Saturday, January 21 2006 14:24 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Ahmedabad: Godhra inquiry Commission has today been pleaded to conduct a 'through probe' into the two crucial Compact Discs (CDs) containing details of mobile telephone calls made during 2002 post-Godhra riots which will "ascertain the role of Gujarat police officials and ministers of state government".

A plea was today (Jan 21, 2006) filed before the two-member Nanavati Shah Commission asking the panel, probing the Godhra train carnage and its communal riots, to conduct "an official processing and analysis to the two CDs".

"In wake of the new references of the Commission which allows the role and conduct of Chief Minister, his Council of Ministers and police officials to be probed, we have asked the Commission to conduct an official study of the two CDS submitted by CBI officer Rahul Sharma who was the DSP of Bhavnagar district during the riots," said advocate Mukul Sinha who on behalf of an NGO (representing a section of the riot victims in Gujarat) made this plea.

Rahul Sharma during his cross-examination before the Commission in 2004 had submitted these CDs which contain the phone numbers of calls made or received during the period from February 27, 2002 to March 7, 2002 in the city of Ahmedabad when communal riots was at its peak.

"When these CDs were examined by a national daily (which had published articles based on the CDs), the role of senior politicians and top police officials during the riots had come under doubt," Sinha said adding, "now we just want these CDs to be probed officially".