Threats to the former DGP Gujarat RB Sreekumar

Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 11:48 PM

Restoration of the 24 hour police protection insisted 

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The Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) through its secretary, Teesta Setalvad has approached the NHRC for restoration of the 24 hour police protection given to former DGP Gujarat RB Sreekumar since October 2007. Sreekumar a key witness in the Zakia Jafri case faces serious threat from a vindictive state government against whom he has taken a clear and principled stand on ethics and governance. CJP met NHRC Chairperson Justice KG Balakrishnan today expressing serious concern and thus sudden and inexplicable withdrawal. It is learnt that a committee consisting of ACS Home SK Nanda and DIG Intelligence took this sudden and inexplicable decision on the late evening of September 24.

Attached is the previous correspondence related to the question. In 2007 it was on just such a request to NHRC after a break into the former DGP's Gandhinagar residence that the government of Gujarat had been compelled to give protection in the first place.

As recently widely reported arguments made in the Zakia Jafri case have shown, RB Sreekumar’s direct evidence relate to the consistent warnings from state intelligence of communal mobilisation the home department of the government of Gujarat headed by Narendra Modi that were willfully ignored; direct evidence related to illegal instructions issued by the home minister himself; direct evidence related to the state police and intelligence’s own independent assessments of the communal and hate driven speeches of A-1 Modi and collaborators from the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP). The government's action is a sinister signal.