Congress on Saturday alleged that the Gujarat government's action against senior IPS officer Rahul Sharma was an attempt to "protect" chief minister Narendra Modi in regard to the Godhra aftermath.
"The proceedings against Sharma is just an example of the kind of efforts that the BJP and the BJP government has been making to protect Modi because in the eyes of the public, he has already been convicted," Union minister and senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal said.
Sibal was asked to comment on the show-cause notice issued by the Gujarat police to Sharma who had submitted a Compact Disk (CD) containing phone call records of police officials and political leaders to various probe panels inquiring into the 2002 post-Godhra riots.
The minister said that the action showed how the Narendra Modi administration has "constantly been throwing roadblocks" in the way of a fair inquiry into the Gujarat riots.
Taking a dig at BJP leader Arun Jaitley, Sibal said "I remember my good friend Jaitley immediately after the riots saying 'we are setting up a Nanavati Commission and the report would be available to us in four months'....We are in 2011 and nine years have passed and those four months are not yet over".
The notice asks Sharma why action should not be initiated against him for handing over the telephone records concerning the 2002 riots to inquiry panels without obtaining permission from the government.
The move by the state government comes a day after the Tehelka magazine released details of purported report of the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) into post-Godhra riots and Modi's alleged role.
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