Gujarat probes ‘conspiracy’ behind letter

Gujarat’s jailed IPS officer DG Vanzara’s explosive resignation letter alleging that the Narendra Modi government was “saving its own skin while ditching the police officials” in the fake encounter cases continues to intrigue the state administration. Mahesh Langa reports.

Gujarat’s jailed IPS officer DG Vanzara’s explosive resignation letter alleging that the Narendra Modi government was “saving its own skin while ditching the police officials” in the fake encounter cases continues to intrigue the state administration.

The government is silently enquiring into the “conspiracy” behind the writing of the letter that slammed Modi’s most trusted aide Amit Shah for “misguiding” the chief minister on the Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Ishrat Jahan fake encounter cases.

Vanzara, who has been in jail for six years, says in his letter that “this government was not only not interested in protecting us, but has been clandestinely making all efforts to keep me and my officers in the jail to save its skin from the CBI and gain political benefits.”

Sources in the state government admitted that state Intelligence Bureau officials are probing the matter. “We are trying to ascertain some facts like Vanzara’s visitors at jail in Ahmedabad and Mumbai and also the movements of his family members,” the source said.