, 2010, 6:16 PM


Hi Javed,
          Just for your information see part of the news item:
"The Haryana special task force (STF) is supposed to fight terrorists and serious crime, so it hurts the state when the team’s members were caught on camera robbing a stockbroker in Panipat.
Seven STF men, dressed in plainclothes, struck twice on March 11. They first allegedly looted Rs 6 lakh from a stockbroker after tying him up. They then tried to extort Rs 10 lakh from jeweller V K Malhotra, claiming to be members of the Haryana vigilance department.
Malhotra gave the STF men Rs one lakh and asked them to collect the remaining amount after 30 minutes."
So this news item need to be converted to HARYANA POLICE STF LOOTS HINDU TRADERS.What if they happened to be muslims.
Regards,

(A.K.MALIK)


--- On Mon, 3/15/10, Javed <javedmasoo at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Javed <javedmasoo at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Reader-list] Encounter was a policy in Gujarat: Ex-DGP Sreekumar
> To: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Date: Monday, March 15, 2010, 6:03 PM
> 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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