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Modi lies: Police Officers effective in Gujarat Riots were moved out due to administrative decisions Modi lies: Police Officers effective in Gujarat Riots were moved out due to administrative decisions<http://www.truthofgujarat.com/modi-lies-police-officers-effective-riots-moved-due-administrative-decisions/> Pratik Sinha <http://www.truthofgujarat.com/author/pratik-sinha/> October 17, 2013 | 1 Response<http://www.truthofgujarat.com/modi-lies-police-officers-effective-riots-moved-due-administrative-decisions/#comments> Modi Lies Series – Lie No 2: In an interview given to TOI<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Peace-has-returned-to-Gujarat-claims-Modi/articleshow/5307572.cms> and also published on Modi’s original website – NarendraModi.com<http://web.archive.org/web/20030501164022/http://www.narendramodi.com/interview19.htm>, this is Modi’s assertion about the abrupt transfers of certain senior police officers who had done good work in controlling the riots. *Q. There are allegations that you have moved out police officers who took a tough stance against the rioters. Please comment.* A. Again, this is a false and misconceived allegation.* The issue of promotions of police officers was long pending and it was purely an administrative decision.* There was absolutely no political motive in the transfers of officers. Those who are indulging in false propaganda are only damaging the morale of the forces. [image: Rahul Sharma and Narendra Modi]<http://www.truthofgujarat.com/modi-lies-police-officers-effective-riots-moved-due-administrative-decisions/rahul-modi/> Rahul Sharma and Narendra Modi Lets take the case of one of the few police officers who took effective measures against the rioters – Rahul Sharma IPS who was transferred to Bhavanagar as DSP on *15th Feb 2002*, just 13 days before Godhra Riots happened. Rahul Sharma with the very limited police force he had at his disposal made sure that the riots did not flare up in Bhavnagar. When Mr Sharma started his investigation of the offences in Bhavanagar after the riots had been controlled, he was promptly transferred out of Bhavanagar on the complaint of the BJP leaders on *24th March 2002* and posted in the DCP Police Control Room at Ahmedabad. Thus it can be seen that Mr Rahul Sharma who was transferred to Bhavanagar exactly 12 days before the Godhra Train Burning incident had to* face another transfer within 38 days* of his previous transfer. No police head of a district is transferred within such a short period unless there are compelling reasons and cannot be dubbed as a routeine transfer. *The transfer was essentially to prevent the effective investigation of the riot cases in Bhavanagar.* After being posted to Police Control, on the direction of the Commissioner of Police Mr PC Pande, Mr Sharma had assisted in the Naroda Patiya investigation. For an effective investigation of a very large scale violence, Mr Sharma had deemed fit to collect the call records of every call made in Ahmedabad during the riot period. Before Mr Sharma could analyze the phone records for effecting any arrests, he was once again transferred out from Ahmedabad on *3rd July 2002* and packed off as an SRPF commandant at a remote placed called Vav. It can therefore been seen that *in the short duration between 15th February 2002 to 3rd July 2002, Mr Sharma was transferred twice*. Those transfers by no stretch of imagination can be deemed as ‘routine transfers’. It was obvious that an officer who was effective in combating the communal violence and was going ahead with the post riots prosecution was removed from his place of work by the Government. In fact these transfers took place without the recommendation of the DGP who is supreme head of the state police. The DGP in fact has gone on record before the Nanavati commission and has admitted to having objected to the transfer of officers as that impeded in the effective control of riots. It therefore shows the malafide intention of the Government in transferring such effective officers and permitting the rioters to go scott-free. Exhibit 5627 Extracts from Cross Examination of DGP K Chakravarti by Mukul Sinha (Translated from Gujarati) It is true that in several districts of Gujarat, due to the police action, many incidents were prevented. Bhavnagar was also one such disrict due to action by the police, not many incidents had occured….. In the month of March of the year 2002, I did not make any recommendations for the transfers. The power to transfer the officers at the level of DSP is with the Government.* But as the transfers were made without my knowledge, I had drawn the attention of the Government in that regard. I had objections to the transfer to the extent that continuity would have been maintained and it would have been easier to control the riots.* If not for Rahul Sharma’s investigation of Naroda Patiya as part of which he collected the call records, today Mayaben Kodnani would not have been behind the bars. Jan Sangharsh Manch analyzed the call records collected by Rahul Sharma, and it was on the basis of JSM’s analysis of Maya Kodnani’s location, it was revealed that she was in Naroda Patiya when the Hindu mobs attacked while Kodnani herself insisted that she wasn’t present in Naroda Patiya. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
