Ahmadabad: The Gujarat Cabinet said that Vanzara’s resignation cannot be accepted till the cases against him are not closed. The Gujarat government on Wednesday rejected the resignation submitted by IPS officer DG Vanzara, who is under custody for the last seven years for involvement in alleged fake encounter cases.
The development came on a day Congress demanded Modi’s resignation in the wake of a sting operation claiming to “expose” a plan by senior BJP leaders to save his key aide Amit Shah in Tulsi Prajapati fake encounter case. Controversial IPS officer Vanzara, who has so far rejected charges of fake encounter killings during Modi’s tenure, accused the government of failing to protect officers who fought against “Pakistan inspired terrorism”. In his 10-page explosive resignation letter addressed to Additional Chief Secretary (Home) dated September 1, Vanzara, lodged in Sabarmati Central Jail in connection with a string of alleged fake encounter cases, said the accused officers and men “simply implemented the conscious policy” of the state government. In his hard-hitting letter, Vanzara said if policemen could be sent to jail for alleged fake encounters, the place of the state government “should either be in Taloja central prison at Navi Mumbai or in Sabarmati Central Prison at Ahmedabad.
The suspended officer, who is a prime accused in the alleged fake encounter killings of Tulsiram Prajapati, Sadik Jamal, Mumbai student Ishrat Jahan, Javed Shaikh, and two alleged Pakistani nationals Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar, dubbed the Gujarat government as “spineless” when it came to protecting its own officers. Earlier in the day, Congress had demanded Modi’s resignation alleging an attempt was being made to cover up the alleged fake encounter killing case of Tulsi Prajapati. “The facts, which have been shown in the CD, are very serious and important. This is an attempt to influence the judicial process. The matter should be investigated by the CBI and till the probe is over, Modi should not remain in office. He should resign.
“How can he remain Chief Minister when such allegations have come out,” AICC Communication Department Chairman Ajay Maken told reporters in Delhi at a special briefing. Maken was addressing the media a day after a PIL was filed in the Supreme Court against BJP MPs Prakash Javdekar and Bhupendra Singh Yadav alleging that they tried to impede investigation in Prajapati case in which Amit Shah is the main accused. A 1987-batch IPS officer, Vanzara is the second officer after GL Singhal to resign citing neglect by the state government.
Bureau Reports
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