Ahmedabad, April 29: More trouble is brewing for Gujarat’s IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt who has approached the Supreme Court with his controversial claim that Chief Minister Narendra Modi had instructed policemen to ‘allow Hindus to vent their anger’ after 58 kar sewaks were killed in the train inferno at Godhra on Feb 27, 2002.
The Nanavati Commission probing the Godhra train fire and the riots thereafter has already summoned Bhatt to testify before it on May 16, while a hearing on his affidavit is pending in the Supreme Court.
It is still not known whether the apex court would take cognisance of his affidavit filed earlier this month, but the Pali Bar Association in Rajasthan is mulling the idea of approaching the Supreme Court to make itself a party in the matter.
Bhatt’s Pali connection dates back to 1996 when a lawyer from this Rajasthan town, Sumer Singh was framed by him in a false narcotics case at the behest of a judge RR Jain whose sister was the owner of a shop occupied by the lawyer.
Though Sumer Singh not only secured justice from the apex court but also a compensation of Rs One lakh was ordered to him by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), the feeling of humiliation and injustice is still simmering among the lawyers in Pali district of Rajasthan.
Thus, the Pali Bar Association is now considering the possibility of becoming a party in the case and expose Bhatt in the apex court, a source in Rajasthan said.
“We may soon call a meeting of the Bar Association and pass a resolution to decide on the matter of becoming a party to the case in the Supreme Court”, Pushp Jain, former president of Pali Bar Association told The Pioneer on phone from Pali in Rajasthan.
–Agencies–