Is arrest of Narendra Modi imminent?

There is little doubt left any more that the Chief Minister Narendra Modi is neck deep involved in crimes like kidnapping, illegal detention, ‘extraordinary renditions’, murder, fake encounters, tampering with evidence, covering up crimes as well as crimes against humanity. These crimes were committed by the top brass of his police and intelligence agencies and he was directly connected in chain of command order. Therefore, these call for no less than immediate arrest. However, whether the government and the judiciary follow it to the logical conclusion is the crux of the matter.

Even as late as July 30, 2010 his CID submitted its charge sheet in the matter of Sohrabuddin case in which Dy SP Narendra Amin was not mentioned. Amin had recorded on his mobile Amit Shah asking inspector VN Chauhan to kill Kauserbi and other conversations between Shah and Vanzara while Chauhan was guarding the farmhouses Disha and Aram used as centres of extraordinary renditions at no other place than the state capital Gandhinager, the seat of Modi’s government and power. Such was the case of Amin, even then the Gujarat CID who investigated the case for three years did not mention Amin! He had also shot dead with his hand a Muslim youth in a crowd at a police station in Hyderabad , Andhra Pradesh, where they were protesting the arrest of innocent people.

Right in Gujarat the scene was murkier. Even after murders and mayhem Amin had been around his official residence and still managed to abscond from the police who had gone to arrest him! With all this high drama in the background his name does not figure in the state CID charge sheet! It was submitted as he was applying for turning approver in the fake encounter case. This was done to lure him from turning into approver in the same case being investigated by CBI. It may remind you how the ATS under KP Raghuvanshi submitted charge sheet in the Malegaon 2006 case only hours before the case was handed over to the CBI. This is an instance of what Hemant Karkare called politics of terror. This is a maneuvering. With Amit Shah being under arrest who is behind the hurried submission of the chargesheet if not Modi? Can he be let off the hook when he hectors his audience: “Am I doing anything wrong by fighting terrorism?”

This rhetorical question of Narendra Modi is contextualized in the present and past events of his fighting not terrorism but playing politics of terror. Ishrat Jehan was kept in the same farm house as Kauserbi where she was tortured before she was bumped off on the road and declared a terrorist. She was kidnapped from her house in Mumbai and then killed. Does the law of the country justify that you kidnap and kill a person whom no court has found guilty; in fact such a person has not appeared in any court? Can the people of Gujarat be taken to be so gullible that they would feel proud at such death? Is this the asmita or pride of the state which gave birth to Gandhi? Whose ideology does this extraordinary renditions suit, Mahatma Gandhi’s or Nathuram Godse’s? (For record , Nathuram according to his brother Gopal Godse never left the RSS.)

Will the people of Gujarat and outside it allow the record to slide into oblivion of Modi harbouring Babu Bajrangi in the state guest house of the government of Gujarat in Mount Abu when the Commissioner of Police of Ahemdabar PC Pande had issued shoot at sight order against him? The same Pande, who will later ‘welcome’ Bajrangi in a farcical surrender to law! It did not stop there. Modi shifted one judge after another until he brought in Judge Akshay Mehta who released Bajrangi on bail. One of the judges had told Bajrangi that he would have given him death sentence twice for having killed so many Muslims. Modi also got Mehta on the Nanavati-Shah commission of inquiry into the pogroms of 2002. Will Mehta sit on judgment on Bajrangi! Does the pride of Gujarati people want to see this happen endlessly? Were the innocent Muslims hounded out of Naroda Patia and killed in the black hole of the well terrorists? Was Modi fighting terrorism when he complemented the chharra women for having given birth to men who had butchered the hapless Muslims there? Was the police officer KK Mysorewala glorifying Gujarat when his sentence became headline that there was order from above to deny shelter to the hounded Muslim women and children begging him to give them refuge?

‘Strategic depth’
The BJP ruled states powered by RSS ideology have strategic depth in each other, mainly in Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat; and occasionally in Rajasthan, Goa and Andhra, Karnataka,etc. For example in order to get Sohrabuddin killed the marble and textile tycoons belonging to BJP gave contract to no other than the home minister of Rajasthan Gulabchand Kataria who contacted Amit Shah who ordered arrest, kidnapping and murder of victims through the police in Gujarat. To eliminate Tulsiram Prajapati the Gujarat police had him brought into the state and then they got Vanzara assume charge of the border region and then they killed him on the way. Modi also got Abhay Chaudasma included in the inquiry committee on the fake encounter of Sohrabuddin so that he could deal with the witnesses so as to save the accused police officers close to Modi. GC Raiger had the list of witness taken from Geetha Johari to facilitate Chaudasma. Can anyone expect a fair inquiry with the web of such senior officers around? Is this why Modi had a penchant for Gujarat Control of Organized Crime Act cleared by the centre? A mere confession extracted by his police would have given him and his cops even more impunity to finish off anyone. Will the people of Gujarat be safe under a chief minister who is sworn to protect their life and property but does the very opposite?
The strategic depth is well illustrated by what Chaudasma told Robabuddin and others of the family of Sohrabuddin living in Madhya Pradesh that “the government of the same political party was in power in that state and he (by that Chaudasma meant, Amit Shah) could get them eliminated in Madhya Pradesh itself” if they did not withdraw the case.
And what for does he do it? Communalism combined with grab for power is the hidden agenda of the RSS and its political front BJP. Who is the communalist wielding enormous political power to do all this and also seek more power to fight ‘terrorism’? Power means money, the sangh parivar and its political leaders know it too well. If Indresh Kumar could get three cror rupees Kataria got ten crors. Communalism is the spring source of power for BJP and Shiv Sena and a rich source of income. RSS, BJP and VHP had made it clear to the adivasis or tribals that they had three days to loot and acquire property of Muslims during the carnage of February 28, March 1, 2, in 2002. Even very rich Gujarati Hindus would come in air-conditioned cars to loot valuable items from the shops owned by Muslims!

Fake encounters which followed the pogroms were an extension of what Modi said he was doing, fighting terrorism. He justified the first and subsequently justified the other. Therefore, there is need look at them in a larger context and book Modi for this larger conspiracy against the Muslims. Modi has stepped up his attack on CBI ever since the arrest of Amit Shah. He has come to such a sorry pass of insanity that he does not know what he is saying. He has been accusing that Sohrabuddin has been caught with AK 47s and that is why his fake encounter is justified! He is saying it now, end of July 2010 and August 2010. Even in December 2007 he had spoken so and as a result of it his own defense lawyer KTS Tulsi had resigned on moral ground protesting: “Modi’s statement has created an awkward situation. It is not proper for me to argue for the state in the case, unless the Chief Minister takes his statement back. I can’t defend the state government, whose Chief Minister justifies one of the most heinous crimes and its policemen go on killing citizens in cold blood.”

The arrest of Modi should be imminent provided the government and the judiciary are informed enough to note that he is now inciting the mobs to outrage against the continuing inquiry by CBI ordered by no other than the Supreme Court of the Republic of India!