Congress on Sunday expressed shock over the allegations that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s close aide Amit Shah misused his powers and police machinery to monitor the movement of a young woman in 2009.
“We demand an independent enquiry into the incident by a retired Supreme Court Judge,” said Jayanthi Natrajan, a Congress member while addressing a press conference on Sunday.
Expressing shock over the incident, Natrajan questioned the safety of women and asked whether it’s possible for them to walk as free citizens.
The allegations were made at a press conference here along with release of over half-an-hour of tapped telephonic conversations, purportedly between Shah and Gujarat IPS officer GL Singhal, which two investigative portals Cobrapost and Gulail claimed have been submitted before CBI in the Ishrat Jahan murder case.
While the taped conversations that purportedly took place between August and September 2009 do not mention Modi, the BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate by name, the websites said that “listening to the conversations leaves no doubt that the people involved in the operation knew the ‘saheb’,” at whose behest the alleged snooping was being carried out.
—PTI