ISHRAT JAHAN again :: Na Khuda hi mila & Naa Bisaal-e-Sanam

Today when I was on Twitter & chatting with friends there, I saw a tweet from Mr. Ram Datt Sharma @RDATT26 referring a report published in TOI as "Ishrat case: Top govt officials, cops sabotaged probe, CBI says". This subject is going on & on without considerations from general public & authorities as well. I too wrote a blog over it "ISHRAT JAHAN :: Fake or Political Encounter". Even though this article caught my eyes for sheer reason of its reporting. It referred to CBI as

"The CBI has submitted proof of a high-level meeting between top government functionaries and cops involved in theIshratJahan fake encounter case held to sabotage investigations in the case." 

I am quoting exact word by word from the report with all mistakes it has. It further says that

"Revelations about this meeting were made by suspended IPS officer G L Singhal, an accused in the case who is now out on default bail. Singhal had recorded the meeting secretly and has submitted the audio recording to the CBI. In the chargesheet filed by the CBI, Singhal has given evidence of the high-level meeting held by the Gujarat government." 

Please mark "Singhal had recorded the meeting secretly." " By the way Mr. G L Singhal is the same person who was  given bail along with three other accused by the special CBI court in Ishrat Jahan encounter case. I am not writing or quoting it as "Fake Encounter" as it is still to be decided by the designated court. However it was encounter : Fake or Genuine: no one knowns. The TOI report further says 

"Singhal has disclosed that the meeting was held in November 2011, when the HC was supervising this case and had also directed the state government not to obstruct investigations by the probe agency."

Now comes the most important part of the report which demolishes whole claims of CBI or TOI Reporter (yours truly NGO Reporter). The TOI states that

"Singhal along with another accused cop - then assistant commissioner of police, crime branch, Tarun Barot - had been coached on how to mislead the investigating agency. Singhal had attended the meeting with advocate Rohit Verma."

Now mark last sentence

"Singhal had attended the meeting with advocate Rohit Verma."  

To see the exact thing I am reproducing screen shot of this portion.

Kindly mark under red line & in box Singhal had recorded the meeting secretly & Singhal had attended the meeting with "advocate Rohit Verma"
I had served in government department for 37 years. I know some time unofficial meeting are held to discuss "Official Agenda" in "Unofficial Way". But care is taken that

• No MOM (Minutes of Meeting) is prepared or kept or circulated.
• No one, even clerks & other junior officers, other than concerned officers are called in the meeting.
• No one is allowed to record or note down instructions or coaching, as TOI report say.

Many of friends in real life or officers who are on social media or otherwise know this fact. 

So how on earth, Mr. G L Singhal was allowed to attend with advocate Mr. Rohit Verma in such meeting where "Coaching" was to be given unless & until Rohit Verma was or is part of that team. Moreover who officer would be fool enough to have an advocate, even if he is a official advocate, in such meeting, if at all such meeting took place. 

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How Singhal recorded the meeting that too with an evidence of "Advocate" & whether such recording, without permission, is admissible in the Court of Law?

You need not to be Sh. Ram Jethmalani Or some Hi-Fi criminal lawyer to understand that such an evidence will fall apart in the very first cross questioning in the court.
But then why CBI believed such report & presented in court? Are they fool? Certainly not. Then what is CBI's game plan?
It is ticklish question to answer. I will try to analysis it in following way.

CBI may be trying to play dual game.

1. First they want to please its current political bosses by presenting report to defame Modi keeping in view of coming general election. 
2. They want to keep future political boss pleased, in this case Modi, by presenting a weak report which is mostly likely to fail in the Court of law.

By doing so they are trying to please both. But CBI should be see that they are not falling in a situation where "Na Khuda  hi mila & Naa Bisaal-e-Sanam, Naa idhar ke rahe, Naa udhar ke rahe" (ना खुदा मिला & ना बिसाले सनम, ना इधर के रहे ना उधर के रहे)" or other Hindi proverb "xxxx, Na ghar ka, Naa ghat kaa (xxxx, ना घर का ना घाट का). 

Jai Hind 

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PS:: I wanted to put whole proverb but got afraid. Who knows some Tiwari or other "Secular may read this proverb only & take it out of context to slam me while ignoring whole article as per fashion of the day.

Disclaimer: This article is based on TOI article. The writer don't claim truthfulness of TOI article or deny that. The TOI report is referred to analysis current satiation. This report/article does not intend to harm or cast aspiration on anyone.  

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Pradeep Shanker

(NGO Reporter)