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NHRC views Tehelka tapes

New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has viewed the Tehelka exposé on Gujarat riots, aired on a private news channel recently, and is likely to take a decision on the future course of action on Thursday.

“The full seven-member Commission viewed the two-hour sting operation,” an NHRC official said.

Taking suo motu cognisance of the sting operation, the NHRC had asked the Aaj Tak news channel to submit the two tapes. An official said it might ask for the original tapes if the need arose.

The Tehelka magazine claimed that it had “irrefutable” evidence that the killings of Muslims post-Godhra train carnage were “not a spontaneous swell of anger but a genocide” planned and executed by top functionaries of the Sangh Parivar and state authorities “with the sanction” of Chief Minister Narendra Modi. The weekly claimed that it had done the sting operation over the last six months, talking to leaders including Godhra BJP MLA Haresh Bhatt, Shiv Sena leader Babu Bajrangi, who was earlier in the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, and VHP leaders Anil Patel and Dhawal Jayanti Patel to bring out the truth. — PTI

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