That is not how it has been playing out. The judiciary aside(if you note I have always held that the law will take its course), there is way too much political gamesmanship going on in this case with the INC using this case to try & exploit the situation. While I would not hazard a guess if the CBI was under any influence, the behavior of the NIA hardly seems above suspicion. The home ministry's own actions seem contradictory at times. The CBI going after the IB officer is unprecedented and what access the CBI has to IB sources remains unknown. The judiciary is correct in the argument that it does not matter what the status of the accused was, however public perception is different and I find it difficult to reconcile this case being pushed as opposed to acid throwers being shot & the police there never having to face the same threat
Are you not being disingenuous?
If there is political gamesmanship, more than half of it originates with the BJP. Why are they so agitated about it, why are their spokespersons wholly engaged with it, why have reacted even before their politicians are chargesheeted? When Amit Shah was actually chargesheeted, for exactly this kind of sordid murder that he and Vanzara had successfully monetized, why was there no reaction from the BJP? Why now, why so shrill, why so widespread?
Please look at the case as it stands today, and tell me why it bothers the BJP so much. It is they who are responsible for the gamesmanship.
You mentioned the NIA. There is reason, very good reason, to believe that the supposed extract from their report is a forgery. It is difficult to understand your misgivings about them.
The same applies to your unexplained remarks about the Home Ministry. How is it concerned in this matter? Could you spell it out? Neither the rogue action by the IB officer nor the initiation of the CBI in this case had anything to do with them. You need to refresh your understanding of the terms and conditions under which the CBI may be brought into a matter; it is not at all a central matter, but has to be initiated at the state level. Once a prosecution has started, the centre has faced criticism for slowing these down to serve a political purpose,
never for initiating it.
The CBI had
no access to IB sources. Nobody has access to IB sources except as the IB shares it with others, particularly with Military, Naval and Air intelligence (the last a very rare occurrence). Why, by the way, should the CBI have had access to IB sources in the first place, unless you are one of those laboring under the delusion that suspicion of terrorism, or even established links to terrorists permits supersession of the law and the entire judicial process? As you yourself have pointed out the judiciary has taken the view that it does not matter what the status of the accused was; that applies to some future extension of the charge sheet to the IB officer as well.
Finally, it may dismay you, but it encourages me to believe that the days of arbitrary police action are waning; what was accepted a few years ago is no longer acceptable now.
My point is in the behind the scene actions, not judicial proceedings. As I have said earlier, this case seems to have a life of its own as if it operates in a completely different plane as against the numerous such incidents elsewhere in India.
That is on precisely the same plane as the recent agitations in which the middle classes participated so aggressively. If they are sensitized today to corruption, which is ancient and rooted in our society, why are you surprised that they have reacted to this? It is that public sense of outrage across all communities that gives the case a life of its own, not your mysterious behind the scene actions. How did you learn about them, by the way, was it through the application of inductive logic?
The issue isn't about Modi or the INC. In the end, I really don't care enough excepting for the hypocrisy involved. It is about how a sensitive issue of intelligence operations on counter terrorism is being dealt with in a ham handed fashion. I cannot but fear the long term consequences for national security if IB officers and state police acting on intelligence tip off's fear for their own safety and decided to play it safe.
Again, a total misreading and a total failure of comprehension.
It is nobody's case that the IB erred in passing on information to the state police. That is exactly what they are paid to do. The issue arose of criminal culpability when one of the Gujarat Police officers stated during his interrogation that the IB officer, and perhaps several of his subordinates, participated in the events that followed, the abduction, the illegal detention, the murders. Is it your case that this criminal behaviour should also go unchallenged?
As I mentioned earlier an assassin sent to take out Kasab was interdicted & a planned terrorist attack on the CWG foiled.
You mentioned speculation in this regard. Can you point to a shred of evidence on the ground?
The absence of any court case against anyone leaves us to use our imagination to how that was done. What is the real difference to this case, if we are right in what we are thinking?
it is a sobering reflection that even a mature commentator should now conclude that absence of any evidence indicates proof of the event.
And what if all your private speculation and nightmares are not right? What if you should ask yourself why the desperate private battle of a rogue administration is being converted to a matter of public principle?
Suicide bomber for payment?
A matter for light badinage?