The Home Ministry has lodged an FIR in connection with the missing documents related to the controversial Ishrat Jahan ‘fake encounter’ case, a move that might escalate political slugfest between BJP and Congress.
The action came on a complaint filed by VK Upadhyay, Under Secretary in the MHA, at the Parliament Street Police Station. An FIR has been filed by under Section 409 of the IPC, which deals with criminal breach of trust by public servant, against unknown public servants. The complaint says that the ministry realized files were missing when it decided to looked into the case after the Ishrat Jahan incident was “widely discussed” in the media in March 2016.
The home ministry has filed an FIR with Delhi Police to formally probe how, why and under what circumstances crucial files went missing.
Earlier, an internal probe was conducted by former additional secretary of foreigners division in MHA in May and a report was submitted to Rajnath Singh.
Based on the statements of 11 serving and retired officers, including the then Home Secretary G K Pillai, the 52 -page inquiry panel report had said the documents went missing between September 18-28, 2009.
The second affidavit, which was different from the first one, and filed before Gujarat High Court on September 29, 2009, had said there was no conclusive evidence to suggest that Ishrat was an LeT operative.
The papers which went missing and listed in the FIR are office copy of the letter and enclosure sent by the then Home Secretary to the then Attorney General on September 18, 2009, office copy of another letter sent by the then Home Secretary to the then AG on September 18, 2009, draft further affidavit as vetted by the then AG, draft further affidavit “as amended” by the then Home Minister on September 24, 2009 and office copy of the further affidavit filed with the Gujarat High Court on September 29, 2009.
The paper which was retrieved from a computer hard disk was the letter sent by the then Home Secretary to the then AG on September 18, 2009.
