Three senior IPS officers of Gujarat cadre have alleged victimisation by the Modi government after they accused the state government of inaction during the 2002 riots and in a case of alleged fake encounter.
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday said that the Centre may step in following complaints by the police officers.
Chidambaram reiterated that there are rules which allow the Centre to intervene but only at the behest of the officer concerned.
“Rules do provide for Central Government to take certain decisions but this depends on officer concerned. If officer concerned raises it we can,” said Chidambaram at press conference.
After IPS officers Sanjiv Bhatt and Rahul Sharma, the Modi government’s latest victim to be DIG Rajneesh Rai, who has told the Central Administrative Tribunal that his annual confidential report has been downgraded by the state government.
Rai had sent a report accuses former state DGP PC Pande of conspiring to kill Tulsi Prajapati in 2006. Rai in his report had claimed that former Gujarat home minister Amit Shah was influencing the investigations in the fake encounter cases.
Meanwhile BJP has defended Modi and claimed the police officers were acting as Congress workers.
“These police officers were actively conspiring with some civil society groups and were in touch with some state Congress leaders to destabilise the state government,” said senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley.