By TwoCircles.net staff reporter
Mumbai: Deputy Superintendent of Police Khurshid Mysorewala, who is leading the September 2008 Modasa blast investigation team, has come under the Special Investigation Team’s (SIT) scanner as the Supreme Court has instructed the agency to probe his role in post-Godhra Muslims massacres.
Mysorewala is among the 63 persons whom Zakia Jafri, widow of ex-Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, has accused to be a part of the “overarching conspiracy to allow violence all over the state’ and demanded the Supreme Court to probe his role in the post-Godhra riots. The Supreme Court has reportedly instructed the SIT, which is probing the ten major cases of Gujarat riots including that of Godhra carnage, to investigate the role of those named in the complaint.
Zakia, in her 2000-page complaint to the Supreme Court, has alleged Mysorewala, then inspector of Naroda police station, of showing dereliction towards his duty when the rioters attacked Naroda Gam and Naroda Patia areas killing 109 Muslims. In the massacre the Ehsan Jafri was also killed.
She also claims that despite being provided with a reinforcement of 24 armed personnel from the Sate Reserve Police, Mysorewala did nothing to stop the rioters.
Many other witnesses too have reportedly leveled similar accusations against Mysorewala in their statements to the SIT.
However, Mysorewala has defended himself saying that he did what he could and that ‘the causalities would have been much higher had I not taken action.’
Mysorewala, who has been upgraded since the 2002 Gujarat riots, currently heads the investigation team probing the Modasa blasts of September 2008. In the blast that took place on September 29, 2008 in Modasa town in Sabarkantha district of Gujarat, one person was killed while several others were injured.