GUJARAT POLICE OFFICIAL ARRESTED FOR 2002 VIOLENCE

The Supreme Court appointed probe team on February 8 arrested K.G. Erda, a senior Gujarat police official,

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The Supreme Court appointed probe team on February 8 arrested K.G. Erda, a senior Gujarat police official, for a massacre during the infamous Gujarat genocide 2002. Special Investigation Team (SIT) chief R.K. Raghavan said Erda was arrested for the violence at Gulbarg Society that left 35 people, including former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, dead. Erda, currently Valsad district superintendent of police, was posted at Meghaninagar police station in Ahmedabad when the March 1, 2002, incident took place. Human rights organisations are of the view that timely police intervention could have contained the killing mob early on.