This exclusive is published by INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a new crowd-funded investigative journalism project
A
senior Indian police officer and anti-corruption investigator last
month accused the Indian government of orchestrating the Mumbai terror
attacks which occurred nearly seven years ago, according to an Indian
government official.
R. V. S. Mani, a former undersecretary in India’s home ministry now in the urban development ministry, testified
in July that a senior police officer who investigated the 2004
‘encounter killings’ of four Indian Muslims in Gujarat by the Ahmedabad
Police Crime Branch, had told him that the 2008 Mumbai attacks were “set
up” by the Indian government.
The
police officer, Satish Verma — currently Principal at the Police
Training College in Junagadh — is well-known for his secondment to the
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), India’s elite anti-corruption law
enforcement agency, to lead the probe into the 2004 ‘encounter
killings.’
The 2004 victims
were Ishrat Jahan Raza, a 19-year-old girl from Mumbra, Maharashtra, and
three men — Pranesh Pillai (alias Javed Gulam Sheikh), Amjad Ali Rana
and Zeeshan Johar. Gujarat police authorities with the support of Indian
government officials claimed that the killings were justified due to
credible intelligence linking the four to Islamist terrorists.
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