For almost twelve years, Modi and Shah ruled Gujarat in perfect coordination; almost no conflict was ever reported between them. Behind the public projection of Modi’s claims to be the source of unprecedented development in the state, it is believed that the two men dominated through intimidation and force. During this period, thirty-two officers of the Gujarat police have been jailed for their involvement in fake encounter killings that were allegedly carried out at the behest of Shah. The Supreme Court has set up a special monitoring committee to probe twenty-two fake encounter deaths in Gujarat from 2002 to 2006; in four of these years, Shah was Gujarat’s home minister, and in charge of the state police. This includes the three cases in which Shah himself has been arrested and formally accused: the killings of the gangster Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife, and the subsequent murder of a witness. An extract from ‘The Organiser’ in The Caravan’s April 2014 issue, in which Poornima Joshi tracks several troubling incidents to which Amit Shah’s name has been linked.
Posted on: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 15:07:16 +0000
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