Bhatt pays in kind: Threats won’t work,will tell all I know

In his reply to the DGP’s notice,Sanjiv Bhatt has said he is determined to put forth all the information he has about the burning of Sabarmati Express at Godhra on February 27,2002 and its aftermath before the state government-appointed Nanavati-Akshay Mehta Commission.

“This display of unprofessional pettiness and insinuations of vindictive persecution will not deter me,” Bhatt’s reply to the DGP on Sunday evening said. Bhatt,still at his family home in Ahmedabad with a lone constable for security,said,“I will make it clear to the Commission that I intend to part with the information. If they do not question me about it,it will be then put on record,” Bhatt said in his reply.

Bhatt also disputed DGP’s observation that he was on “unauthorised leave”,saying he was doing paper work ahead of preparing to depose before the Commission. Terming the steps taken by the DGP as “coercive measures that undermine and jeopardise my safety and security of my family”,Bhatt requested the DGP to not create hindrances in his deposition before the Nanavati Commission. ENS