A top Union home ministry official admitted that the findings so far have not yielded any tangible results and additional secretary B K Prasad has been asked to expedite the probe. Prasad who is retiring on May 31 was given one month to complete the probe.
The probe into missing papers from Ishrat Jahan files in Union home ministry seems to have reached a dead end. Chances are that the probe that could have put former union home minister P Chidambaram in problem may be wrapped up soon without any significant findings.
A top Union home ministry official admitted that the findings so far have not yielded any tangible results and additional secretary B K Prasad has been asked to expedite the probe. Prasad who is retiring on May 31 was given one month to complete the probe.
Prasad was tasked to find out the missing papers -- two letters written by the then Union home secretary G K Pillai to Attorney General late G E Vahanvati and the copy of the draft affidavit on which changes were made -- on March 14.
Headed by additional secretary of the home ministry B K Prasad, the committee has been given one month time to find out which all documents under what circumstances went missing from the sensitive Ishrat Jahan case file.
The committee was to expected to find out the person responsible for the upkeep of files and how and on whose insistence they were removed from the sensitive file.
Describing missing of some key documents in Ishrat files as a "deep conspiracy", union home minister Rajnath Singh in the budget session had declared that he would go to the bottom of it as it was hatched to frame the then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi in Ishrat Jahan case.
The papers, which mysteriously went missing from the sensitive file, include two letters written by the then Union home secretary G K Pillai to the then attorney general late G E Vahanvati and the copy of the draft affidavit on which changes were allegedly made by Chidambaram.
The source added that it was quite possible that the missing papers were mistakenly stacked in some other file.
"In case it has happened it is like finding a needle in haystack,"said the source.
The first affidavit filed on the basis of inputs from Intelligence Bureau, Maharashtra and Gujarat Police in August 2009 stated that Ishrat Jahan, the 19-year-old girl from Mumbai outskirts, was a LeT terrorist. However, the reference of intelligence inputs was removed in the second affidavit that was re-submitted by in the high court on the insistence of then then union home minister P Chidambaram, said sources.
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