Sarabhai accuse Modi to bribe her lawyers
AHMEDABAD: Today Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has been accused of using public funds to “bribe Malika Sarabhai’s lawyers” in an attempt to derail proceedings of the PIL filed in the Supreme Court by her on the post-Godhra 2002 riots case.
She alleged, “Chief Minister Narendra Modi had called the then State Intelligence Bureau (SIB) chief RB Sreekumar and another IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, who was his deputy in SIB at that time, and asked them to pay my lawyers Rs 10 lakh to derail the proceedings of PIL filed in the Supreme Court by me.”
She provided to the media, copy of an affidavit filed by Sreekumar recently before the G T Nanavati and Akshay Mehta Commission probing the riots here.
Sarabhai claimed, “Police officer Sanjiv Bhatt had also in his deposition in May to the Nanavati Commission said that he was given instructions by Shri Narendra Modi to use secret services’ money to bribe the lawyers who were involved in my case to delay what the chief minister felt was a very dangerous PIL for the health of the government.”
In April 2002 Malika Sarabhai had filed in which she contended that the state administration and Modi were ‘complicit’ in the 2002 riots in the state.
