Maha IPS officer resigns in protest after CAB passed

MUMBAI: A senior IPS officer and Inspector General of Police posted to the Maharashtra State Human Rights Com

mission,

Abdur Rahman

, resigned from service, minutes after the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019, was passed in the Rajya Sabha.

AHMEDABAD: Thefinalreportofthe CommissionofInquiryheadedby retired Supreme Court judge, JusticeGTNanavati,probing the Godhratrainburningincidentof February 2002 that left 59 ‘kar sevaks’ dead, the subsequent communalriotsthatbrokeoutin Gujarat over the following three months, and the role of the then CM Narendra Modi, along with other ministers and the police, was tabled in the state Assembly onWednesday,andfoundnopremeditation or conspiracy in the riotsthatleftmorethan1,200people dead.

Giving a clean chit to the PM, the 2,500-page, nine-volume report stated: “There is no evidence to show that these attacks wereeitherinspiredorinstigated or abated by any minister of the state.” The report, which was submittedinNovember2014,but not tabled in the assembly till now, further said that the police was ineffective in controlling riots. The first part of the report, whichfoundthatthetrain-burning incident was premeditated, wassubmittedinSeptember2008.

“Over44,000affidavits, including 18,000 for relief work and 400 bythegovernmentofficers,were

filedbeforethecommission. The commissionhascometotheconclusion that riots were not a conspiracy and it gives clean chit to (the) then CM Modi, his governmentandofficers,”saidPradeepsinh Jadeja, minister of state for home, who tabled the report.