Ishrat Jahan case: Report vindicates position I took, says Chidambaram

June 16, 2016 09:37

Reacting to The Indian Express report on Thursday on B K Prasad, the home ministry officer heading the Ishrat Jahan missing papers inquiry, tutoring a witness to say he had not seen any of the documents, former Home Minister P Chidambaram said the news report "comprehensively exposes the fake controversy created by the NDA government on the two affidavits filed by the Central government in the Ishrat Jahan case."

The news report published in The Indian Express today comprehensively exposes the fake controversy created by the NDA government on the two affidavits filed by the Central government in the Ishrat Jahan case.

The Indian Express report completely vindicates the position that I had taken on the two affidavits. The first affidavit (August 6 2009) disclosed the intelligence inputs that had been shared by the Central government with the State government. Judge Tamang in his report (September 7 2009) found that Ishrat Jahan and three others had been killed in a fake encounter. The report caused an uproar in Gujarat and elsewhere. The first affidavit was misinterpreted and misused to defend the encounter. It was, therefore, necessary to clarify the first affidavit. Hence, a further affidavit was filed (September 29 2009) clarifying that intelligence inputs do not constitute conclusive proof and it is for the State government and the State police to act on such inputs.

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