Verma Commission’s Findings
1. Verma commission heavily
criticized serious security lapses introduced by police & intelligence
wings of state, central governments and also by Congress leaders
2. Ministerial committee which
was instituted to review findings of Verma commission did not analyze any such
aspects but quickly winded up after blaming four officers. Much to the demise
of legal experts, the investigation against those officers was started long
after they retired from service (when they enjoy impunity from any such
investigation). The officers as if things have been pre-planned, did not panic.
Instead they approached proper legal bodies and got the exceptions from enquiry
3. Credibility of M.K.Narayanan
as IB director was questioned in length by Justice Verma for he,
§ a. Rejected to produce original
video recordings of the bomb explosion
§ b. Rejected to agree in writing
that he attended the meeting that discussed Rajiv’s security immediately
following the announcement of Parliament elections
4. Karthikeyan, the head of SIT
also exhibited a suspicious behavior
§ a. He too rejected to show the
original video recordings of the bomb blast even in the last sitting of Verma
commission
§ b. A version presented by him had
the last few critical minutes being heavily tampered with making it very haze
to arrive at any conclusion
§ c. He is also reported for having
rejected the existence of such a video initially even to an enquiry commission
Jain commission’s Findings
1. Jain commission shared the
shock and disbelief of the entire nation when it got a response from the Home
Ministry that the file containing original documents related to Verma
commission is MISSING
§ a. A similar disappearance of
important documents happened with CBI officer Kumar losing his briefcase full
of internationally collected documents in London’s Heathrow airport. He did
nothing but file a complaint with London police and was put to no disciplinary
action.
2. The obstacles put up by the
Congress to the proper working of the Jain commission is multi pronged
§ a. Attorney General filed a suit
that the Jain commission does not have any AUTHORITY to enquire anyone who has
been enquired by SIT before
§ b. It cannot accuse anyone else
apart from those accused by SIT as per his claim
§ c. Law ministry from its part
delayed the process by taking a whole year to send a response to Jain’s request
for clarification
§ d. It also tried its best to
limit Jain commission’s fair trial process by supporting the claim made by
Attorney General
3. But the best of moves from
Congress was with the filing of a case in Delhi high court against the validity
of the G.O which installed the Jain commission
§ a. This prompted the HC to bring
an interim stay to any enquiry by the Jain commission
§ b. This only lead to a delay as
the HC reassured the powers of Jain commission to operate with independence and
anyone it finds fit shall be called for enquiry
§ c. The Congress in a knee jerk
reaction escalated the case to Supreme Court of India. It was rightly caught
with the SC questioning its interest in promoting a PIL filed by a so-called
individual Delhi Lawyer Mustaq.
§ d. Congress ended up withdrawing
the case showing everyone that it is the Congress that acted as the real hand
behind the PIL file by Mustaq. Why would Congress try to stall a legally
established enquiry commission?
4. The most successful move by
Congress against the Jain commission was with the threat to withdraw the
support to IK Gujral government if Jain commission was left to exist anymore.
§ a. The minority government forced
by Congress pulled the plug off the only fair trial mechanism
§ b. Jain commission was forced to
submit a final report in 7 days
§ c. A minister called up Jain and
asked him to present only a high level report and asked him not to present any
Action Taken Report (ATR). This would mean that the report is not presented in
Parliament and sent to the Secretariat of the respective ministries instead
5. Jain commission withstood the
enormous pressure exerted by Congress and presented a detailed 2000 page report
explaining the clear links that Chandraswami had with the assassination and
SubramanianSwamy’s links with the assassination
6. Justice Jain also wrote to
Home ministry about the threat received from various parties and the way SIT
tried to intimidate the works of Jain commission
7. Later it came to light that
Narasimha Rao in order to save his close friend Chandraswami made the files to
disappear
8. The one who performed all
these activities on the behest of Narasimha Rao is none other the Home minister
P. Chidambaram
The entire process leads to greater
suspicions on the activities of the SIT. These questions do remain!
1. Why only sympathizers of Tamil
cause alone were interrogated, accused and convicted?
§ a. All 26 of the accused were
Tamils or sympathizers of Tamils, 13 from India and 13 from Srilanka. Yet
Tamils who had an anti-Tamil affinity were excused.
§ b. All 4 of the accused who were
condemned to death were Tamils and sympathizers of Tamil cause
§ c. For example, Perarivalan who
was convicted to death was charged that he bought a 9v battery for the assassin.
The only evidence was the cash bill (to be retained safely in his pocket when
police arrested his months later!) that was supposed to have been given by a
road side petty shop. Does any roadside shop in India give a receipt even now
for a 5 Rs purchase? How about 20 years before (in 1991), before the invent of
computerized billing? While Perarivalan who was watching movie at the time of
Rajiv’s death was enquired and finally convicted, Marakatham Chandrasekar and
her daughter who helped the assassin to approach Rajiv and were present at the
site of assassination left to go free?
2. People who played definite
roles were never convicted, accused or even interrogated
3. Apart from the vicious
intention in the SIT’s approach, there are also serious human right violations
in the way the enquiry was done. SIT’s officer Thiyagarajan infamously
indicated by the Kerala HC for turning Sister Abaya’s rape and murder case in
to a suicide case was heavily criticized for his credibility as an
investigation officer.
§ a. It is shocking to believe that
the Supreme Court’s verdict to hang the accused was based on the confessional
statements obtained through brutal tortures by this tainted officer
§ b. There are lot of evidences to
believe that the SIT has been heavily biased by those who were in power
§ c. This is strengthened by the
way in which SIT tried to substantiate a charge against life convict Robert
Pias only by quoting that he had intentions to murder Rajiv since IPKF killed
his 13 days old child by smashing the infant to the wall. The fact remained
that the harmless Pias was taking refuge in India in an attempt to save his
other kid
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