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Take cognisance of expose: Zakia Jafri

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AHMEDABAD: Zakia Jafri, wife of the former Congress member of Parliament, Ehsan Jafri, has filed an affidavit in the Gujarat High Court pleading for taking cognisance of the Tehelka exposé before deciding on her petition against Chief Minister Narendra Modi and 62 others.

Ehsan Jafri was among those who were burnt alive in the Gulberg Society carnage during the 2002 communal riots.

Her petition, hearing on which was completed earlier this month, sought the Court’s direction to the police to file a complaint against Mr. Modi and 62 others for the Gulberg Society massacre.

In her new petition in the wake of the telecast of ‘Operation Kalank,’ she pointed out how some of the perpetrators boasted on the Tehelka tapes about the brutality in chopping off Mr. Jafri’s hands and legs before burning him along with others, and the alleged involvement of Mr. Modi and others in the crime.

Meanwhile, the former Ahmedabad Police Commissioner, J. Mahapatra, sent a letter to the Election Commission asking for the reasons for its order to transfer him “to ensure free and fair elections.” Mr. Mahapatra was among the eight administrative and police officers, including the then State Director-General of Police, P.C. Pandey, who were removed for their alleged close links with the Modi administration.

Mr. Mahapatra claimed that his appointment as the Ahmedabad Police Commissioner in December last year had nothing to do with his “links” with the Modi administration. It was because the government thought him to be “fit for the post” due to his “integrity.”

Pointing out that he had not allowed communal tension to surface in Ahmedabad ever since he took over as the Police Commissioner and, instead, had acted sternly against trouble-makers, he said he was both surprised and shocked at the EC’s order, which had caused a big damage to his reputation.

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