Details of calls made to Modi during riots given to SIT

Ahmedabad, June 18: An NGO has submitted a detailed phone call analysis report to the SIT claiming that former Gujarat ministers — Maya Kodnani and Gordhan Zadaphia, VHP leader Dr Jaidip Patel, and others had called up Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s office several times during the post-Godhra communal riots.

Both Patel and Kodnani are accused in the Naroda Patia and Naroda village massacre cases, but presently are out on bail.

“As per the analysis of the call details from February 27 to March 4, 2002, Jaidip Patel had called the CMO nine times, Kodnani had called up four times, Zadaphia had called up 13 times, additional CP of Ahmedabad had called up four times, a Deputy Commissioner R.J. Sawani had called up twice,” advocate Mukul Sinha of the NGO ‘Jan Sangarsh Manch’ told reporters here on Thursday.

The call records analysis is based on the CD submitted by IPS officer Rahul Sharma, who had prepared it when he was posted in the Ahmedabad police control room.

–PTI–