Links in the media-police scam: Sanjeev Bhatt, N.

Ram, Gurumurthy, Jethmalani, Cho: Targets Sonia G and Narendra Modi

By S Gurumurthy 11 Aug 2011 02:03:00 AM IST Sohrabuddin: Interrogating the media The facts unfolded here reveal a conspiracy a hostile political strategy to communalise, thus weaponise, an illegal encounter killing to demonise a selected State; to oust its leader, outside ballot process. That State is the least sinner in fake encounters, just one in a hundred. Yet, its leader is vilified as Mauth Ka Saudagar [merchant of death]. So, the selected States leader is the target, not fake encounters as evil. The State selected? Needs no guess. It is Gujarat, certified as the best governed, most prosperous. The leader targeted? Needs no mention. Narendra Modi, known as the cleanest, also the ablest. The National Human Rights Commissions list of 440 fake encounters from 2002 to 2007 under inquest shows the share of Gujarat as just 5, almost the lowest. Uttar Pradesh tops the list with 231, followed by Rajasthan 33, Maharashtra 31, Delhi 26, Andhra Pradesh 22, Uttaranchal 19, Assam 12, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka 10 each, Tamil Nadu 9, West Bengal 8, Bihar and Haryana 6 each. More. At 7.25 am, on 8.8.2011, the NewX channel reported a further 120 fake encounter deaths in UP after 2007! Yet, from 2006, the secular media has been obsessed with, not the most guilty in encounter sins, but the least Gujarat; and with only one of the 440 encounters of Syed Sohrabuddin in Gujarat, none from the rest. Baying for Modis scalp, the media relentlessly pursued Sohrabuddins case, charged Gujarat with killing him [and his wife, Kausar Bi] only because of his religion. It made Sohrabuddin the poster boy of secularism, insisted on CBI probe to cover Amit Shah, Gujarat Home Minister then, and Modi himself. The judiciary too chose for CBI probe only Sohrabuddins case out of the 440 encounters. Later when CBI misused the court mandate, resorted to patent illegalities to fix Shah and target Gujarat and Modi, the media even seemed relieved. Interrogatories to secular media on its role in the Sohrabuddin case are overdue. Here are some.Did the media even hint that, like Sohrabuddins in Gujarat, there were 435 other encounters outside, being inquired into by NHRC? No. And did it ever ask for CBI probe into them? No. Did it ever tell the true facts about Sohrabuddin, other than about his religion, like that he was a dreaded criminal, a crony of Sharif Khan, Dawood Ibrahims Gujarat head; or that he was arms carrier for ISI; or that a huge cache of 24 AK-47s, 22 grenades, 5250 rounds of AK-47 ammunition, and 81 magazines, adequate for a 1993 Mumbai blast were recovered from his farm house; or that he served a 5-year jail term under terror law? Never. Did it ever say that he had 21 big crime cases against him two, under anti-terror law and nine, under Arms and Explosives law in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan? No. Did it even remotely hint that he had had connections with LTTEs drug peddlers or that he contract-murdered in broad day light in Chennai an advocate who had tipped off the Narcotic Control Bureau about LTTE or that he killed a gangster, Karim Lala, in Udaipur in December

2004 and took over his extortion business in Rajasthan for which Rajasthan was after him? Never, ever. In contrast, one magazine even profiled him as a Muslim businessman! The media hid Sohrabuddins criminality and sanitised him as Modis victim. The Congress party improved it. It made him the main issue in the 2007 Gujarat Assembly elections, thus adding communal poison to an illegal killing to make it deadly. Sonia Gandhi, adopting Sohrabuddin as the partys poster boy, charged Narendra Modi as Mauth Ka Saudagar. The media even saw the use of Sohrabuddin an extortionist, arms-carrier, a murderer and the point man of Dawood in the elections as strategic. Now begins the sickening story of how the CBI subverted the Sohrabuddin probe to suit Congress partys politics. Not just BJP governments in Gujarat and Rajasthan, the Congress government in AP, headed by Sonia Gandhis pet YS Rajasekara Reddy then, too was deeply involved in the killing. Did the media ever highlight this fact? No. If it had, the encounter would lose its all-BJP read communal character; with the Congress-mix, the killing would become secular! The Gujarat police probe in the Sohrabuddin case led by Geetha Johri, an honest police officer, showed that seven AP police officials, including two drivers, were involved in the offence; that one Kalmuddin, had invited the Sohrabuddin couple to Hyderabad; that after their stay Sohrabuddin couple boarded a bus to Sangli; that the AP and Gujarat police officials, acting in concert, intercepted the bus, disembarked the couple, took them in their vehicles; the caravan which included two Tata Sumo vehicles used by AP police reached Ahmedabad where the couple were killed. The Gujarat CID probe on the encounter in Hyderabad was moving right, but slowly, when the CBI took over the case in January 2010. The CBI charge sheet of 23 July 2010 itself admits that AP police were party to the offence. But where did the Gujarat CID probe hit the roadblock in Hyderabad? Geetha Johri, who uncovered the fake encounter, arrested her own colleagues, had sought the cooperation of Balwinder Singh, the Commissioner of Police at Hyderabad then, for three purposes: one, to question the AP police officials who had assisted the Gujarat police; two, to trace the missing Vehicle Entry Register of the AP IPS Officers Mess for the period August 2005 to May 2006 that would identify the two Tata Sumo vehicles, their drivers and also AP officials who went in them all the way to Ahmedabad; three, to track down Kalimuddin, who hosted Sohrabuddin at Hyderabad. But Balwinder Singh would not co-operate. QED: the Congress was determined not to expose its role in the sin. See what it did instead. Who did it choose to head the CBI probe? Balwinder Singh! The very officer who shielded the AP police officials now heads the CBI to probe the role of the very AP Congress? Police! Shocked? It is just the beginning, with more shocks to come. http://expressbuzz.com/edition/print.aspx?artid=303033 Links in the media-police scam: Sanjeev Bhatt, N. Ram, Gurumurthy, Jethmalani, Cho: Targets Sonia G and Narendra Modi

Sanjeev Bhatt, Police Officer, Gujarat.

A developing media scandal in the wake of N. Rams commie take-over of The Hindu newspaper called Xinhua tabloid What is the link between Gujarat police officer Sanjeev Bhatt and N. Ram? The concerned person Sonia Gandhi (through Ahmad Patel)? ISI secular media is seeking to divert attention by citing the names of S. Gurumurthy, Ram Jethmalani and Cho. Gurumurthy should clarify the email sent by him to N. Ram (mentioned in Murali's Hindu obituary letter of Aug. 10, 2011). It is time NDTV and other ISI secular media are told by Gurumurthy and others that the appointment of an American citizen as editor of The Hindu is an insult to national pride and professionalism in the Fourth Estate in India. kalyanaraman Excerpts from N. Muralis Hindu obituary letter of Aug. 10, 2011 [quote]Two recent events have brought this to the fore. The first is the coverage or non coverage of the 2G scam and turning The Hindu into a mouthpiece of accused A.Raja, going out of the way to organize an interview with him and publishing it on the day of his resignation. The second and most recent incident has been brought out by the Gujarat police officer Sanjeev Bhatt in his affidavit filed in the Supreme Court which shows Ram as being the recipient of an email on a matter as sensitive and serious as the investigation and related matters of post Godhra

2002 riots in Gujarat. Sanjeev Bhatt has annexed an email to his affidavit which is very revealing. In that email that S. Gurumurthy sent to Ram on February 17, 2010, he had annexed a note on the investigations into the Gujarat riots case. Here is the note, I would like you to go through it that you understand the issues before you talk to the person concerned, goes the email. We all know who the person concerned that Ram was supposed to talk to is. [unquote] Gujarat riots cases compromised? Allegations of leaks via emails NDTV Correspondent, Updated: August 09, 2011 17:05 IST New Delhi: Has the legal process in the Gujarat riot cases been compromised? Senior police officer Sanjiv R Bhatt has told the Supreme Court that the Gujarat government, which is meant to prosecute those accused of the communal riots of 2002, has actually been leaking information for use in their defence. Mr Bhatt has also accused Chief Minister Narendra Modi of asking policemen to ignore calls for help during the riots, which killed 1200 people. In an affidavit filed in the Supreme Court, Mr Bhatt has included emails that allegedly show how the state government was sharing information with the lawyers of some of those accused in the riots. A Special Investigation Team (SIT) was appointed a few years ago by the Supreme Court to investigate the riots. Mr Bhatt says he has emails that show classified parts of the SIT were being emailed to Tushar Mehta, who is the Additional Advocate General of Gujarat. According to the policeman, Mr Mehta, who is meant to be handling the prosecution in different cases related to the riots, then forwarded emails containing the SIT excerpts to Gurumurthy Swaminathan, who is an RSS ideologue. Mr Gurumurthy then forwarded the information to lawyer Ram Jethmalani and his son, Mahesh, who represents former state Home Minister Amit Shah. Along with other ministers and Mr Modi, Mr Shah is being investigated for whether they misused government machinery during the riots. Mr Mehta also shared the information, according to Mr Bhatt's affidavit, with lawyers for others accused in the riots. Mr Mehta and Mr Bhatt were close friends. The lawyer allegedly gave the policeman access to his mail because they were planning family vacations together. On Friday evening, Mahesh Jethmalani said, "I have not appeared in the trial court in any Gujarat riots case for any accused. I have been representing an accused in the Supreme Court and I have received no information from either Mr Gurumurthy or Mr Tushar Mehta that has helped my case in the Supreme Court."

Mr Gurumurthy also said he "has not received the SIT report." Mr Bhatt has made headlines in the last few months after he told the Supreme Court that he attended a meeting on February 27, 2002 which was chaired by Chief Minister Narendra Modi. 59 people had been killed by now in a train near Godhra; most of them were kar-sevaks on their way back from Ayodhya. Communal tension was surging through the state. Mr Bhatt was posted with the State Intelligence Bureau at the time. He says the Chief Minister told the policemen to remain indifferent to calls of help from those being attacked by rioters. Mr Bhatt recalls Mr Modi saying that it was imperative for Hindus to be allowed to 'vent out their anger.' Mr Modi and other policemen who attended the meeting have said Mr Bhatt was not present. Mr Bhatt claims that he shared this information with the SIT set up by the Supreme Court to investigate the riots. The SIT, he says, showed little interest on following up on his allegations. A few months ago, a criminal case was filed against Mr Bhatt by another police officer who says Mr Bhatt forced him to testify that Mr Bhatt attended Mr Modi's meeting with policemen in February 2002. Mr Bhatt wants his case to be transferred out of Gujarat. Slamming the Modi government over Mr Bhatt's claims in his affidavit, state Congress president Arjun Modhvadiya said today, "That there was complicity of the Narendra Modi government machinery in riots is well known and well documented. Its officials were in nexus with the accused in the riots. But with the Supreme Court-appointed SIT coming under a cloud, it's a serious matter. These mails have shown that they were also part of the nexus. Since it's an SIT appointed by the Supreme Court, I am hopeful that the apex court will look into it." Gujarat government spokesperson Jaynarayan Vyas, however, refused to comment on the issue. "We won't comment on this as the matter is sub judice," he said. http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/gujarat-riots-cases-compromised-allegations-of-leaks-viaemails-124613 http://epaper.hindustantimes.com/PUBLICATIONS/HT/HM/2011/08/09/ArticleHtmls/GULBER G-MASSACRE-Gujarat-cops-affidavit-sheds-fresh-light-09082011009003.shtml?Mode=1

GULBERG MASSACRE - Gujarat cop's affidavit sheds fresh light on case GULBERG MASSACRE - Gujarat cop's affidavit sheds fresh light on case

In an affidavit filed in the Supreme Court, Gujarat police officer Sanjiv Bhatt has indicated that N Ram, editorin-chief of the daily The Hindu, had offered to brief an unidentified person on matters related to the 2002 Gulberg Society massacre, on a request from Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ideologue S Gurumurthy. A supplementary affidavitfiled on July 26 by Bhatt, a 1988 batch IPS officer, is based on emails exchanged between Tushar Mehta, Gujarat's additional advocategeneral,Gurumurthy,former GujarathomeministerAmitShah and officials in the CM's office. In an email, attached as an annexure in Bhatt's supplementary affidavit, Gurumurthy writes to Ram on February 17, 2010: Dear Ram, This refers to our telephonic talk after Cho (Cho Ramaswamy, editor of Tamil magazine Thuglak) spoke to you and me. Here is the note I would like you to go through so that you understand before you talk to the person. In the two-page note attached to the mail, Gurumurthy praised Raghavan's confidential reports that were submitted to the SC and trashed the widow of Congress MP Ehsan Jaffri, who was killed, for trying to get a case registeredagainstNarendraModi. Ram told HT he did not recall any exchange with Gurumurthy. After explaining the email and the attached note, HT asked Ram whether he knew who was the unnamed person being referred to in the mail. Ram said: I don't remember anything you are saying. I never talked to Cho or anybody regarding the Gujarat riots. Asked whether he recalled any conversation with Raghavan about his investigations, Ram said: No, never. He is a close family friend and writes for our publications, but we never discussed anything about the Gujarat riots. Gurumurthy initially agreed to respond to the allegations. Later he changed his mind and said: I don'twanttorespondtoanything. You are nobody to question me. http://www.hindustantimes.com/Bhatt-s-affidavit-sheds-fresh-light-on-Gulberg-case/Article1730982.aspx Bhatt vs Gujarat govt: Hacked email vs email - Express India Bhatt vs Gujarat govt: Hacked email vs email Express news service Posted: Aug 06, 2011 at 0259 hrs New Delhi, Ahmedabad Shortly before the Gujarat government is to file an affidavit in the Supreme Court to defend two unusual emails found in Additional Advocate General Tushar Mehtas personal mail account, the law officer has gone ahead and charged his former friend and IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt under the Information Technology Act with hacking his personal mail. It was Bhatt who approached the SC about the two mails which, he claimed, were from an insider in the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team who was leaking vital investigation details of the 2002 post-Godhra riots probe to the accused through Mehta. Bhatt was already in trouble then with a criminal case lodged against him by a Gujarat police

constable K D Pant who accused the IPS officer of putting pressure on him to testify against Chief Minister Narendra Modi. While Bhatt sought a CBI inquiry into Pants complaint in the SC, he also described at length how he stumbled upon two very unusual mails sent from the Godhra SITs official id (sit.godhracases@gmail.com) while checking travel details of a family holiday together. In the SC petition, he claims to have got access with Mehtas permission. But Mehta countered in a note sent to The Indian Express that Bhatt was merely trying to mislead the court. He defended that both mails, sent on September 14, 2009, pertained to status reports on the preliminary enquiry and investigation done in a entirely different case the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh-Kauserbi fake encounter case and had nothing to do with the Godhra case. This, he said would be the main thrust of an affidavit Gujarat intends to filed in the SC against Bhatts allegations of a leak within the SIT. Mehta, however, did not make his position clear on a second claim by Bhatt that he had found several other mails too. This, he alleged, revealed that an unholy nexus was at work. These mails showed correspondence between S Gurumurthy, the RSS ideologue, former home minister Amit Shah, his counsel Ram Jethamalani and Mahesh Jethmalani, in addition to officials from the Gujarat Home Department like Home Secretary G C Murmu, Under Secretary Vijay Badheka and others. Another bunch of mails, besides the 2002 riot cases, had also shown strategies devised for the legal defence in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Ishrat Jahan encounter killing cases, Bhatt claimed. There was also an email from Gurumurthy forwarded to Modi following the latters interrogation by the SIT in connection with the Gulberg society massacre case, he claimed, adding that Gurumurthy had drafted the memorandum submitted to the President and Prime minister by BJP leaders like L K Advani and others. Another mail annexed is to Mahesh and Ram Jethmalani and Amit Shah in which Gurumurthy says that it is distinctly possible that SIT may submit a wishy washy report , which could point to commissions and omissions not amounting to crime, it could lead to a huge debate again on Modi, and therefore the Zakia Jaffri complaint must be got quashed. Bhatt also claims that his mails have been hacked, too. He has filed a complaint in the Economic Offences Wing against agents of the Gujarat administrative machinery. Among those are his e-mail exchanges with Gujarat Leader of the Opposition Shakti Singh Gohil, Teesta Setalwad, one of the main complainants in the post-Godhra riot cases, activists Shabnam Hashmi and Cedric Prakash and fellow IPS officer Rahul Sharma. In one of the mails with Gohil, Bhatt shares details of an affidavit he had filed before the SIT. He

adds that a backgrounder and an additional note has also been sent. He mentions how he is eagerly awaiting both the packages and the Blackberry. IPS officer accused of hacking e-mail - Hindustan Times HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times Email Author Ahmedabad, August 06, 2011 First Published: 01:10 IST(6/8/2011) Last Updated: 01:48 IST(6/8/2011) IPS officer accused of hacking e-mail Gujarat additional advocate general Tushar Mehta has accused IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt of hacking his e-mail. On Friday, Mehta filed a complaint with the police against Bhatt, a close family friend, who had accused CM Narendra Modi of complicity in the 2002 riots. "We have received a complaint from Mehta, the police will investigate the case," said Sudhir Sinha, police commissioner, Ahmedabad. Bhatt was not available for comment. On July 26, in a petition filed before the Supreme Court, Bhatt said he had "chanced upon" two e-mails Mehta received from the Special Investigation Team (SIT). The SIT was constituted by the court to reinvestigate nine gruesome massacres during the 2002 riots. "It was apparent that someone within the SIT was leaking confidential details," he stated in the petition. The same day, Bhatt submitted a 19-page affidavit before the court and produced the two e-mails Mehta received from the SIT. In the affidavit, he tried to establish how the Modi government was working to subvert the SIT investigation. As proof, he produced e-mails exchanged between Mehta, former state home minister Amit Shah, Modis additional principal secretary GC Murmu, home department officials, RSS ideologue S Gurumurthy and lawyers Ram Jethmalani and Mahesh Jethmalani. The mails pertained to the riots cases, SIT and fake encounters. http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/Print/729930.aspx IndlawNews Additional AG of Gujarat lodges FIR against IPS officer 8/5/2011 5.8.2011 (UNI) Gujarats Additional Advocate General Tushar Mehta has lodged an e-mail hacking case against controversial IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt at Vastrapur police station here

today. Police has filed the FIR under cyber crime charges. City Police Commissioner Sudhir Sinha confirmed that a complaint has been lodged against Mr Bhatt by Mr Mehta. Coincidentally, both Mr Bhatt and Mr Mehta are childhood friends and have decades-old family ties. Mr Bhatt told UNI that he had heard about the complaint but he is yet to see the copy of it. But he maintained that he has explained how he got hold of the e-mails in his affidavit before the apex court. In his petition before the Supreme Court last month, Mr Bhatt, who has accused Chief Minister Narendra Modi of misusing official machinery during the 2002 post-Godhra riots, had said he chanced upon two unusual e-mails from the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the riots cases in the personal mail account of Mr Mehta. The mails were received from the address sit.godhracases@gmail.com, the official e-mail address of the SIT. On studying the said two e-mails it was very apparent to the petitioner that someone from within the SIT was leaking very sensitive and confidential details pertaining to the ongoing investigations being conducted by the SIT, Mr Bhatt said in his petition. UNI Sanjeev Bhatt alleges details of SIT probe on Guj riots leaked Aug 5, 2011 Ahmedabad: IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt, who has accused Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi of misusing state machinery during 2002 post-Godhra riots, has alleged that SIT probe details on riot cases were leaked to a top law officer of the state government. Bhatt, in his 19-page supplementary affidavit filed before the Supreme Court last week, alleged that someone from within the Special Investigation Team (SIT) was leaking sensitive and confidential details related to investigations conducted by it to Additional Advocate General Tushar Mehta. Bhatt, an Inspector General-rank officer, alleged in the affidavit that he had seen e-mails from the SIT probing the riots cases in the personal mail account of Mehta. Mehta on his part lodged a complaint with the state cyber cell accusing Bhatt of hacking his emails, police said. A case has been registered against IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt after a complaint was lodged against him by the Additional Advocate General of Gujarat High Court accusing him of hacking

his e-mails, Joint Commissioner of Police of sector-I Ajay Tomar said. An FIR has been registered (under the Information Technology Act-2008) at the Vastrapur police station, and investigations are underway, another police official said. Incidentally, Bhatt and Mehta have been family friends since long. Mehta alleged that Bhatt hacked his e-mail and accessed it and passed on the information to others also. These communications contain my personal, official, and legal correspondences which are not only unauthorisedly seen by Bhatt but shared by him with others for ulterior motive, which, apart from being criminal offences, grossly violates my right of privacy, Mehta said in the complaint. I have reasons to believe that he must have taken hard and soft copies of my emails and he is using the same out of contact for an ulterior motive and with an intention of tarnishing my reputation, he said. Bhatt had earlier filed a petition in the Supreme Court a couple of months back accusing Modi of misusing state machinery against Muslims during the post-Godhra riots. I have never given Bhatt my password and never authorised him to see my emails. Without my permission he has accessed my emails, passwords and has altered, compromised and tempered my mail accounts committing gross violation of law, he said. Bhatt in his affidavit filed in the Supreme Court also alleged that Tushar Mehta used to receive confidential information regarding the investigation conducted by the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the complaint against Modi and others. Bhatt in his affidavit said that in September 2009 onwards, he was time and again required to access the e-mail account of Mehta. He said he came across several e-mail exchanges that allegedly were clearly indicative of an unholy nexus and illegal complicity between high functionaries of Gujarat and other extraneous political entities, in the on-going cover up operations aimed at shielding powerful persons from prosecution for alleged heinous crimes. PTI

http://www.firstpost.com/fwire/sanjeev-bhatt-alleges-details-of-sit-probe-on-guj-riots-leaked55401.html Godhra riots: Call for CBI probe gets louder : West: India Today

Godhra riots: Call for CBI probe gets louder Poornima Joshi | New Delhi, August 5, 2011 | 11:39 Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi The clandestine operation to use evidence in the Gujarat riot cases not to book the guilty but to help them frame their defense once again highlights the need appointment of an independent prosecuting agency such as the CBI. As IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt's affidavit the Supreme court shows, the advocate general of Gujarat - Tushar Mehta - sent reports of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) in the nine Gujarat riot cases to RSS ideologue S. Gurumurthy. Gurumurthy was, in turn, framing the BJP's political strategy to counter public opinion against chief minister Narendra Modi and the state government. He was also helping the accused frame their defence. According to R. K. Shah, the special public prosecutor who resigned from the Gulbarga Society case last year, such activities have created an atmosphere of suspicion Gujarat. "There is certainly an atmosphere in Gujarat that does not lend itself to fairness... I resigned as special public prosecutor from the Gulbarga case. Actually, it is proper for me to elaborate further," Shah said, over the phone from Ahmedabad. Shah said the possibility of the victims getting justice in such an atmosphere is "highly remote". No wonder then that the apex court did give copies of amicus curiae Raju Ramachandran's report about CM Narendra Modi and other high state functionaries to either the SIT or the state government. A special bench of justices D.K. Jain, P. Sathasivam and Aftab Alam declined SIT chief R. K. Raghavan's request to share the report with his team. The bench dismissed his plea with an assurance that he would be supplied with a copy at the "appropriate time". The state government, too, protested about not getting the amicus curiae's report, presented to the bench in a sealed cover. As Bhatt's affidavit highlights, the secret status of investigations is freely used by RSS ideologues as well as law officers in Gujarat to frame strategies for the ruling party, the BJP, as well as for the accused. That is why Ahmedabad-based senior advocate and activist Mukul Sinha has been arguing for over a year now that the SIT should be disbanded and the investigation and prosecution in the Gujarat riot cases should be handed over to the CBI with immediate effect. "We have believed right from the beginning that the Gujarat investigations and prosecution should have been carried out by an independent agency such as the CBI. The SIT is in cahoots with the state government to save the accused rather than punish the guilty," Sinha said. According to senior advocate in the SC, Colin Gonsalves, it is a travesty of justice that the evidence that should have been used to nail the guilty in the Gujarat riots is, instead, being used to help them. "If the Gujarat law officers are using SIT inquiries to help the accused, it strengthens the case for

an independent prosecuting agency to take over the riot cases. The SIT was set up to deliver justice to the victims, not to help the accused," Gonsalves said. Relief for Narendra Modi as SC doesn't take on record IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt's affidavit D. P. Bhattacharya | Ahmedabad, May 6, 2011 | 11:38 IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt alleged that during the 2002 communal riots in Gujarat, CM Narendra Modi or Narendra Modi got a breather from the Supreme Court on Thursday. The apex court decided not to take on record the controversial affidavit filed by Sanjiv Bhatt against the Gujarat chief minister. The IPS officer has alleged that Modi took an anti-minority stand after the 2002 Godhra riots. The apex court also referred the report filed by the special investigation team, appointed by it to probe the riots, to the amicus curiae - senior advocate Raju Ramachandran. The police had on Wednesday withdrawn three out of five policemen provided to Bhatt as security, a day after it had enhanced the officer's security from one to five personnel, attributing the scale of enhancement to a mistake. The state government sought to make capital of the apex court's order. While Bhatt said since he was not a party in the Zakia Jafri case, in which he had filed the affidavit, the state government issued a media release, underlining the development. Sharpening its attack on Bhatt the release said: "It is learnt that Bhatt has not joined the place of posting at the Junagadh SRP training school. In spite of repeated directions by the DGP to resume duties he has been neglecting his responsibilities." The apex court also allowed Ramachandran to interact with any witness examined by the SIT or any other person, to make an independent assessment. - With inputs from Mail Today Bureau, New Delhi http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/articlePrint.jsp?aid=137268 Friends turn foes? FIR against Sanjeev Bhatt for hacking additional AG's email www.daily.bhaskar.com Friends turn foes? FIR against Sanjeev Bhatt for hacking additional AG's email

Source: DNA | Last Updated 06:13(06/08/11) Ahmedabad: It is nothing short of a Bollywood thriller plot. A cop turns against the state and holds the most powerful person of the state responsible for communal carnage. His best friend incidentally takes up the brief from the state government.

The Kahani me twist starts from here. The friends are now baying for each other's emails! Something similar is unfurling in real life in Ahmedabad. In what seems to be a fall-out of the sensational additional affidavit filed by IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt in the Supreme Court; state's additional advocate general Tushar Mehta has filed a complaint accusing Bhatt of hacking into his mail and changing the password. An FIR in this connection was filed with the Vastrapur police, on Friday. Countering Bhatt's claim that he accessed Mehta's email with his permission, the additional advocate general in his FIR said that he never gave Bhatt the password of his mail id. Mehta has accused Bhatt of accessing his mails without his permission, changing the password and tampering with his mail account. He alleged that because of this he could not access his email account for long. According to his complaint, Mehta was alerted that his email id had been hacked from Bhatt's id (sanjivbhattips@gmail.com). Joint director, civil defence, PB Gondia wrote a letter to Mehta saying that while he (Gondia) was working on his official computer, he got some mails stating that Mehta's mail was hacked from Bhatt's id . Bhatt in his affidavit to the apex court had mentioned that he is an IPS officer and that Section 64 (b) of the Bombay Police Act 1951, casts a mandatory duty on him to obtain intelligence concerning the commission of cognisable offences or design to commit such offences. Bhatt, however, had mentioned in his affidavit that Mehta was aware that he was securing the evidentiary intelligence concerning the 'illegal machinations' of the state of Gujarat. Mehta and Bhatt were close family friends and during one of their visit to Goa, Mehta gave the details of his email account to Bhatt to check the availability of the online reservations and during this time in 2009, he saw some unusual emails in Mehta's email account and came to know that information from the SIT have been leaked to Mehta. Cop says post-Godhra riots report leaked to RSS man to help accused plan defence : West: India Today Cop says post-Godhra riots report leaked to RSS man to help accused plan defence Poornima Joshi/Gyanant Singh | New Delhi, August 5, 2011 | 11:17 A file photo of the 2002 post-Godhra riots. Gujarat IPS officer Sanjiv R. Bhatt has alleged in an affidavit before the Supreme Court that probe reports on the 2002 post-Godhra riot cases were forwarded by a state government law officer to an RSS man who used them to help riot-accused chalk out their defence. Bhatt has annexed a number of hacked emails to buttress his charge that politicians in connivance with state government functionaries were engaged in a cover-up operation to secretly help the accused in riot cases.

In his affidavit, Bhatt has pointed out that email exchanges showed that reports by the apex court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) with regard to the probe into nine major cases of riots were sent to additional advocate general Tushar Mehta last year from a state government email. Mehta allegedly forwarded the reports - purportedly sent to him by under secretary (home) Vijay Badekha - to RSS ideologue Gurumurthy Swaminathan who in turn prepared a note on the basis of the reports and sent it to lawyers appearing for the accused before the Supreme Court. Gurumurthy, on his part, denied being part of any such operation. "I have never received any email pertaining to the ongoing SIT probe from Tushar Mehta or anyone," he said.

Click here to Enlarge He laughed when asked whether he was a recipient of information about the sensitive probe that threatens chief minister Narendra Modi. "Reports to the contrary are mere concoctions. I cannot recollect having received any such email," he added. Bhatt, meanwhile, has annexed another series of emails showing an attempt to help a chargesheeted accused in the Gulbarga Society massacre allegedly with the connivance or support of CM Modi himself. The IPS officer alleged that Mehta had himself prepared a draft petition for the chargesheeted accused who had approached the apex court for relief and had even kept the chief minister's office in the loop. Pointing to the email exchanges, Bhatt said Mehta had sent a draft petition - to be filed before the SC - to the lawyers of the chargesheeted accused in Delhi on April 4, 2010. The help did not end with this. Mehta prepared a reply affidavit to be filed before the apex court on behalf of the Gulbarga accused and forwarded a copy to the principal secretary to the chief minister on April 15, 2010. Mehta also forwarded a copy of the petition and the affidavit by the accused to Gurumurthy. The email exchanges, which Bhatt claimed to have hacked as part of his duty to obtain intelligence with regard to commission of offences, showed that most affidavits filed on behalf of the state government passed through Gurumurthy. "The most objectionable aspect is that Sri Tushar Mehta has on one hand drafted the affidavit to be filed by the accused and on the other hand has also prepared the state's affidavit in reply to the accused's affidavit," Bhatt said in his affidavit. Bhatt has further pointed to an email sent to N. Ram of the Hindu imputing motives on judges for orders passed against Gujarat by the apex court. He alleged that the note on Gujarat cases was sent to Ram by Gurumurthy on February 17, 2010.

"This requires to be viewed seriously by this Hon'ble Court," he said in his affidavit. The email to Ram particularly referred to a direction by the court to the SIT to probe into a complaint by Zakia Jafri who alleged that the riots took place pursuant to a conspiracy involving Modi, his cabinet colleagues and several government functionaries in the state. Ram, on his part, said he did not remember any such email exchange and expressed surprise over the mention. "I have no recollection of any such email," Ram said. Bhatt - a 1988 Gujarat-cadre IPS officer - who has raised questions on the impartiality of trial in riot and encounter cases in Gujarat, claimed that the hacked email exchanges showed that government officers, lawyers and politicians were all hand-in-glove. He pointed out that even a political memorandum prepared to be submitted to President Pratibha Patil was forwarded by former minister of state for home Amit Shah to the additional advocate general. The email showed that the law officer was actively involved in drafting of a political memorandum demanding investigation against Teesta Setalvad and her organisation. The Sangh ideologue had prepared the memorandum to be given to the President by a delegation comprising senior BJP leaders L. K. Advani, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley and Nitin Gadkari. Coming to encounter cases, Bhatt pointed out that the SIT probing the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case sent an email concerning the case to Mehta in September 2009. The case, however, was later handed over to the CBI by the Supreme Court which even passed certain strictures against one of the police officers, Geeta Johri. The email exchanges showed that a letter purportedly sent by Johri to the CBI SP who took over the encounter probe was in fact written by Mehta, Bhatt alleged. After Amit Shah was arrested by the CBI in connection with the Sohrabuddin encounter case, Gurumurthy sent an email to Mehta asking for documents to defend him. In fact, his job as a law officer was just the opposite. The bail application for Shah was also forwarded to Mehta. Bhatt further alleged that Gurumurthy drafted the affidavit filed by additional secretary (home) in the Zakia case. Meanwhile, the apex court had recently sought scrutiny of the SIT probe in the Gulbarga Society massacre, in which Zakia's husband was killed, by amicus curiae Raju Ramachandran. After Raju submitted his report, the court decided not to give a copy either to the SIT or to the state government. It has reserved its order on the report.

-With inputs from M.C. Rajan in Chennai Godhra: 'Corrupt officers helped government, riot suspects' : North: India Today

Godhra: 'Corrupt officers helped government, riot suspects' Poornima Joshi | New Delhi, August 7, 2011 | 09:43 A file photo of the 2002 Gujarat riots. Over 682 pages of annexures submitted by the Gujarat police officer Sanjiv Bhatt to the Supreme Court reveal how the state has closed ranks to shield and help the accused in the 2002 antiMuslim riots. Officers in the law and home department of Gujarat helped riot suspects draft their affidavits and petitions while, at the same time, framing the same documents on behalf of the government meant to prosecute the same accused. The case in point, mentioned in great detail by Bhatt, is that of Bipin Ambalal Patel, who was allegedly part of a rioting mob that killed 69 Muslims in what is now infamously known as the Gulberg Society massacre case. Ehsan Jafri, an ageing former Congress MP, was brutally murdered by this mob despite pleading with them on behalf of his residential society. Patel is supposed to be prosecuted by the Gujarat state. But its advocate general Tushar Mehta drafted a petition on behalf of the accused, which was filed as criminal miscellaneous petition no. 8187-88 of 2010 in writ petition criminal number 37-52 of 2002. He subsequently drafted an affidavit on Patel's behalf to be filed before the Supreme Court and sent a copy of it to G.C. Murmu, principal secretary to chief minister Narendra Modi. The revelation comes through annexure P-40 in an email sent from tusharmehta99@ yahoo.co.in to gcm1@rediffmail. com. In effect, what this means is that the state's advocate general was drafting a petition on behalf of

an accused in a case of murder and rioting. And the CM's principal secretary was well aware of this misdemeanour. Mehta has since filed a police complaint against Bhatt for hacking into his emails, an inadvertent admission of the fact that the mails submitted by Bhatt to the apex court were, in fact, written by him. While he was framing the defence for the accused, Mehta also drafted an affidavit to be filed by the state government in response to Patel's petition. Mehta was, at least informally, working for both sides in the matter before the Supreme Court. And the government, particularly the CM's office, was aware of how the system was being subverted. RSS ideologue S. Gurumurthy, who told Mail Today earlier this week that he neither wrote nor received any of the emails quoted by Bhatt in his affidavit, emerges as the master strategist for the BJP as well as the Gujarat government's chief legal adviser. Mehta seemed to be informally reporting to Gurumurthy. Based on the information supplied to him through Mehta and Murmu, Gurumurthy was framing the BJP's political strategy as well as defence for various riot accused and police officers in the Sohrabuddin and Ishrat Jehan encounter cases. Sample Gurumurthy's advisory sent to lawyers Ram Jethmalani, Mahesh Jethmalani, Pranav Badheka and the then Gujarat home minister and now accused in the Sohrabuddin encounter Amit Shah. "We should proceed on the lines Ram is thinking, namely that the order must be recalled and the complaint itself must be quashed I further said that since the SIT would give the report by April according to Raghavan, we cannot back out of our position about the order of 27/ 4 at the hearing on 5/ 6/ 7 April If the entire matter is heard as we think, it may be that the court may decide the issue, most probably in our favour given the conviction levels of all of us As part of the political strategy, the BJP must submit the memorandum which I had drafted and sent to all for their inputs. This will help put many on the defensive," Gurumurthy said in the email sent April 18, 2010, at 4.53 pm. Another email exchange between powerful media baron N. Ram of The Hindu and Gurumurthy. Both Ram and Gurumurthy have denied this exchange. "I have no such recollection," Ram said when this correspondent spoke to him August 4. Ram did not respond to messages and emails requesting his response on Saturday. The email was sent from Gurumurthy to Ram on February 17, 2010 on two accounts nram@ thehindu. co. in and nram. thehindu@ gmail. com. the email, Gurumurthy said: "This refers to our telephonic talk after Cho spoke to you and to me. Here is the note, I would like you too to go through it that you understand the issues before you talk to the person concerned." The email comes with a long attachment which contains references to how the NGO Citizens for Justice and Peace is trying to put pressure on the SIT do what the central government wants in

the Gujarat riots investigations. The annexures paint a grim picture of the goings-on in Gujarat. The only hope for justice when the state has aligned with the perpetrators of atrocities on the Muslims rests with the apex court. BJP silent on compromise of Gujarat riot cases BJP silent on compromise of Gujarat riot cases NDTV Correspondent, Updated: August 09, 2011 18:05 IST New Delhi: A day after an NDTV report showed that the legal process in the Gujarat riot cases could have been compromised, the BJP leadership has gone into silent mode. Refusing to comment on the issue, Gujarat government spokesperson Jaynarayan Vyas said, "We won't comment on this as the matter is sub judice." On Friday, NDTV reported that senior police officer Sanjiv R Bhatt has told the Supreme Court that the Gujarat government, which is meant to prosecute those accused of the communal riots of 2002, has actually been leaking information for use in their defence. Mr Bhatt has also accused Chief Minister Narendra Modi of asking policemen to ignore calls for help during the riots, which killed 1200 people. In an affidavit filed in the Supreme Court, Mr Bhatt has included emails that allegedly show how the state government was sharing information with the lawyers of some of those accused in the riots. A Special Investigation Team (SIT) was appointed a few years ago by the Supreme Court to investigate the riots. Mr Bhatt says he has emails that show classified parts of the SIT were being emailed to Tushar Mehta, who is the Additional Advocate General of Gujarat. According to the policeman, Mr Mehta, who is meant to be handling the prosecution in different cases related to the riots, then forwarded emails containing the SIT excerpts to Gurumurthy Swaminathan, who is an RSS ideologue. Mr Gurumurthy then forwarded the information to lawyer Ram Jethmalani and his son, Mahesh, who represents former state Home Minister Amit Shah. Along with other ministers and Mr Modi, Mr Shah is being investigated for whether they misused government machinery during the riots. Mr Mehta also shared the information, according to Mr Bhatt's affidavit, with lawyers for others accused in the riots. Mr Mehta and Mr Bhatt were close friends. The lawyer allegedly gave the policeman access to his mail because they were planning family vacations together. On Friday evening, Mahesh Jethmalani said, "I have not appeared in the trial court in any Gujarat riots case for any accused. I have been representing an accused in the Supreme Court and I have received no information from either Mr Gurumurthy or Mr Tushar Mehta that has helped

my case in the Supreme Court." Mr Gurumurthy also said he "has not received the SIT report." Mr Bhatt has made headlines in the last few months after he told the Supreme Court that he attended a meeting on February 27, 2002 which was chaired by Chief Minister Narendra Modi. 59 people had been killed by now in a train near Godhra; most of them were kar-sevaks on their way back from Ayodhya. Communal tension was surging through the state. Mr Bhatt was posted with the State Intelligence Bureau at the time. He says the Chief Minister told the policemen to remain indifferent to calls of help from those being attacked by rioters. Mr Bhatt recalls Mr Modi saying that it was imperative for Hindus to be allowed to 'vent out their anger.' Mr Modi and other policemen who attended the meeting have said Mr Bhatt was not present. Mr Bhatt claims that he shared this information with the SIT set up by the Supreme Court to investigate the riots. The SIT, he says, showed little interest on following up on his allegations. A few months ago, a criminal case was filed against Mr Bhatt by another police officer who says Mr Bhatt forced him to testify that Mr Bhatt attended Mr Modi's meeting with policemen in February 2002. Mr Bhatt wants his case to be transferred out of Gujarat. Slamming the Modi government over Mr Bhatt's claims in his affidavit, state Congress president Arjun Modhvadiya said today, "That there was complicity of the Narendra Modi government machinery in riots is well known and well documented. Its officials were in nexus with the accused in the riots. But with the Supreme Court-appointed SIT coming under a cloud, it's a serious matter. These mails have shown that they were also part of the nexus. Since it's an SIT appointed by the Supreme Court, I am hopeful that the apex court will look into it." The BJP has been questioning the credibility of Mr Bhatt, saying he's part of the campaign to malign Narendra Modi. The party is also asking how Mr Bhatt managed to access the emails of Mr Mehta, who has now filed a police complaint against Mr Bhatt for hacking his computer.

Political slugfest over anti-Modi cop 10 Aug 2011, 1353 hrs IST, AGENCIES Politics over the suspension of senior IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt by the Gujarat government erupted on Wednesday (August 10) with the Left claiming that the anti-Modi cop is being targeted even as the BJP remains on the defensive. Bhatt, a 1988 batch IPS officer, who has been locked in a public confrontation with the Gujarat government over post-Godhra riots, was suspended on Monday. He was placed under suspension by the Home Department in exercise of powers conferred by Rule 3(1) of All India Services (Discipline and Appeals) Rules, 1969. Senior Left leader Brinda Karat said, "The matter is in the Supreme Court. Whether he is guilty or not will be decided by the court. At such a time to suspend him is obviously wrong and looks

like a move to target him." The BJP, meanwhile, questioned the cop's integrity and said that the whatever the Gujarat government has done they will have an explanation for it. Law Minister Salman Khurshid said, "It is not very clear what the grounds of the suspension are. Since the matter is before the court, I am sure that the court will examine and if there is any relevant matter the court will take action." Sanjiv Bhatt has said that he would challenge his suspension by the Gujarat government, claiming that the action was prompted by his petition in the Supreme Court on the 2002 postGodhra riots. The Narendra Modi government, however, contested Bhatt's claim saying it was not the case and that the suspension was prompted by his acts of indiscipline.

TIMES NOW's Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami debates the issue if the Narendra Modi Govt has gone overboard in sacking top cop Sanjiv Bhatt who has taken on the Gujarat CM, with Sanjeev Bhatt, Suspended IPS Officer & Whistleblower; Iqbal Singh, Counsel for Sanjeev Bhatt; Yatin Oza, President, Gujarat Bar Council & Counsel for Amit Shah; Meenakshi Lekhi, Senior Lawyer; Dr. Ajay Kumar, former IPS Officer & MP and Kamini Jaiswal, Senior Lawyer, Supreme Court. Senior IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt, who has been locked in a public confrontation with the Gujarat government over 2002 post-Godhra riots, was suspended yesterday (Aug 8). The Narendra Modi government ordered the suspension of the Inspector General-rank officer with immediate effect on the grounds that his conduct was unbecoming of an IPS officer. The specific reasons cited against Bhatt was unauthorised absence of duty, non-appearance before a departmental panel and alleged misuse of official vehicle.Bhatt, who has earlier accused Modi of misusing state machinery during post-Godhra riots, alleged recently that SIT probe details on riots cases were leaked to a top law officer of the state government. He had also accused Modi of asking cops to ignore calls for help from Muslims during the riots. Accusing Narendra Modi Govt of victimising Bhatt after he filed a PIL alleging SIT was leaking information on Gujarat riots' investigation to a state law officer, Congress today demanded shifting of all 2002 riot related cases outside the state. Officers fresh affidavit rakes up more muck In an additional affidavit in the Supreme Court, the IPS officer says a nexus of government officers and politicians is at work to help the accused in post-Godhra and encounter cases Ahmedabad Mirror Bureau

Posted On Wednesday, August 03, 2011 at 02:16:08 AM

Sanjiv Bhatt Senior police officer Sanjiv Bhatt has added one more chapter to the Gujarat governments murky confrontation with various police officers and bureaucrats by alleging an unholy nexus between senior government officials and politicians to shield powerful persons from prosecution in post-Godhra communal violence and fake encounter cases. According to Bhatt, the nexus was at work to help the accused in cases related to post-Godhra riots, Chief Minister Narendra Modis interrogation by the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team, alleged gangster Sohrabuddin Shaikhs staged encounter and Mumbai college student Ishrat Jahans killing. He alleges that the additional secretary (home)s affidavit was drafted by an outsider, Gurumurthy Swaminathan, who is helping the accused defend themselves. In an additional affidavit in the Supreme Court on July 26, the IPS officer alleged that from September 2009 onwards he has come across several emails of state Additional Advocate General Tushar Mehta that are clearly indicative of an unholy nexus and illegal complicity between high functionaries of the State of Gujarat and other extraneous political entities, in the on-going cover-up operations and machinations, aimed at shielding powerful persons from prosecution for alleged heinous crimes. Explaining the circumstances in which he came across the exchange of email between Mehta and political entities, Bhatt said that he accessed them as part of his duty to obtain evidentiary intelligence. TRIED TO APPRISE SIT, AMICUS CURIAE Bhatt said that he even tried to bring the facts to the notice to the SIT and the amicus curiae appointed by the Supreme Court. He claimed to have tried to dissuade Mehta from continuing his connivance in the illegal machinations of the State of Gujarat and tried to persuade him to bring the facts of the said modus to the knowledge of the concerned authorities and courts. That Shri. Tushar Mehta did not heed to the advice of the petitioner and eventually started using the email account tusharmehta64@yahoo.com for the purpose of exchanging sensitive information. Giving a detailed account with dates, Bhatt said the exchange of emails between February 5, 2010 and March 15, 2010, clearly established unauthorised on passing of the documents to Swaminathan. This Honble Court directed that SIT reports were to be given to the Learned Amicus Curie and the State Counsel but the State Authorities in violation of the Courts order provided copies of documents to an outsider like Shri Gurumurthy who is helping the accused in their defence. The action on part of the Addl. Advocate General, of sharing documents which were marked SECRET by Under Secretary (Home), with an outsider like S Gurumurthy. That Shri Gurumurthy in turn prepared and sent a note for the hearing of March 15, 2010 in the matter of

the SIT in the Honble Supreme Court to the Advocates for the accused persons. (Sic) ROLE OF AN EDITOR Dragging in the editor-in-chief of a national daily, Bhatt said that the former minister of state for home Amit Shah forwarded a note on the investigation of Gujarat cases for the editor to Mehta. The said e-mail also states that the note was forwarded to the editor by Swaminathan on February 17, 2010. The note stated that Honble Justice Arijit Pasayat, who headed the Bench that directed the SIT to look into the complaint of Zakia Jafri in SLP No. 1088 of 2008 on 09.05.2009 and within six days on 15.05.2009 he accepted appointment as the head of Competition Commission of India. This requires to be viewed seriously by this Honble Court. SOHRAB, ISHRAT CASES Bhatt has also made comments on Sohrabuddin Shaikh fake encounter and Ishrat Jahan encounter cases. On the Sohrab case, he says, The aforesaid documents make it clear that despite the fact Amit Shah was arraigned as an accused by the CBI in an Supreme Court entrusted investigation, bureaucrats attached with the CMs Office and Home, senior police officers and the additional advocate general were all making attempts to help Sh. Amit Shah in defending himself. On Ishrat case, he says, ... it is clear that the Additional Advocate General along with some bureaucrats are making all attempts to defend (IPS officer) Sh. G.L. Singhal who is named as an accused in an inquiry conducted by the Metropolitan Magistrate under Section 176 of Cr.P.C. and also there is an investigation going on by a Special Investigating Team under the direct supervision of the High Court against Sh. G.L.Singha1. On one side, the said officers are preparing and filing various petitions and Affidavits on behalf of the State and on the other side the same officers are preparing and getting filed Applications/Affidavits on behalf of the socalled accused persons. Bhatt has alleged that Additional secretary (home)s affidavit was drafted by an outsider ie Gurumurthy Swaminathan in consultation with the advocates of the accused persons. MODIS INTERROGATION After Modis day-long grilling by the SIT, Bhatt alleged that Gurumurthy prepared a memorandum for senior BJP leaders to be submitted to the president of India. On 30.03.2010 Shri Gurumurthy Swaminathan prepared and forwarded a Memorandum to be given to the President and the Prime Minister of India to Shri Amit Shah, Sh Narendra Modi and (advocate) Sh. Mahesh Jethmalani. The said Memorandum was to be given to the President and the Prime Minister by (BJP leaders) Sh. L.K. Advani, Mrs. Sushma Swaraj, Sh. Arun Jaitley and Sh. Nitin Gadkari inter alia demanding investigations against (social activist) Ms. Teesta Setalvad and her organization. The said mail contains a note from Sh. Gurumurthy Swaminathan... http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/3/201108032011080302163347540493664/Officer%E 2%80%99s-fresh-affidavit-rakes-up-more-muck.html Posted 11th August 2011 by Srinivasan Kalyanaraman