Haren Pandya widow demands fresh probe

“Talks with Ali reinforced my belief that the CBI was grossly misused by the NDA government,and that belief was also proved right by the high court,” she alleged. She also alleged that the same Intelligence Bureau officer,Rajendra Kumar,who was examined recently by the CBI in the 2004 Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case,was responsible for providing inputs before Pandya’s murder.

“Kumar was the IB officer who generated inputs that some terrorists were coming to Gujarat for an attack (and that formed the) basis for CBI to arrest Ali and the other accused,” she claimed.

Pandya’s widow sees a link between her husband’s murder with the major “fake” encounters of Gujarat. She said,“The police officers,who are accused in the fake encounter cases of Gujarat,have played a role in Pandya’s elimination too.”

Jagruti went to meet Ali to collect more material evidence in the case,she said. “My meeting with Ali lasted for two-and-a-half hours in which he narrated how,on the instance of CBI,he was framed in the case and how he was tortured to make a false confession.

She said,“He told me that he had never visited Gujarat before April 2003,when a team of Gujarat Police brought him to the city before his arrest by the CBI.”

Jagruti would file a petition to seek re-investigations in the case to bring out the truth that she alleged the CBI had buried to protect the interest of BJP in Gujarat. She stated that she wanted to collect more evidence in the case to file the petition in the court.