‘Clean chit’ to Modi: Ex-DGP slams SIT,says may move SC

While Sreekumar’s statement was recorded in connection with Zakia’s petition,the former DGP fears the SIT has not considered his affidavits before accepting the arguments of the accused,including Modi,in the case. “If contents of my affidavits are removed or invalidated or their evidential utility is nullified,the edifice of the Jafri’s complaint will collapse like a pack of cards,” Sreekumar said in the letter.

He said this was serious because Modi and the other accused had attempted to discredit the Centre for Social Justice,led by Teesta Setalvad,who is fighting the legal cases on behalf of riot victims. Meanwhile,at a press conference in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday,the former DGP indicated he might approach the SC on the matter. Reacting to reports that the SIT had found no proof of Modi’s complicity in the 2002 violence,Sreekumar,who was then the state intelligence chief,said the leaked information was “credible”. He alleged the SIT functioned as a “B” team of Gujarat Police. The SIT had submitted its report to SC on Zakia’s allegations that Modi and his close aides aided and abetted the post-Godhra carnage in which her husband was killed.

Referring to WikiLeaks exposure that Lashkar-e-Toiba had planned to assassinate Modi,he said,“Modi is a threatened person.”