Good question. Why didn't the IB ask the Maharashtra police to arrest them before they came to Gujarat ? IB is a central organisation. If the actions of the state police are taken as the actions accorded permission by the CM of Gujarat, then logic hold that the Union Home Minister & the PM should be held accountable for the actions of IB personnel. There is no logic to the argument that the IB didn't understand what was happening, what would happen with the information given by them. If the CBI is to be believed, the IB officer helped plant the weapons at the site of the
"encounter". Since the IB director has voiced his support for the officer concerned, it must be assumed that the IB as an organisation was involved in the operation. The
"Buck" then stops at the HM & PM's door if the wish is to see the actions of the Gujarat police as reflecting on the CM there.
Btw, it would be very interesting to ask what happened to the assassin supposedly sent by Dawood Ibrahim to take out Kasab. It seems common knowledge that he was interdicted by Indian intelligence but what became of him? Don't see a court case anywhere....
Unfortunately for your intervention, there is no case against the IB or its serving officers at the moment, so all these are moot.
If, with the gathering of further evidence, there is an extension to the charge sheet including this man, or any others from the SIB in addition to him, those charges will be that he overstepped his role and exceeded his authority, in conspiring with the Gujarat police officers concerned to execute the murders.
There was never any argument that the IB did not understand what would happen to the information given by them.; on the contrary, if a case is found, it will be on the grounds that they not only knew what was done with that information, but participated in the further proceedings. They were not dazed and innocent bystanders, if the evidence goes into individual responsibilities being established. But that is still moot, as at the present.
It is perverse to claim that the IB Director has voiced his support for the planting of weapons by the officer concerned, when all he did was to point out that the subsidiary bureau officers must be free to pass on information without the fear of being held responsible for the consequences. That support does not cover the obvious criminal excess that may have been committed in the possible conspiracy that may have taken place. To jump from this general enunciation of support for the normal role and duties of the IB to endorsement of criminal behaviour is not warranted.
The whole train of reasoning from this non-existent support for criminal misconduct to involving the IB in the planting of arms and the murder operation through to the nonsensical involvement of the Home Minister and the Prime Minister is based on only the leap from the Director's defence of officers doing their duty to an unjustified extension to officers engaged in premeditated murder. You must see for yourself that this is ridiculous.
As for the rest, pistols, 30 paces, Lalbagh, July 15th, 05:00?
I say this because I too have quite a few defense connections, and I know the general mindset of the officers.
The specimens you have had the misfortune of rolling in the mud with are akin to Zarvi, less polite though. A plaintive and pusillanimous lot only capable of shrouding their intellectual inadequacies behind heckling, lamentable attempts at indulging in japes and farcical hyperbole. Neophytes at best absent any power or standing.
