SRINAGAR: A former official of the Union Home Ministry on Sunday disclosed that a member of the secret service team had accused incumbent governments of orchestrating the terror attack on Indian Parliament and the 26/11 carnage in Mumbai.
The former Indian investigator Satish Verma has said government itself was behind attacks on Parliament in Delhi and Mumbai. According to Times of India the fake encounter case involving a senior officer Under-Secretary of Home Ministry Ishrat Jahan has submitted an affidavit in the court stating that a member of CBI and SIC investigation team Satish Verma told him that in the terrorists attacks on Parliament in Delhi and Mumbai terror attacks were pre-planned.
A key government official, RVS Mani said Satish Verma, until recently a part of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe team, told him that both the terror attacks were set up with the objective of strengthening the counter-terror legislation.
Mani has said that Verma narrated that the December 13, 2001 (attack on Parliament) was followed by Pota (Prevention of Terrorist Activities Act) and 26/11 2008 (terrorists siege of Mumbai) was followed by amendment to the UAPA (Unlawful Activities Prevention Act).
The official has alleged that Verma levelled the damaging charge while debunking IB’s inputs labelling the three killed with Ishrat in the June 2004 encounter as Lashkar terrorists. Contacted by Times of India, Verma refused to comment. “I don’t know what the complaint is, made when and to whom. Nor am I interested in knowing. I cannot speak to the media on such matters.
Ask the CBI,” said the Gujarat cadre IPS officer who after being relieved from the SIT is working as principal of the Junagadh Police Training College.
India had accused Pakistan of involvement in both the attacks. Afzal Guru and Ajmal Kasab have already been hanged in the parliament and 26/11 cases, respectively. KO Monitoring Desk
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