Ishrat Jahan case feeble attempt to implicate Gujarat leaders: Jaitley
February 07, 2014 17:28
"When the alleged encounter of Ishrat Jehan and her associates took place, the UPA-I was already in power.
"In a public interest litigation filed in the Gujarat High Court by her parents, the Union government took a categorical stand that Ishrat was a LeT operative and the alleged encounter of June 15, 2004 was genuine.
"This was when Shri Shivraj Patil was the Home Minister. The change in the Home Ministry led a change in Government's stand. Under Shri P. Chidambaram as the new Home Minister, the Home Ministry in its affidavit decides to wash its hands off from the encounter.
"It now starts cooperating with the petitioner for probing the entire operation. The political establishment had hoped that its other attempts having failed, probing this could be a case for implication of the political leaders of the Gujarat government."
That's Arun Jaitley on the Ishrat Jehan case. Read
"In a public interest litigation filed in the Gujarat High Court by her parents, the Union government took a categorical stand that Ishrat was a LeT operative and the alleged encounter of June 15, 2004 was genuine.
"This was when Shri Shivraj Patil was the Home Minister. The change in the Home Ministry led a change in Government's stand. Under Shri P. Chidambaram as the new Home Minister, the Home Ministry in its affidavit decides to wash its hands off from the encounter.
"It now starts cooperating with the petitioner for probing the entire operation. The political establishment had hoped that its other attempts having failed, probing this could be a case for implication of the political leaders of the Gujarat government."
That's Arun Jaitley on the Ishrat Jehan case. Read
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