ROGUE COP FINDS IT ‘ MANLY’ TO BE IN JAIL

FIVE years of incarceration and a post graduation diploma in value education and spirituality seem to have truly bolstered the conviction of the alleged killer cop of Gujarat — D. G. Vanzara. In the process, he has developed a new definition of manhood. The trigger happy cop — who landed behind bars for his alleged role in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case and is now a suspect in the murder of Mumbra- based teenager Ishrat Jahan and three others — said that people land up behind bars after doing something worthy of a ‘ man’. Vanzara was delivering a speech at Sabarmati Jail during the convocation where he, along with SIMI ideologue Safdar Nagori, were awarded their PG diploma in “ value education and spirituality” by the Annamalai University.

“ We are here as we have done something manly ( mardonwali),” Vanzara said, adding that a ‘ complete’ man is he who is happy in any condition — whether in jail or in a palace. While he also spoke on meditation and spiritual aspects of life, his definition of being ‘ manly’ made it clear that the IPS officer sees valour in killing unarmed women and doesn’t shy away from wearing his pride in his sleeves.

Gujarat shows proof it gave call records

New Delhi: The Sohrabuddin encounter case threw up a new twist on Wednesday with the Gujarat government producing in SC a 15-page list signed by a CBI SP acknowledging receipt of documents, including some call record CDs, after the probe was transferred from state police.

On Thursday, the court had rapped the Narendra Modi government for not handing over crucial mobile phone call records of accused ex-cop D G Vanzara and others to CBI and directed the state to provide the details by December 7.

Producing the records, Gujarat additional advocate general Tushar Mehta said, “If the CBI now says it has not received the call records, let the CBI officer file an affidavit detailing which documents he did not get.”

A bench of Justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana P Desai asked Mehta to hand over the memo to CBI for verification.

Botching up the Sohrabuddin Probe

TOI
AHMEDABAD
21AUG2011

Excerpts from Rajnish Rai's submission before the Central Administrative Tribunal, Ahmedabad

Sohrabuddin was killed in a police encounter in Ahmedabad on 26/11/2005 by a police team comprising officers of ATS, Gujarat and Rajasthan Police. Thereafter, his brother and his mother had moved the Hon'ble Supreme Court about the killing of Sohrabuddin and disappearance of his wife Kauserbi. The Hon'ble Supreme Court had on 21/01/2006 directed the DGP P C Pande to cause inquiry into the killing of Sohrabuddin and disappearance of his wife Kauserbi. Although the order was served upon DGP Pande, for 6 months he did not take any action. This disregard is apparent from the fact that the SC registrar had sent three reminders at an interval of three months seeking compliance of the directive. Following the third reminder, DGP Pande had ordered an enquiry in the matter by CID (Crime). The preliminary enquiry (PE) by CID (Crime) prima facie disclosed that the encounter of Sohrabuddin was not genuine, and it was a cold blooded murder. The inquiry, however, could not say anything about the whereabouts of Kauserbi, and concluded it by saying that she was missing.

DGP was defying SC
The PE was dragged on for more than 9 months before further investigation were finally entrusted to CID (Crime) u/s 173 (8) CrPC in the first week of March, 2007. The admission of commission of a cognizable offence was reported to the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the Interim Report dated 07/12/2006 of Geetha Johri, then IGP, CID (Crime). At least at this stage a criminal offence against the suspected accused senior police officers should have been registered. But the DGP, whose duty it was in his capacity as DGP, did not get that done. In this fashion, the DGP was disobeying the direction of law for delaying action in a heinous crime by senior police officers.

Amit was influencing DGP
DGP Pande played highly dubious and acquiescent role to the criminal conspiracy of Amit Shah, then MoS (Home) and others who were instrumental in tampering with official records pertaining to Sohrabuddin case in the office of CID (Crime) for the express purpose of hiding their role in obstructing the much needed visit of the enquiry officer to Udaipur, Rajasthan for recording the statement of a key witness named Tulsiram Prajapati. Most importantly, this delay was used by the concerned accused police officers to kill Prajapati in another fake encounter on 28/12/2006. The dubious role of DGP Pande in not preventing the tampering of records despite knowing that Amit Shah, then MoS (Home) had directed the supervisory officer to do so in his presence reasonably indicates the complicity of DGP Pande in the conspiracy to murder Prajapati with the motive of not bringing on record the testimony of a key witness. These facts have been disclosed by the witnesses, including the enquiry officer VL Solanki, then PI in CID (Crime), and RV Acharya, PA to IGP, CID (Crime) during the investigation of Sohrabuddin case by the CBI.

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