New Delhi: Amid the ongoing political slugfest over the controversial Ishrat Jahan case, the government has set up a one-man inquiry committee, of additional secretary B.K. Prasad, to probe the missing files in the home ministry relating to the alleged fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan.
The difficult and challenging task of tracing the missing files and fixing responsibility, if need be, for the missing documents, can finally establish the correct sequence of events: on whether the then home minister P. Chidambaram had ordered the filing of the second affidavit “suo motu” as alleged by former home secretary G.K. Pillai, thereby proving the alleged “flip-flop” on the issue by the then UPA government. While no time limit has been set, Mr Prasad, a 1983-batch IAS officer of the Tamil Nadu cadre, has a critical task ahead as the BJP has accused the Congress of deliberately changing the affidavit to establish Ishrat was not a terrorist for “political gains” and “implicating the then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi in the case”.
Last week, home minister Rajnath Singh had accused the then UPA government of hatching a “deep conspiracy” to “frame” Mr Modi while he was Gujarat CM in the Ishrat Jahan case.
