Two Senior Police Officers have been suspended.
While the Gujarat Government says that Sanjiv Bhat was dismissed for insubordination,Rahul Sharma and Rajneesh Rai for the same reason and for divulging official records to Nanavati Commission.
Sanjiv Bhatt,in an interview to Times Now news channel has admitted the following.
-He had been in touch with the Opposition Leader(Congress) and had accepted a Blackberry from him for ‘secure Communication‘ as his phone was tapped.
-He had been helping the Opposition,(though he did not say it in these words) by exchanging correspondence with him on the subject, as he (Bhatt) felt that injustice was being done and efforts were on to cover-up.
-He kept mum for about five to six years because he was in ‘Intelligence Department’.
– He had accessed emails of Police Reports sent to him by a friend,a Civilian.
Questions are.
How can a serving Police Officer be in touch with Leader Of the Opposition Party while in Service?
He says he kept quiet for six years because he was in ‘Intelligence’ as though Official Secrets Act applies only to those in Intelligence and not to others.
If he had felt that injustice and cover-up is on he should have resigned and gone to Media and filed a case against the Government immediately as he doing now.
He had accessed emails of others!
-then what is hacking ?that too a sensitive Police report?
If he wanted to have Secure Communication he should have bought a Blackberry on his own and not accept the same from the Opposition.
He can not arrogate himself to be an accuser and Jury by himself.
If evry civil servant behaves the same way ,what is the sanctity of the Official Secrets Act and how does one run the Administration?
The veiled threat of Chidambaram,the Home Minister,offering an escape route to those who violate Service Rules amounts to encouraging insubordination.
He forgets that Police is on State List and not on Central nor on Concurrent List.
All the more funny,coming froma Congressman ,the party which twists investigating Agencies and changes officers because they do not toe Congress line!
Instances are too many,Bofors,Quotrochchi,Nagarvala are a few pointers.
Finally this blog is not to condone excesses-let the process of law be followed LEGALLY.
Rajnish Rai, who has for some months now been on a collision course with the state government, has filed a rejoinder with the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) alleging that he was victimised by his senior officers since he had carried out an unbiased probe in the Sohrabuddin case. The CAT adjudicates in disputes and complaints with respect to recruitment and conditions of service of persons appointed to public services.
Mr Rai filed the rejoinder in the ongoing case challenging his downgrading of the Annual Confidential Report (ACR) by his then senior officers P C Pande and O P Mathur. The downgrading of the ACR, which can affect officers prospects for promotion, was stayed by the tribunal in April.
Mr Rai also alleged that Mr Pande and Mr Mathur had directed him not to record investigation details in connection with the encounter of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsiram Prajapati.
Mr Rai says PC Pande played an acquiescent role to the criminal conspiracy of the then Minister of State for Home Amit Shah and others who tampered with official records pertaining to the Sohrabuddin case in the office of the Criminal Investigation Department (Crime).
He further alleged that Mr Pande hid the truth from the Supreme Court by deleting facts from the draft Action Taken Reports which were uncomfortable to the state government.
Mr Rai is one of the few senior ‘whistleblower’ police officers who have alleged that they were targeted by the Narendra Modi government.
Sohrabuddin Sheikh was shot dead in November 2005 on the outskirts of Ahmedabad. His wife, Kauser Bi, was killed a few days later. At the time, Gujarat’s Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) said that Sohrabuddin was a terrorist who planned to assassinate Modi. In 2007, the Gujarat state government admitted in court that Sohrabuddin and Kauser Bi had been wrongly killed. Some of the state’s senior-most policemen are in jail, charged with murder, criminal conspiracy, and kidnapping. (Read: Who was Sohrabuddin Sheikh?)
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