New Delhi: The investigative website, which earlier this month claimed that the Gujarat state government had subjected a young woman to illegal surveillance, has now uploaded a photograph of BJP's PM candidate Narendra Modi with the architect, who had come from Bangalore. The pictures were taken during the first edition of Kutch Sharad Utsav in October 2005, the website claimed. Madhuri reportedly worked as a guest coordinator during the festival
In the picture, Modi could be seen engaged in an animated conversation with IAS Officer Pradeep Sharma and the woman architect from Bangalore, who was named as 'Madhuri' by the portal to protect her identity. According to Sharma, Madhuri was also present in one of the tents on the night Modi was there, the website claims. Pradeep Sharma, who got suspended by the Gujarat government, had tried to corner the CM alleging that the phone of the woman was being tapped illegally at his behest. The Modi government recently appointed a two-member Commission of Inquiry headed by a retired woman judge of the Ahmedabad High Court.
The post in the website reads: "These pictures raise a serious question mark about the credibility of the explanation put forth both by Madhuri’s father Premlal Soni and the BJP that only Premalal was known to Modi and it was he who had requested the CM to ‘take care’ of his daughter in 2009 when the illegal snooping operation was mounted. The pictures show that Modi knew Madhuri for at least five years before his state machinery mounted an illegal round the clock vigil on the young woman in August 2009."
"It also confirms that part of the affidavit filed by Sharma in the Supreme Court in which he had alleged that Madhurihad visited Modi when he came to inaugurate the ‘Sharad Utsav’ in October 2005. Sharma served as the collector of Kachchh district between 2003 and 2005," the post further said. Gulail.com has released tapes of purported conversations between Amit Shah and suspended Gujarat police officer GL Singhal to allege "incident(s) of security/surveillance of a woman in the state of Gujarat in 2009".
According to the expose made earlier this month, the woman's movements and her conversations were being covered by the Gujarat "state Intelligence Bureau, the Crime Branch and the Anti-Terrorist Squad in August 2009 on oral orders, without any valid legal authorisation, and was meant only to serve the interests of someone whom Amit Shah, addressed as 'saheb'."
