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PRESS TRUST OF INDIA Ahmedabad, Apr 22: The post-Godhra riots have come to haunt Narendra Modi with a senior IPS officer alleging that the Gujarat chief minister had allowed Hindus to “vent their anger” against Muslims to “teach them a lesson” during the 2002 communal riots.“In his affidavit in the Supreme Court, IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt has said that the chief minister in a meeting held on February 27, 2002 expressed the view that Hindus be allowed to vent out their anger,” sources close to him said here Friday referring to the affidavit in the Zakia Jaffery case.“I filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court on April 14. This is regarding the investigation being done by the Special Investigation Team (SIT),” Bhatt said, but declined to divulge its contents.The officer, who was posted as DCP at the State Intelligence Bureau (SIB) during the 2002 riots, said in the affidavit that he had attended the February 27 meeting called by Modi where he asked officers to be “indifferent” to the riot

GNS Srinagar: The Ministry of Home Affairs proposal on Dogra Certificate has put the Minister for Revenue in Jammu and Kashmir, Raman Bhalla, in an embarrassing situation. The MHA proposal clearly points out that so far as Jammu and Kashmir is concerned the eligibility conditions (as per existing rules) have been relaxed for Kashmir region and Leh and Ladakh regions only. This has raised a question mark as to how Bhalla, who issued the Dogra Certificate order, claimed recruitments for “Jammu province irrespective of caste, colour and creed” when nothing like that is mentioned in the rules. This is yet another time when a claim by Bhalla on the issue has been proved wrong. Initially, Bhalla went on record saying the Dogra Certificate was aimed at facilitating the recruitment of the people of Jammu in Army’s Dogra Regiment. But the claim embarrassed the state government when Army refuted that it gave any preference on the basis of Dogra Certificate in its recruitments. Later, the “Dogra

GNS Reporter:A meeting of PDP Youth Wing was held in PDP office Gandhi Nagar under the Chairmanship of Rajinder Manhas, Vice President PDP Youth Wing. While speaking on the occasion Mr. Manhas lambasted the State Government on corruption. He said that there is every where corruption in every sphere of life. The present glaring example is cash for vote by BJP MLAs who voted in favour of Congress/NC candidates in recent Council Election with the connivance of Omar led Coalition Government. Due to this the people have lost faith on politicians in general and on NC-Congress-BJP in particular. Mr Nadeem Khan, General Secretary while addressing the gathering said that Youth of the State are frustrated due to the wrong policies of present regime. Inspite of making tall promises by NC Government nothing has been done to readdress the grievances of the Youth. Similarly there is great resentment amongst the Student community. He stressed upon the Youth to strengthen the PDP as it is the only