Shinde: Centre may order probe into snooping row

A Commission of Inquiry will have independence as well as adequate powers to seek official documents and call people for questioning,sources said.

Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde hinted at the government ordering a Commission of Inquiry into alleged snooping on a woman in Gujarat allegedly at the behest of BJP leader Amit Shah,even as the ministry sought opinion of the law ministry on sending a Presidential reference to the Supreme Court to probe into allegations against Justice (retd) A K Ganguly for his removal as chairman of the West Bengal Human Rights Commission.

Speaking on possibility of setting up a Commission,Shinde said several organisations working for women and NGOs had given representations to President Pranab Mukherjee demanding a probe into the alleged snooping.

My department is examining them. There are some formalities that have to be completed. It should not happen or look as if we are taking a haphazard decision against a party. Hence,our department is going into details and once that is done,very soon we will take a decision, he said.

A Commission of Inquiry will have independence as well as adequate powers to seek official documents and call people for questioning,sources said.

A probe by such a Commission is considered more credible than a normal police probe. Two news portals,Cobrapost and Gulail,had claimed on November 15 that Amit Shah ordered illegal surveillance on a woman in Gujarat at the behest of one saheb.

They released taped conversation purportedly between former Home Minister Amit Shah and IPS officer G L Singhal to support their claim but said the authenticity of the tape could not be confirmed.

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