Gujarat riots panel questions cops on lost records

Gandhinagar, July 06: The Nanavaty-Mehta judicial inquiry commission probing the 2002 Gujarat communal riots Wednesday directed the state intelligence bureau to come clean within 10 days on the destruction of records pertaining to the carnage.

The commission said it would pass appropriate orders after the report is submitted.

The probe panel asked the additional director general of police of the state intelligence bureau to place on record as to which documents were available with it and which were not.

Jan Sangharsh Manch, an NGO representing some of the victims of 2002 riots, moved an application before the panel seeking various directions to the government in connection with the documents that it claimed had been destroyed.

The NGO has also urged the panel to direct the government to give the name of the officer who ordered destruction of the documents and the reasons for ordering so.

—IANS