Ahmedabad: The Navavati inquiry commission refused to trust call details supplied by former IPS officer Rahul Sharma, on the grounds that he could not furnish the CDs on which the data was originally stored.
The call details gathered by Sharma had stirred up a hornet’s nest because collusion between rioters and government officials and politicians was alleged after analysis of this data.
Sharma, who got the CDs from the private telecom companies in 2002, copied the data on to his personal computer and said he sent the original CDs to crime branch, provided the data to the commission, but not via the original CDs. The whereabouts of the original CDs are not known.
The commission’s refusal to accept call details as evidence was based on authenticity of the data. It said, “In the absence of the original CDs and non-production of the original data which he copied on his computer from the original CDs, the data contained in the CDs produced before the commission cannot be accepted as reliable and correct.”
The inquiry commission’s conclusion that Sharma’s CDs were not reliable was also based on the testimony of former state home minister Gordhan Zadaphia, who said that he had not made certain phone calls which the analysis of data from Sharma’s CDs reflected.
The call details gathered by Sharma had stirred up a hornet’s nest because collusion between rioters and government officials and politicians was alleged after analysis of this data.
Sharma, who got the CDs from the private telecom companies in 2002, copied the data on to his personal computer and said he sent the original CDs to crime branch, provided the data to the commission, but not via the original CDs. The whereabouts of the original CDs are not known.
The commission’s refusal to accept call details as evidence was based on authenticity of the data. It said, “In the absence of the original CDs and non-production of the original data which he copied on his computer from the original CDs, the data contained in the CDs produced before the commission cannot be accepted as reliable and correct.”
The inquiry commission’s conclusion that Sharma’s CDs were not reliable was also based on the testimony of former state home minister Gordhan Zadaphia, who said that he had not made certain phone calls which the analysis of data from Sharma’s CDs reflected.
