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 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 in Ahmedabad 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.
In an application filed by victims before SIT on this issue, they contended that the investigation officer of Naroda Patia case had not made proper analysis of the phone call records, which shows the accused police officials and some VHP leaders in constant touch with each other, Sinha said.
"We have demanded further investigations into these two massacre cases and the role of top police officials including the then Ahmedabad Police Commissioner P C Pande, Additional Police Commissioner M K Tandon, Deputy Commissioner of Police P B Gondiya and Police Inspector K K Mysorewala," he added.
On the analysis of the phone calls made on February 28, 2002 it was revealed that when the mob started gathering at Gulberg Society, both these officers Tandon and Gondia, moved aways from Gulberg society and gave a free hand to rioters, which killed over 70 people including former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, Sinha said.
"It appears that a phone call made by R J Sawani, a Deputy Commissioner, at 12:09 pm seem to have prompted Tandon to move away his striking force from Gulberg Society and further analysis of Sawani’s phone calls reveal that he was in constant touch with Zadafia and Patel," Sinha said.
He added that a deeper probe by the SIT would reveal whether the purpose of all these calls.
Source: Indian Express
