The lawsuits against the Gujarat police related to the fake encounter killings have landed 15 senior police officials behind the bars. While the Supreme Court-ordered CBI inquiry has the potential to indict several prominent politicians and ministers in the Narendra Modi administration. The Home Minister of Gujarat, Mr. Amit Shah, has reportedly gone into hiding fearing arrest by the CBI. In order to subvert and discredit this CBI inquiry, a massive advertising campaign has been launched in the Gujarati media by unknown entities to defame the CBI and dub it with various defamatory labels.
This is nothing but an attempt to create a political atmosphere where it would not be possible for the CBI to conduct a fair investigation. As such, this constitutes active interference in the judicial investigative process and may result in the subversion of justice. A sincere investigation by the CBI into these fake encounter cases has, for the first time, the potential to implicate many powerful politicians within Narendra Modi’s administration who have been involved in terrorising minorities in Gujarat.
Hence a strong action needs to be taken against the people behind the anonymous entities running the advertising campaign and as it is nothing but a tactic of subverting justice at the altar of manufactured public opinion. However, without the basic security and rule of law, no level of economic progress either lasts or earns the nation a global leadership status it may otherwise deserve.
Farzana Z Khan
Nagpur, M.S.