CBI wants to question Narendra Modi too

AHMEDABAD: The CBI team, which has sent former minister of state for home Amit Shah behind bars, is likely to seek permission from its headquarters soon to question CM Narendra Modi who is also holding the home portfolio.

Another special investigation team (SIT), which is probing the Gulbarg Society massacre of 2002, had questioned Modi for nine hours on March 27 this year.

The finger of suspicion in the Sohrabuddin-Kauserbi killing is pointing at Modi because he signed the transfer orders of then CID chief G C Raiger around midnight of February 3-4, 2007, while he was holding a 'Chintan Shivir' at Karai Police Academy on the outskirts of Ahmedabad.

Modi has held these two-day camps on numerous occasions in the past, holding ministers and top officials captive and giving them his broad vision of the way forward for Gujarat. These 'shivirs' are normally organized in places where there is enough accommodation for almost 100 or more participants to spend one-two nights together. This was the first 'shivir' for IPS officers — the previous ones had involved bureaucrats and ministers.