NEW DELHI: Union Minister Kiren Rijuju today stoked a fresh controversy on the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case by accusing the then Home Ministry headed by P Chidambaram of working in “tandem” with terror outfit LeT, a charge vehemently denied by Congress which demanded his immediate sacking.
In an interview to ‘TV Today’, Rijuju, who holds the post of Minister of State for Home, listed a sequence of events in the Ishrat Jahan case and said initially Lashker-e-Taiba (LeT) had claimed that she was a martyr but changed its statement the day a “particular officer” was made in-charge of the investigations from CBI.
He did not name the officer but it was Gujarat IPS officer Satish Verma who probed the case.
“In Ishrat Jahan case, the first day when the encounter took place the LeT declared Ishrat as a martyr soon after the encounter. And the day a particular police official was appointed, a Gujarat IPS officer….The Lashkar changed their statement, saying they had made an error and Ishrat was not part of their module.
“See how the Home Ministry and LeT were working in tandem. It is such a disastrous thing to happen in such a great country like India,” he said. (AGENCIES)
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