Political criminals behind Pandya murder
Police and allied departments exist to control the criminals. But what if the government uses them for its work? Investigating agencies have identified the role of cops in communal incidents across the country. The most critical role the cops played in Gujarat massacre is more than evident now.
What would the dignity of the uniform come to, if the department of police gets used by politicians in this manner? This question has come up at a time when the investigation of the murder of Haren Pandya that happened in 2003, is in progress.
Haren Pandya was seen as a rebel leader of Gujarat BJP when Modi was the CM. Pandya had criticized Modi over Gujarat massacre. He said government had a direct role to play in this. Subsequent to this, Pandya was killed mysteriously on March 26, 2003. His bullet ridden body was discovered around Law Garden in Ahmedabad.
All the accused in Haren case arrested by CBI were released later. Gujarat court had reprimanded central investigating agency for not providing clear details on the number of bullets that were pumped into Pandya’s body, the place where he was killed and the number of assailants. Now the answer to why a political leader like Pandya’s case was ignored by the police department is getting very clear. How do the murderers book their own kin?
Prosecution witness Azam Khan who was the witness in Sohrabuddin and his wife Kausar Bi’s murder case, has submitted before the CBI court on Saturday that former Gujarat IPS officer D G Vanzara had instructed Sohrabuddin to kill Pandya, and that the latter had shared this information with Azam Khan. Vanzara had informed CBI of a conspiracy to kill Pandya.
But just a few days before his murder, Pandya’s security cover was withdrawn. This step by government later proved to be very dangerous for his life. There are obvious suspicions about political power working behind his murder. And from this, it is even easy to decipher who was behind Sohrabuddin’s murder as well. Police and political leaders needed to finish off people who knew the secret behind Haren Pandya’s murder. It can be understood that the Gujarat government met this agenda by putting the police force to use.
CBI had failed in investigating the Sohrabuddin case as well. The agency failed to appeal after Amit Shah and the others were discharged from the case. Now this statement by the witness is forcing the agencies to consider opening cases of Pandya and Sohrabuddin once again.
Pandya family has always raised concerns about the investigation not being conducted well into his murder case by the agencies. Family members say the murderers are still roaming free. Yet, the CBI is not willing to admit it took the investigation in wrong direction. The Gujarat massacre, followed by Pandya murder and the killing of Sohrabuddin and his men were carried out by a similar set of people.
If we can conclude that this force was part of the Gujarat government, it is also part of today’s central government as well. Hence, it is difficult for Pandya’s killers to be caught. Haren Pandya had given an interview to Outlook magazine about the public rally PM Modi had organized on February 27, 2002. He had mentioned Modi had instructed that the arsonists and miscreants should be dealt with and softly and that Hindus should be allowed to placate their anger.
Outlook had reported this fact later that a former minister had said his identity should not be revealed under any circumstances either as a BJP man or as a former minister in writing or even in casual sense. I will die even if you mention me as a BJP man or as a minister. In seven months post this interview, Pandya was killed. Vanzara in his resignation paper had said if he ‘drowned’; he’d ensure more people would go down with him thus indicating to the government that he had secured his game, issuing a note of caution to Modi and Shah. Now, the government cover around Pandya case can be undone soon, if the case is reinvestigated along with that of Sohrabuddin murder. Unless this happens, the truth will remain buried deep and to the convenience of many people behind it.
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Trump hopes for ceasefire progress in Russia-Ukraine war in Monday calls with Putin, Zelenskyy
Washington (AP): President Donald Trump is hoping separate phone calls Monday with Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will make progress toward a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine.
Trump expressed his hopes for a “productive day” Monday — and a ceasefire — in a social media post over the weekend. His effort will also include calls to NATO leaders.
Trump has struggled to end a war that began with Russia's invasion in February 2022, and that makes these conversations a serious test of his reputation as a dealmaker after having claimed he would quickly settle the conflict once he was back in the White House, if not even before he took office.
The Republican president is banking on the idea that his force of personality and personal history with Putin will be enough to break any impasse over a pause in the fighting.
“His sensibilities are that he's got to get on the phone with President Putin, and that is going to clear up some of the logjam and get us to the place that we need to get to,” said Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff. “I think it's going to be a very successful call.”
Still, there are fears that Trump has an affinity for Putin that could put Ukraine at a disadvantage with any agreements engineered by the U.S. government.
Bridget Brink said she resigned last month as the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine "because the policy since the beginning of the administration was to put pressure on the victim Ukraine, rather than on the aggressor, Russia.”
Brink said the sign that she needed to depart was an Oval Office meeting in February where Trump and his team openly berated Zelenskyy for not being sufficiently deferential to them.
“I believe that peace at any price is not peace at all,” Brink said. “It's appeasement and as we know from history, appeasement only leads to more war.”
Trump's frustration about the war had been building before his post Saturday on Truth Social about the coming calls, which he said would begin first with Putin at 10 a.m. Monday.
Trump said his discussion with Putin would focus on stopping the “bloodbath” of the war. It also will cover trade, a sign that Trump might be seeking to use financial incentives to broker some kind of agreement after Russia's invasion led to severe sanctions by the United States and its allies that have steadily eroded Moscow's ability to grow.
Trump's hope, according to the post, is that “a war that should have never happened will end.”
His treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, said Sunday on NBC's “Meet the Press” that Trump had made it clear that a failure by Putin to negotiate “in good faith” could lead to additional sanctions against Russia.
Bessent suggested the sanctions that began during the administration of Democratic President Joe Biden were inadequate because they did not stop Russia's oil revenues, due to concerns that doing so would increase U.S. prices. The United States sought to cap Russia's oil revenues while preserving the country's petroleum exports to limit the damage from the inflation that the war produced.
Putin recently rejected an offer by Zelenskyy to meet in-person in Turkey as an alternative to a 30-day ceasefire urged by Ukraine and its Western allies, including Washington.
Those talks ended on Friday after less than two hours, without a ceasefire in place. Still, both countries committed to exchange 1,000 prisoners of war each, with Ukraine's intelligence chief, Kyrylo Budanov, saying on Ukrainian television Saturday that the exchanges could happen as early as this week.
While wrapping up his four-day trip to the Middle East, Trump said on Friday that Putin had not gone to Turkey because Trump himself wasn't there.
“He and I will meet, and I think we'll solve it or maybe not,” Trump told reporters after boarding Air Force One. “At least we'll know. And if we don't solve it, it'll be very interesting.”
Zelenskyy met with Trump's vice president, JD Vance, and top diplomat, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in Rome on Sunday, as well as European leaders, intensifying his efforts before the Monday calls.
The Ukrainian president said on the social media site X that during his talks with the American officials, they discussed the negotiations in Turkey and that “the Russians sent a low level delegation of non-decision-makers.” He also said he stressed that Ukraine is engaged in ”real diplomacy” to have a ceasefire.
“We have also touched upon the need for sanctions against Russia, bilateral trade, defense cooperation, battlefield situation and upcoming prisoners exchange,” Zelenskyy said. “Pressure is needed against Russia until they are eager to stop the war.”
The push came as the Kremlin launched its largest drone barrage against Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022, firing a total of 273 exploding drones and decoys, Ukraine's air force said Sunday. The attacks targeted the country's Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk regions.
Witkoff spoke Sunday on ABC's “This Week” and Brink appeared on CBS' “Face the Nation.”
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