Rahul smells a rat to ‘silence’ Davinder

Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday smelt an attempt to “silence” J&K DSP Davinder Singh, two days after the J&K Director General of Police announced that his case was being transferred to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

“The best way to silence terrorist DSP Davinder is to hand over the case to NIA,” Rahul said even as other Congress leaders said Davinder may have a hand in the Pulwama attack on a security force convoy killing 42 jawans and it suits the Modi government to silence him at the earliest, lest he starts divulging many secrets in the questioning by the J&K police.

In his tweet with hashtag

“Who Wants Terrorist Davin der Silenced, Rahul said: “The NIA is headed by another Modi — YK, who investigated the Gujarat riots & Haren Pandya’s assassination. In YK’s care, the case is as good as dead.”

He is doubting the NIA’s ability because of the past track record of its director general Y.C. Modi in the investigations he carried out in Gujarat post-Godhra riots in 2012.

Rahul perhaps meant YC and not YK in his tweet as the current NIA chief is Yogesh Chandra Modi, a 1984 batch IPS officer of the Assam Meghalaya cadre. Modi worked with the CBI for 10 years in two stints and hit the headlines for clearing the name of Narendra Modi, then the chief minister of Gujarat as part of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted by the Supreme Court to probe the 2002 Gujarat riots.