"Cops were punished for controlling riots"- Judicail Cognizance may be taken on affirmation of Ex-DGP of Gujarat in interest of justice ?!!

A Recent Report of Time of India has brought in light about a solemn affirmation of Retired IPS officer and former state intelligence bureau (IB) chief, R B Sreekumar who has said having requested the Godhra probe panel to seek details on how efficient cops managed to control riots in 2002 in most part of Gujarat. He has also told the commission that state government has "with ulterior motive underplayed or belittled the praiseworthy and model performance of law enforcers" who controlled riots in their respective jurisdictions. it is also reported by this daily news paper that Sreekumar has till date filed eight affidavits before the commission exposing the State's complicity in the 2002 riots. He was denied promotion by the Narendra Modi government, but he fought a long legal battle and got promotion on Gujarat high court order after he retiredSreekumar, who has reportedly dashed off a letter to the Nanavati-Mehta commission and the Supreme Court-mandated special investigation team, has highlighted that state government's claims that the 2002 riots were "spontaneous" and violence took place due to "failure of system" were completely misleading. Sreekumar has also allegedly told the commission to seek details from senior police officers like V K Gupta, Manoj Shashidhar, Satish Verma, Narasimha Komar, Vivek Srivastava, Rahul Sharma, M D Antani, Upendra Singh and Keshav Kumar on how they managed to control violence in their areas. "The information on the operational strategy, tactics, ground-level methodology, techniques of leadership and motivation and administrative measures, adopted by these officers during the time of protracted 2002 anti-minority blood bath in Gujarat will be of great relevance to the terms of reference of the Commission," the letter stated. Analyzing the incidents of violence, Sreekumar has stated that the authorities deliberately acted against the minority community, which resulted in massive violence in areas like Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Panchmahals and north Gujarat.He said that there was either no violence or negligible damage in 16 districts and two commissionerates. But the government has never given due credit to its police officers for effectively containing riots. Instead, those cops have received "shabby treatment from the state government including punishment postings and departmental actions in the post-riot period." His affidavit filed last year contained names of such officials. Looking to the aforesaid news report recently released in public about the said eight solemn affirmations of a retired cop Sreekumar against Modi's Gujarat Govenrment, it becomes now highly necessary for the competent law authorities to take cognizance of such affirmed allegations with a view to digging out the truth from the allegations of a cop in the large interest of justice. Simultaneously it is also very important to justify the actions of Modi's Gujarat Governments, if such the open allegations are false and without any lawful substances. The prime things are that the public at large are not interested to see such the battle of provoking words and virtual swords, but to have a true judicious verdict protecting the public peace and tranquility at large in Gujarat, since a decade.