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Modi
wanted Muslims to be taught a lesson, says top cop
Friday April 22, 2011 03:53:53 PM,
IANS
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Ahmedabad: A senior
police officer from Gujarat, Sanjiv Bhatt, has accused Chief
Minister Narendra Modi of wanting to teach Muslims "a lesson"
after the Godhra train attack in 2002 killed 59 Hindus.
Modi reportedly told senior officials that emotions were running
high among Hindus following the burning of the Sabarmati Express
at Godhra, the Indian Police Service (IPS) officer said in an
affidavit to the Supreme Court.
Most of the dead were Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) activists,
returning to Gujarat from Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh. The train
burning led to communal violence that left at least 1,000 people
dead across Gujarat.
"This time the situation warranted that the Muslims be taught a
lesson to ensure that such incidents do not recur ever again,"
Bhatt quoted the chief minister as saying in his affidavit.
"The chief minister expressed the view that the emotions were
running very high among the Hindus and it was imperative that they
be allowed to vent out their anger."
Modi reportedly made these remarks when a section of officers told
him that bringing the bodies of the train burning victims to
Ahmedabad from Godhra would only inflame passions.
Bhatt, presently principal of the State Reserve Police Centre in
Junagarh, said in the affidavit: "The effects of these directions
given by the chief minister were widely manifest in the half
hearted approach and the evident lack of determination on the part
of the police while dealing with the widespread incidents of
orchestrated violence (from Feb 28, 2002)."
Bhatt was then based in Gandhinagar as deputy commissioner of
intelligence in the State Intelligence Bureau.
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