UPA plays politics with its affidavit: Home backs it, Law pulls up ... - Indian Express

A day after the Gujarat government waved a Central affidavit backing its claim that Ishrat Jahan and her associates were linked to the Lashkar-e-Toiba and were planning a terror strike, the Union Home Ministry stood by the contents of its affidavit but the Law Ministry sent out a completely conflicting signal by initiating action against the law officer who had filed that affidavit.

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The Law Ministry today decided to take action against Assistant Solicitor General P S Champaneri for failing to bring to the notice of the ministry the contents of the affidavit filed by the Home Ministry in the Gujarat High Court, sources said. In the affidavit filed last month, the Home Ministry told the High Court that it had indeed passed on information to the state police on the suspected terror links of Ishrat Jahan and her three companions who were gunned down in June 2004.

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