SIT played with evidence,Bhatt tells NCM

In an additional affidavit filed before the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) on Tuesday,suspended DIG Sanjiv Bhatt has asked the rights panel to initiate action against the Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by R K Raghvan for incorrectly recording his statements or tweaking them to give a clean chit to Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

In an additional affidavit filed before the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) on Tuesday,suspended DIG Sanjiv Bhatt has asked the rights panel to initiate action against the Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by R K Raghvan for incorrectly recording his statements or tweaking them to give a clean chit to Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

Bhatt stated in the affidavit that the SITs acts amounted to an offence under Section 218 (public servant framing incorrect record or writing with intent to save person from punishment or property from forfeiture) and 219 (public servant in judicial proceeding corruptly making report,etc.,contrary to law) of the Indian Penal Code.

It is now apparent from the report submitted by SIT that certain very crucial portions of my statement,including the timings of extremely consequential meetings with the Chief Minister Narendra Modi on February 27 and February 28,2002,have either been incorrectly recorded or deliberately tweaked by the SIT,possibly with the ulterior motive and intent of shielding certain powerful persons including the Chief Minister from legal punishment, the affidavit says.

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Bhatts affidavit adds that he has written to multiple agencies alleging that certain important documents had been destroyed selectively by the state government.

Bhatt claims in the affidavit that after the Supreme Courts amicus curiae Raju Ramchandran visited him,the state government wrote a confidential letter to the SIT chairman.

I have also received a copy of a letter (marked confidential) dated June 22,2011 from the under secretary,home department,to the SIT chairman. In the said letter,the Government of Gujarat has stated it has retrieved several emails of Shri Sanjiv Bhatt (I am not commenting on the legality of such retrieval), Bhatt quotes Ramchandrans report as saying.

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