Congress has declared a war on us through CBI, we will fight it out. - Nitin Gadkari by Sandhya Bhardwaj
by Sandhya Bhardwaj on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 at 10:00am
Under the UPA rule, terrorists are treated with Biryani and those patriotic police officials and their political bosses who deal with terrorists are humiliated like hardened criminals. By fabricating false and frivolous charges through its pincer, the CBI, and by arresting Amitbhai Shah, the Home Minister of Gujarat on that basis, the central government has declared a hostile political war on the best performing state government in the country led by Narendera Modi. The BJP regards this as equally a war on itself. The BJP accepts this political challenge and will meet this political hostility and also meet the legal challenge posed by the prosecution. The CBI, which has over the last few decades come to acquire the infamous identity of Congress of Bureau of Intimidation, has been leaking false allegations to the media against the Gujarat Home Minister in the last couple of months linking him with the encounter death of Syed Sohrabuddin. The Congress strategy, being implemented through CBI is clearly to vitiate the atmosphere against him and to facilitate his eventual arrest.
Imprisonment without Interrogation
The manner in which the CBI treated Amitbhai itself betrays its not so hidden intentions. First, the CBI began planting a news item in the media that they just wanted to question Amitbhai on the Sohrabuddin encounter; when he wrote to them saying that he was willing to meet them to answer their questions, they took a step back and did not send any summons to him. Then they began planting news items day after day saying that the arrest of Amitbhai Shah was imminent. Last week, this rumour mongering peaked. On Thursday the CBI sent a summon asking Amit shah to appear on an hour’s notice saying that it wanted to question him as he was aware of the facts relating to the encounter, but at the same time briefed the media that they were about to arrest him. As Amit shah was advised to ask for a day’s time to find out what was the CBI’s real motive, on Friday they again sent summon giving an hour’s time to appear to be examined in the context of offence relating to destruction of evidence and at the same time they had briefed the media that he would be arrested forthwith. As Shah was advised to wait to know whether they wanted to examine him or arrest him, and also move an anticipatory bail, the CBI suddenly filed a charge sheet on Friday charging Amit Shah with murder and conspiracy and leaked out the details of the charges including alleged extortion, and began to send out teams to arrest him. Yesterday Amitbhai Shah had gone to the CBI office and asked to be questioned; but he was not – repeat NOT at all questioned – and was taken to the court where the CBI told the court that it was not interested in examining/interogating him, and asked for judicial custody of Amitbhai. So it is evident that the whole story of examining Amit Shah to know his version was a farce and theatrical, and it was evident that the CBI had decided to arrest him rather than examine him. This itself shows what was the true intent of the CBI action.
Congress Bureau of Intimidation
The CBI, which was entrusted by the hon’ble Supreme Court with the task of investigating the Sohrabuddin encounter death of Soharabuddin and killing of his alleged wife Kausarbi , began to target the Gujarat government from the word go. When the Sohrabuddin case was specifically brought before it, the hon’ble Court had necessarily to resort to the central agency as the state police officials were suspected of involvement. But once it received the mandate, the CBI acted not as the chosen agency of the Supreme Court, but as the instrument of the Congress party and the government at the centre.
Imprisonment without Interrogation
The manner in which the CBI treated Amitbhai itself betrays its not so hidden intentions. First, the CBI began planting a news item in the media that they just wanted to question Amitbhai on the Sohrabuddin encounter; when he wrote to them saying that he was willing to meet them to answer their questions, they took a step back and did not send any summons to him. Then they began planting news items day after day saying that the arrest of Amitbhai Shah was imminent. Last week, this rumour mongering peaked. On Thursday the CBI sent a summon asking Amit shah to appear on an hour’s notice saying that it wanted to question him as he was aware of the facts relating to the encounter, but at the same time briefed the media that they were about to arrest him. As Amit shah was advised to ask for a day’s time to find out what was the CBI’s real motive, on Friday they again sent summon giving an hour’s time to appear to be examined in the context of offence relating to destruction of evidence and at the same time they had briefed the media that he would be arrested forthwith. As Shah was advised to wait to know whether they wanted to examine him or arrest him, and also move an anticipatory bail, the CBI suddenly filed a charge sheet on Friday charging Amit Shah with murder and conspiracy and leaked out the details of the charges including alleged extortion, and began to send out teams to arrest him. Yesterday Amitbhai Shah had gone to the CBI office and asked to be questioned; but he was not – repeat NOT at all questioned – and was taken to the court where the CBI told the court that it was not interested in examining/interogating him, and asked for judicial custody of Amitbhai. So it is evident that the whole story of examining Amit Shah to know his version was a farce and theatrical, and it was evident that the CBI had decided to arrest him rather than examine him. This itself shows what was the true intent of the CBI action.
Congress Bureau of Intimidation
The CBI, which was entrusted by the hon’ble Supreme Court with the task of investigating the Sohrabuddin encounter death of Soharabuddin and killing of his alleged wife Kausarbi , began to target the Gujarat government from the word go. When the Sohrabuddin case was specifically brought before it, the hon’ble Court had necessarily to resort to the central agency as the state police officials were suspected of involvement. But once it received the mandate, the CBI acted not as the chosen agency of the Supreme Court, but as the instrument of the Congress party and the government at the centre.
One need not labour to emphasise that the CBI had been a tool of the ruling Congress Party since long. Relationship of the concerned political parties with the ruling coalition has been the sole criteria of dealing with cases against politicians. UPA has been using CBI against the political adversaries as a weapon of vendetta, for political friends as a protective umbrella and for those in between as a threat to make them fall in line.
Just take three well-known, almost un-denied, instances of the criminal complicity of the CBI with the Congress: first, the prosecution for the assassination of LN Mra in 1970s [still pending in trial for 36 years] with the media investigation supported by Jagannath Mra, the brother LN Mra, pointing to the fact that the CBI has suppressed the larger conspiracy, shielded the real culprits and charged the innocent with the crime; second, the infamous Bofors case in 1990s involving Rajiv Gandhi and Quattrocchi in which the Congress President Sonia Gandhi was suspected to be protecting Quattrocchi who was deliberately allowed by the CBI to escape India first and then again deliberately allowed by the CBI to smuggle away the bribe money kept frozen by India; and third, the latest cases involving opposition leaders in UP and Jharkhand where the Congress party shamelessly used the CBI to procure votes for its survival in Parliament. The congress party has always used the CBI against political opponents, some recent examples of which are the politically motivated handling of cases against Mulayam Singh Yadav, Mayavati and Jayalalithaa. Is any further proof needed to say that CBI had always been virtually a political instrument of the Congress party?
Gujarat Government is the Target
That the Sohrabuddin encounter investigation by the CBI was to target the BJP and to keep the Congress out is evident from the fact even though the Andhra Pradesh government led by YS Rajasekhara Reddy was equally involved in the arrest and encounter death of Sohrabuddin, the CBI has completely left out the AP government from the radar despite the fact the fact that the Supreme Court had specifically observed that the identity of the seven police personnel of Andhra Pradesh who had accompanied Sohrabuddin was not known in the probe conducted by the Gujarat government and that was one of the reasons for the Supreme Court handing over the matter to the CBI. The CBI has not bothered to interrogate the Andhra Pradesh government or its police officials at all. What other proof is needed to show that the CBI did only what the Congress would have like it to do.
Let it be brought to the fore as to who exactly was Sohrabuddin. He was not only a criminal; he was a terrorist. He was part of the D-Gang in Gujarat. He had confessed to Court about his terrorist links. There were 21 serious criminal cases pending against him in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan – 2 offences under TADA, 9 offences under Arms and Explosives Act, 1 offence under the Customs Act, and 20 offences under the Penal Code. From his farmhouse 24 AK 56 rifles, 27 hand grenades, 5250 cartridges, and 81 magazines were seized the Gujarat police. Yet, this terrorist was being described as a ‘businessman’ in couple of media reports! Since charging any one with encounter death of such a criminal may not arouse sympathy, the CBI has gone about fabricating stories of extortion by the Gujarat police officials in collusion with Amitbhai Shah so as to give the impression that it was not an action against terrorists, but an operation for money! For this purpose the CBI seems to rely on the evidence of land grabbers and criminals who had been arrested, prosecuted and thrown in jail by Amitbhai Shah himself. Would they not be willing witnesses to the CBI against Amit Shah? The CBI has invented and fabricated the charge of extortion by the Minister and the police officials to obfuscate the truth that it was an action against a hardened terrorist.
What about Encounters elsewhere?
Now take the encounter killings as a national issue. According to data provided by the National Human Rights Commission [NHRC] there were 712 instances of alleged encounter killings in the country from 2002-3 to 2006-7. Out of this the number of the alleged encounter killing in Gujarat was 17 – nil in the year 2002, 2 in the year 2003, 4 in the year 2004, 6 in the year 2005, 4 in the year 2006 and nil in the year 2007. The NHRC report also mentions that out of the 440 cases of encounters pending with the NHRC as on 31 March 2006, only 5 – just 5 – related to Gujarat. The balance is accounted for by UP [231] Rajasthan [33] Maharashtra [30] Andhra Pradesh [22] Assam [12] amongst others. Yet only the encounters in Gujarat are being highlighted and are under investigation by the CBI. If every encounter killing is suspect, then there must be an overall national policy on how to handle encounter killing. The NHRC exists for this purpose. But it is difficult to understand why only the Gujarat government is chosen for a different, hostile treatment by some of the human rights activists and by the central government. The very interests which want the Sohrabuddin--case accused to be puned, are fighting cases to get reprieve for terrorists – be they Afzal Guru who attacked the Parliament or the accused in Rajiv Gandhi case. We believe that it is high time we evolve a national debate on how to handle encounter killings in various parts of the country.
Ishrat Jehan Case
The startling facts disclosed by David Coleman Headly about rat Jehan, who was killed in encounter by the Gujarat police, clearly proves what the motives of the central government and the human right activists who are targeting the Gujarat government in several cases and also in the Sohrabuddin case. rat Jehan was killed in an encounter in Gujarat along with three others including two Pakistanis suspected to be LeT terrorists. Now doubts are being cast on the encounter and CBI investigation is being demanded. The very conduct of the central government in this case bears testimony to what its intentions are in the Sohrabuddin. First the central government filed affidavits saying that Jehan and her accomplices were LeT suspects; the LeT hasd also owned up celebrated Jehan as the first LeT lady Jihadi; when the demand for CBI probe against Gujarat police into the killing was made, the LeT suddenly disowned Jehan as a Jihadi, and forthwith, acting in tandem with the LeT, the central government filed affidavit in the Supreme Court disowning its earlier version that she was a terrorist. This donest and anti-national volte-face by the central government in partnership with the LeT was to facilitate a CBI probe into the encounter to do a Sohrabuddin case-like probe on the killing of and her terrorist accomplices against Gujarat government! Now come the anti-climax. Headley, who is one of the principal suspects in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack and later on in Pune, spilled the beans saying that rat was indeed an LeT recruit. The central government has got mud and egg on its face. Its attempt along with the LeT to protect the terrorists in the rat case has boomeranged on its because of the Headley confession.
Even without these specifics, in the absence of a national policy on encounter killing, singling out Gujarat encounter speaks for itself. The BJP demands that there has to be a national policy on encounter killing which will clearly spell out the norms for encounters as well as probe into them, as otherwise the officials will stop acting against terrorists even if they need to, which will put the nation at risk.
The BJP has an apprehension that Amitbhai’s arrest is not the end of the story. There are stories again floated by the CBI, which shows that it has further agenda against more BJP leaders; the CBI seems to be planning to involve some BJP leaders in Rajasthan and also target Narendra Modi himself who, Congress knows, cannot be defeated in a democratic elections. The terrorist Sohrabuddin was made into a national hero by the Congress in the Assembly elections in Gujarat and Narendra Modi was also abused as ‘Maut - ka Saudhagar’. The people of Gujarat gave a fitting response to the treacherous falsehood. Now the Congress it taking revenge on Gujarat and Narendra Modi by employing the CBI in a desperate attempt to prove the false charges it had made against Narendra Modi in the last elections.
The BJP will face the legal challenge presented by the fabricated prosecution in court of law. I declare that the BJP also accepts the political challenge thrown by the Congress and will take the issue to the people of India. I hold the Congress party responsible for creating this hostility between the government and the principal opposition party for promoting its vote bank politics on the eve of the polls in state of Bihar. The BJP is sure that the Congress game will fail and its nefarious designs will be exposed before the people of India
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