The state filed an affidavit in the High Court in the wake of the National Human Rights Commission’s report on the post-poll unrest in the state. The government made explosive allegations in that affidavit. The BJP members complained about the closeness of the committee members. How can that report be neutral? The state raised questions in the affidavit.
State Home Secretary BP Gopalika filed an affidavit in the court dismissing all the allegations made by the committee against the state. The affidavit alleges on behalf of the state that there is a political motive behind the report of the committee headed by the National Human Rights Commission. Deliberately negative reports have been made against the state. Some of the committee members are close to the BJP. The Centre has an effect on them. An impartial investigation cannot be expected from them. In that case, mentioning the names of several members of the committee, the addition of BJP has been brought to the fore. Rajiv Jain has been named as the director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) during the BJP government. Even when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat, he was the head of the Ahmedabad Intelligence Bureau. Atif Rashid is said to be in charge of the BJP’s Twitter handle. He even fought for the BJP in the Delhi polls.
According to the affidavit, Rajulben Desai was in charge of the BJP’s ‘Save Betty, Read Betty’ project in Gujarat in 2016. The state alleges that the report was completely politically motivated. The 3427-page report is based on conjecture without any evidence. Where multiple political leaders have been called criminals. But on the basis of which this claim has been made, no evidence has been mentioned.
This is not the end, the state has also questioned the power of the committee in the affidavit. In that case, the committee was only asked to look into it. The committee cannot make any recommendations. Here the committee has recommended an inquiry by the CBI. Which is out of the jurisdiction. The report of the committee headed by the commissioner alleged that the state infrastructure was responsible for the post-vote unrest. The state has dismissed that allegation. On the contrary, the report is meant to discredit the state, the police and the administration. Since the announcement of the results, the state police and administration have taken all possible steps to deal with the unrest.
