{"id":402,"date":"2004-12-11T15:46:26","date_gmt":"2004-12-11T19:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/12\/11\/panel-reviewing-gujarat-pogroms-cons"},"modified":"2004-12-11T15:46:26","modified_gmt":"2004-12-11T19:46:26","slug":"panel-reviewing-gujarat-pogroms-consider-using-cell-phone-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/12\/11\/panel-reviewing-gujarat-pogroms-consider-using-cell-phone-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Panel reviewing Gujarat pogroms consider using cell phone records"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A.K. Bhargav, Gujarat police chief and head of a committee established by the Supreme Court to investigate closed cases from the 2002 Gujarat pogroms against Muslims, said that he may use recordings of cell phone calls<\/A> in the investigation. He added that he would discuss it with his officers, and that cell phone records cannot be used as independent evidence. <\/FONT><\/P>
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The two CDs with more than 5 lakh entries have been lying with the Gujarat police and are now with the Nanavati-Shah riots panel. These have records of all cellphone calls made in Ahmedabad over the first five days of the riots which saw the worst massacres. Last week, an investigation by The Indian Express Staff Reporter Stavan Desai revealed for the first time details of the telephone calls. The six-part investigation also found that top police officers were in touch with some of the riot-accused; BJP MLA Maya Kodnani and VHP leader Jaideep Patel were in riot-hit areas and that top police officers knew ex-Congress MP Ehsan Jafri was being burnt but did not do anything to help him.<\/EM><\/FONT><\/P>
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Senior Supreme Court advocate Harish Salve, amicus curiae in the riots cases, had said that if the review committee did not take note of the cellphone records it would be violating the very purpose for which it had been set up.<\/EM><\/FONT><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A.K. Bhargav, Gujarat police chief and head of a committee established by the Supreme Court to investigate closed cases from the 2002 Gujarat pogroms against Muslims, said that he may use recordings of cell phone calls in the investigation. He added that he would discuss it with his officers, and that cell phone records cannot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}