Sreekumar tells STF to probe revelations made by Vanzara

Sreekumar,who has marked a copy of the letter to the CBI director,has added that the repeated ‘breach of trust’ alleged by Vanzara in his resignation letter prompts a probe into what the “trust” actually was between Narendra Modi-led state government and Vanzara.

Sreekumar’s letter says,“Vanzara has written that he and his officers are ‘loyal soldiers of this (Gujarat) government… (who) fought incessant war against Pakistan inspired terrorism’. Vanzara should be asked to provide data on specific actions,operations,and projects launched by his team as part of counter-terrorist campaigns and the net result of multifarious police endeavors against terrorism.” Sreekumar adds that Vanzara should be asked whether these ‘operations’ were carried out as per the procedure of law?

According to the letter,Vanzara claimed,he felt betrayed that the state government did not help jailed police officers. What kind of help was the government supposed to offer and didn’t Vanzara know that such an act by persons or administration would be treated as punishable under the Indian Penal Code,Sreekumar has asked in his letter.

He has raised some pertinent questions regarding Shah. “The CBI and STF must probe what were the political intrigues,machinations and manoeuvrings of Shah in Sohrabuddin and Tulsiram encounter cases for getting the trials transferred out of Gujarat? What are the specific acts of Shah in completely mismanaging a sensitive department like police and what are the instances where Shah has played the divide and rule politics to use Gujarat Police officers and then throw them?”

Sreekumar has asked: “Does the extra judicial confession by Vanzara that police officers performed their duties in compliance with the conscious policy of this government indicate that fake encounters were planned,organised,and perpetrated on innocent persons in pursuit of state government’s policy of organising extra judicial killings?…I have also requested the CBI to record Vanzara’s statements under Section 164 of the CrPc and get all details on how intelligence inputs were arrived at,under which political bosses the encounters were carried out and what was the cover up after the arrests of the cops in these encounter cases.”

The officer has also requested the STF to summon Modi,Shah,chief secretaries of relevant period and those incharge of state Home department,former DGP K Chakravarti,A K Bhargava and P C Pande,former ADGP (Intelligence) J Mahapatra and former Ahmedabad police commissioner K R Kaushik.