‘Kali dadhi and safed dadhi have given us the green signal for everything.’ These were the words that suspended IPS officer, DG Vanzara, had told PI KM Vaghela of his DCB team, on the night before Ishrat Jahan and three others were killed in a fake encounter on June 15, 2004.
This was revealed in a statement which is part of the charge sheet filed by CBI.
‘We used code names safed dadhi for Narendra Modi and kali dadhi for Amit Shah,’ Vaghela had further said in his statement to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that was recorded as part of investigations in the fake encounter case. According to Vaghela’s statement (a copy of which is with dna), he was trying to resolve the “operational differences” between DG Vanzara and then ACP GL Singhal regarding the encounter of Ishrat and Co.
CBI sources have confided that Vaghela’s statement has been included in the investigating agency’s charge sheet in Ishrat case, which was submitted before special CBI court on July 3, 2013. Modi and Shah haven’t been named in the charge sheet.
Vaghela’s statement in the charge sheet reads that he was called upon by Singhal at Bungalow No15 in Duffnala, Shahibaug, to intervene and resolve the ‘operational difference’ between him (Singhal) and Vanzara. Vaghela also mentions in his statement that he wasn’t aware of what ‘operational differences’ Singhal was referring to. Singhal chose him to talk to Vanzara because of their long-standing association.
Vaghela went into Vanzara’s office at about 11pm on June 14, 2004, where the latter said that everything had been planned earlier in a meeting between him (Vanzara), PP Pandey (accused in Ishrat case and then JCP-DCB) and Rajinder Kumar (then special director of Subsidiary IB, Ahmedabad). Another accused cop, DH Goswami, was also present at the scene.
Sources claim that there were differences between Singhal and Vanzara and thus the former wasn’t ready to conduct the encounter as designed by Vanzara.
He, however, succumbed to Vanzara’s wishes. Vaghela’s statement isn’t the only one that has gone against Modi and Shah, indicating political undertones in the fake encounter, in which four people were killed. There are several others, waiting to be unearthed.
