By TCN News,
New Delhi: The Social Democratic Party of India, (SDPI), has deplored the pressure being built up by the Intelligence Bureau, (IB), top ups to bail out their Special Director Rajender Kumar around whom the CBI, (Central Bureau of Investigation), noose is tightening of being involved in the conspiracy of liquidating Ishrat Jahan and her accomplices, in a fake encounter near Ahmadabad on June 15, 2004.
SDPI national president A. Sayeed in a statement termed it as shameful of the reported running of IB Director to complain to the Prime Minister Office, (PMO), following the summons issued to IB Special Director Rajendra Kumar by the CBI while relying on the familiar old story of ‘investigation will hit the morale of the IB’. Similarly, the way Union Home Secretary is reportedly trying to mediate between CBI and IB in order to save IB officials involved in Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case in the name of upholding the moral of the intelligence agencies is deplorable. It only goes to prove the connivance of state machinery in terror attacks and witch hunting of Muslim youths. It seems as though a blanket immunity from any scrutiny and accountability is the only guarantee of IB morale, he said.
The statement said that the CBI director Ranjit Sinha has reportedly claimed that the agency has sufficient evidence against Intelligence Bureau special director Rajendra Kumar for his alleged involvement in the 2004 fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan and four others, who were said to be involved in an assassination attempt on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
Sayeed lamented that after not getting positive response from the PMO the IB has enlisted the support of discredited ‘journalists’ to plant stories to dispel theories of involvement of Rajender Kumar in the fake encounter. The IB using the pliant sections of the media has got the 24-hour news channel “Headlines Today” aired tapes of telephone conversations between alleged key operatives involved in the supposed assassination plot to eliminate Narendra Modi. The tapes have not been authenticated and the timing of revelations are also questionable, he charged.
Sayeed wondered as to why are these tapes have been leaked to the press selectively now when investigators are closing in on Rajender Kumar; why have these tapes not been placed before magistrate Tamang whose enquiry in 2009 concluded that Ishrat and others were killed in cold blood and as to why were the tapes not placed before the SIT in 2011, which similarly reached the conclusion that the encounter had been staged?
He said that the IB cannot hide behind its flagging morale and continue to remain unaccountable to the Indian people. It cannot pretend to be above the law of the land and try to scuttle the interrogation of the Special Director IB. It must be answerable to these questions.
Meanwhile, Sayeed said the State is knowingly prosecuting the innocent Muslim youths on terror charges. Some investigative journalists worth their salt have unearthed internal documents from more than half a dozen anti-terror agencies that show that the State has been knowingly prosecuting innocent Muslims for terror cases and keeping away the evidence of their innocence from the courts and these youths are languishing in jails for years.
He said that such cases against innocent Muslim youth are not isolated one but it has become a general trend nowadays. It is whose agenda against these Muslim youths, Sayeed said.
