AHMEDABAD: The Godhra inquiry commission on Wednesday stalled the cross-examination of IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in connection with his affidavit filed before the Supreme Court.
Sanjiv Bhatt, a 1988-batch IPS officer and head of the State Reserve Police Training Centre at Junagadh, in his affidavit said that during a meeting on February 27, 2002, Narendra Modi issued instructions that Hindus be allowed to express their anger and that Muslims be taught a befitting lesson so that incidents such as the Sabarmati train burning, which occurred earlier that day, are never repeated.
The Godhra inquiry commission on Wednesday stopped the proceedings till June 8 on the basis of an application filed by Jamiat-Ulema-e-Hind objecting that Bhatt could not be questioned, since he had not administered oath.
At the time of the riots, Bhatt, an IIT-Mumbai graduate, served as the deputy commissioner of intelligence in the State Intelligence Bureau in Gandhinagar. Bhatt becomes the second IPS officer to make these allegations in an affidavit to the Supreme Court, after the former Gujarat Director General of Police, R B Sreekumar.
Sanjiv Bhatt, a 1988-batch IPS officer and head of the State Reserve Police Training Centre at Junagadh, in his affidavit said that during a meeting on February 27, 2002, Narendra Modi issued instructions that Hindus be allowed to express their anger and that Muslims be taught a befitting lesson so that incidents such as the Sabarmati train burning, which occurred earlier that day, are never repeated.
The Godhra inquiry commission on Wednesday stopped the proceedings till June 8 on the basis of an application filed by Jamiat-Ulema-e-Hind objecting that Bhatt could not be questioned, since he had not administered oath.
At the time of the riots, Bhatt, an IIT-Mumbai graduate, served as the deputy commissioner of intelligence in the State Intelligence Bureau in Gandhinagar. Bhatt becomes the second IPS officer to make these allegations in an affidavit to the Supreme Court, after the former Gujarat Director General of Police, R B Sreekumar.
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