Fresh storm over alleged tutoring in MHA in Ishrat Jahan case

A media report that the head of the inquiry into the missing Ishrat Jahan files had allegedly tutored a key witness set off a fresh storm today with Congress pushing for suo motu action by Supreme Court, accusing the Modi government of creating a "fake controversy".

Written by: Press Trust of India

Published: June 16, 2016, 11:44 PM IST

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New Delhi/Mumbai, Jun 16 :  A media report that the head of the inquiry into the missing Ishrat Jahan files had allegedly tutored a key witness set off a fresh storm today with Congress pushing for suo motu action by Supreme Court, accusing the Modi government of creating a “fake controversy”.

Union Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi “hotly denied” that a senior official in his ministry allegedly tutored an officer on how to answer questions relating to missing files in Ishrat Jahan ‘fake encounter’ in Ahmedabad while BJP said it does not absolve former Home Minister P Chidambaram of his “role” in the change of affidavit to dilute the “fact” that she was terrorist. B K Prasad, the Additional Secretary and the official in question, said no evidence has produced establishing that the officer identified as Ashok Kumar testified being ‘tutored’ during his alleged conversation. (ALSO READ: Government creating ‘fake controversy’ on Ishrat Jahan affidavits: P Chidambaram)

“I have conducted a free and fair enquiry which my report will reveal,” he said in a statement. Chidambaram, a senior Congress leader, accused the Modi government of creating a “fake controversy” over two affidavits filed in the Ishrat Jahan case and preparing a “doctored” report on the missing files. In a statement, Chidambaram said the news report “comprehensively exposed the fake controversy” created by the NDA government on the two affidavits filed by the central government in the case.

“The moral of the story is that even a doctored report (of the Inquiry Officer) cannot hide the truth. The real issue is whether Ishrat Jahan and three others were killed in a genuine encounter or a fake encounter(in Ahmedabad). Only the trial of the case, pending since July 2013, will bring out the truth,” he said. The B K Prasad-led one-man inquiry committee yesterday submitted its report where it said that four of the five missing documents continue to be untraceable.