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Maharashtra spares cop for Gujarat riots probe
Wednesday, September 01, 2010 01:25:03 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
The Supreme Court was told by the Maharashtra government Tuesday
that it was making its senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer
K. Venkateshan available to the Special Investigating Team (SIT)
probing the 2002 post-Godhra riot cases.
The court was told that the state government has already written
to the union home ministry about it.
An apex court bench of Justice D.K. Jain, Justice P. Sathasivam
and Justice Aftab Alam was told that Venkateshan would be relieved
shortly.
When the court asked if relieving Venkateshan could be expedited
within a week, state government counsel Sanjay Kardia said that
the officer would be available to SIT within the said period.
Venkateshan is currently posted as inspector general of police (IGP)
in the Office of Maharashtra police chief.
The SIT is an apex court appointed investigating team that probing
the Godhra and post-Godhra riot cases. It needed two senior
ranking officers after Gujarat cadre IPS officers Geetha Johri and
Shivanand Jha were moved out of the probe panel by the apex court.
A senior Assam cadre IPS officer Y.K. Modi has already joined the
SIT.
During the course of the last hearing of the matter, the SIT
chairman and former CBI director R.K. Raghavan told the court that
Maharashtra government was not willing to release Venkateshan for
the SIT.
Thereafter, the apex court issued notice to the Maharashtra
government on this issue.
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