NEW DELHI: A former officer of the Indian home ministry has disclosed that a member of the secret service team had accused incumbent governments of ‘orchestrating’ the terror attack on the Indian parliament and the 26/11 carnage in Mumbai.
Former Indian investigator Satish Verma has said that India itself was behind the attack on parliament in Delhi and the Mumbai terror attacks.According to the Indian media‚ in the fake encounter case involving Ishrat Jahan, a senior officer, the Under-Secretary of the Interior Ministry, has submitted an affidavit in the court stating that a member of the CBI and SIC investigation team, Satish Verma, told him that the terrorist attack on parliament in New Delhi and the Mumbai terror attacks were pre-planned.
A key government official R V S Mani said that Satish Verma, until recently a part of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe team, told him that both the terror attacks were set up “with the objective of strengthening the counter-terror legislation (sic).”
Mani has said that Verma narrated that the December 13, 2001 (attack on parliament) was followed by the Prevention of Terrorist Activities Act (Pota) and November 26, 2008 (terrorists’ siege of Mumbai) was followed by an amendment to the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).
The official has alleged that Verma levelled the damaging charge while debunking the IB’s inputs labelling the three killed with Ishrat in the June 2004 encounter as Lashkar terrorists.Contacted by the Times of India, Verma refused to comment. “I don’t know what the complaint is, made when and to whom. Nor am I interested in knowing. I cannot speak to the media on such matters. Ask the CBI,” said the Gujarat cadre IPS officer who after being relieved from the SIT is working as the principal of the Junagadh Police Training College. The attacks were launched to strengthen the anti-terrorism laws.
It may be recalled that India had accused Pakistan of its involvement in both of the attacks and started a propaganda campaign maligning Pakistan-based organisations and its agencies for the attacks. Afzal Guru and Ajmal Kasab have already been hanged by the Indian government in parliament and 26/11 cases respectively.
NEW DELHI: A member of a Special Investigating Team (SIT) of
India's Central Bureau of Investigation had accused incumbent
governments of "orchestrating" the terror attack on Indian Parliament
and the 2008 Mumbai attacks, The Times of India reported on Sunday.
A former Indian home ministry officer submitted his declaration in the Supreme Court of India which said that he was told by a former member of the CBI-SIT team that both the terror attacks (Parliament and Mumbai) were staged "with the objective of strengthening the counter-terror legislation(sic)."
The affidavit also included reference to the attack on the Indian parliament in December 2001 which was followed by the controversial Prevention of Terrorism Act (Pota), and the 2008 Mumbai attacks which led to amendments in the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).
The revelations came during a hearing in the Indian Supreme Court regarding the killing of a 19-year-old Indian Muslim girl in India's Gujrat state in June 2004.
Indian police had claimed that Ishrat Jahan and three Muslim men, two of them alleged to be Pakistanis, were killed as they set off with a stash of arms and explosives to kill Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
The murder plot was refuted by the victim's mother who had called for an investigation to take place on a federal level.
A former Indian home ministry officer submitted his declaration in the Supreme Court of India which said that he was told by a former member of the CBI-SIT team that both the terror attacks (Parliament and Mumbai) were staged "with the objective of strengthening the counter-terror legislation(sic)."
The affidavit also included reference to the attack on the Indian parliament in December 2001 which was followed by the controversial Prevention of Terrorism Act (Pota), and the 2008 Mumbai attacks which led to amendments in the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).
The revelations came during a hearing in the Indian Supreme Court regarding the killing of a 19-year-old Indian Muslim girl in India's Gujrat state in June 2004.
Indian police had claimed that Ishrat Jahan and three Muslim men, two of them alleged to be Pakistanis, were killed as they set off with a stash of arms and explosives to kill Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
The murder plot was refuted by the victim's mother who had called for an investigation to take place on a federal level.
Sources: thenews.com.pk
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