This Article is From Apr 22, 2011

Gujarat police officer Sanjiv Bhatt's affidavit

New Delhi: A senior police officer in Gujarat has implicated Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the communal riots in 2002.  

Sanjiv Bhatt was posted in the Intelligence Department when India saw its worst communal riots since the partition killed 1200 people across Gujarat.

In an affidavit submitted to the Supreme Court, Mr Bhatt says that he attended a meeting on February 27, 2002 at which Mr Modi asked police officers to be "indifferent" to rioters and to the calls for help from areas under attack.

Here's the full text of his affidavit
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