New Delhi: It seems that while there is hundreds of unsolved case piled in the country the Gujarat Police the State Intelligence Bureau, the Crime Branch and the Anti-Terrorist Squad have all the time to stalk a girl on the oral request of former minister of state for home Amit Shah.
Amit Shah, who is also a close aide of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s was accused of misusing his powers and police machinery for illegal surveillance of a young woman in 2009, who was neither wanted or a under any police records.
The allegations were made by two investigative portals Cobrapost and Gulail, at a press conference on Friday November 15. They claimed to have a 50 minutes tapped telephonic conversation, between Shah and Gujarat IPS officer G L Singhal.
The tapes were submitted before CBI during the Ishrat Jahan murder case however, both the websites by no means have verified these charges. The conversation took place between August and September 2009 although do not mention Modi, the BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate by name.
Furthermore to it the website claims that if the conversation is heard, Modi is been referred as ‘Saheb’ and significantly knew about the operation.
The girl’s father, however, said in a statement that his daughter, who was based in Bangalore, had come to Ahmedabad when her mother was to undergo a surgery. She was required to commute at odd hours between the hospital and a nearby hotel which was a matter of concern to him. But he was unaware that his daughter is being stalked and the incident has come as a shock to him.
Although he had orally requested Modi to take care of her but never thought that it would be till this extent. The BJP sources have not reacted as of yet. Social activist and former NAC (National Advisory Council) member Aruna Roy, lawyer and activist Prashant Bhushan and former Navy Chief Admiral (Retired) L Ramdas, and other where present for the press conference.
Congress spokesperson Meem Afzal questioned, why does Modi and Amit Shah “so much interested” in the woman?
As per the websites it is learnt the police followed her inside malls, restaurants, gyms, airport, flights and even when she visited relatives and went to see her mother at a hospital.
Singhal, who is an accused in the Ishrat Jahan case and is out on bail, apparently handed over hundreds of recorded telephonic conversations to the CBI to try to show how three key wings of It was claimed that the surveillance-cum-phone interception operation which was carried out on oral orders, without any valid legal authorization.
Whether the claims are to be true, or is it just a counter play is yet to be investigated.
