Senior officer in the central Intelligence Bureau, Rajendra Kumar, has been named as an accused in the fresh complaint submitted to the Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) on Saturday by Sabbir Mehtar in the Sadik Jamal encounter case.
Sabbir is the brother of Sadik who was gunned down by DCB sleuths in an encounter in 2003. Kumar, who is currently posted in Delhi, was posted in Gandhinagar as joint director, IB (Gujarat), when the encounter took place.
Sabbir has named Kumar as a key accused in the fresh FIR submitted by him in the Sadik Jamal case. He has further alleged that the senior IB officer had fed false intelligence inputs at the behest of some political leaders and had circulated the inputs in Mumbai, Delhi and Gujarat, to get Sadik killed in a fake encounter.
This is the first encounter case in which the IB officer has been named as a key accused,” Sabbir’s lawyer, Mukul Sinha, told DNA on the sidelines of a press conference held by Sabbir on Saturday.
Sinha alleged that Kumar was the police officer who had provided the intelligence inputs which eventually led to the Ishrat Jahan and Sadik Jamal encounters. He further said that in the previous FIR filed by the DCB, police inspector JG Parmar was the complainant.
Parmar had mentioned in that FIR that there was an intelligence input that one Sadik Jamal, an LeT terrorist, was coming to Ahmedabad for a terror operation.
Sabbir, however, claimed that his brother was neither an LeT terrorist nor was he coming to Ahmedabad as he had been detained by police sub-inspector Daya Nayak in Mumbai for many days before being handed over to the Ahmedabad police.
He further alleged during the press conference that his brother was falsely projected as a Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) operative and was killed allegedly to please some political leaders. Sabbir also claimed that Sadik was booked for minor offences twice earlier, once in a rioting case and the other time in a gambling case in Bhavnagar city.
Sabbir has alleged in the FIR that while handing over Sadik’s body to them, IPS officer DG Vanzara had asked them not to complain to anyone in this regard or Sabbir too would be killed in an encounter. “We were too scared to utter even a single word against the police,”
Sabbir said. The DCB, however, has not registered a complaint so far, ostensibly because the agency is yet to receive a copy of the Gujarat high court order directing it to register a fresh FIR in the case.
DCB authorities said the complaint will be registered once the agency receives a copy of the high court order. “We have not yet formally received the order of the high court directing us to register a fresh FIR in the case. However, we have received the complaint from Sabbir Mehtar,” deputy commissioner of police, DCB, Himanshu Shukla said.
Source: DNA
