Panel gets CDs of Modi’s Godhra calls

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The mobile calls were made during the period between February 25, 2002 and March 4, 2002 in Ahmedabad and Godhra.

Ahmedabad: The crucial data regarding mobile phone calls made by high-profile individuals, including Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi during the 2002 post-Godhra communal riots in the state, were on Monday submitted to the Nanavati-Shah inquiry Commission, said advocate Mukul Sinha.

These mobile calls were made during the period between February 25, 2002 and March 4, 2002 in Ahmedabad and Godhra - which bore the maximum brunt of the communal riots.

The list also contains names of several top politicians, police officials and IAS officers, Sinha said.

The data was sourced from CDs submitted to the Commission by the then superintendent of police Rahul Sharma (now a CBI official in Gandhinagar) a couple of years ago.

Sinha, who represents a section of riot-affected families, said the CDs contain very "valuable information" regarding movement and calls made by all persons, owning mobile phones and could directly throw light on conduct of political leaders, top police brass and others responsible for maintaining law and order during the riots.

"The print outs of mobile phone calls contain only that information which was supplied by the mobile companies without any attempt to identify the caller or called parties," Sinha said in a statement to the Commission.

"We have also submitted an analysis of calls made by a top police official, who was the DCP of Zone-4 of Ahmedabad city on February 28, 2002 in a sealed cover to the Commission alongwith the print outs," Sinha said.

"In the names disclosed in the list of calls made by the police official, it can be prima facie established that he was in constant touch with leaders of VHP, BJP and the accused in Naroda village and Naroda Patiya cases (where minority community members were massacred in large numbers in Ahmedabad) and therefore his conduct is not beyond doubts," he said.

"Even this identification of the names of callers or called parties made by this single police officer would prima facie show the relevance of the telephone call data," Sinha added.