Modi Government in Gujarat has extended the term of Sugnya Bhatt Commission for another three months up to May 2014. The commission was set up on November 26 to inquire into alleged snooping on a lady architect by Gujarat Police under the alleged guideline of Gujarat’s former Minister of State, Amit Shah.
Apart from Justice Sugnya Bhatt, the two-member commission consisting former additional chief secretary in Gujarat Government, KC Kapoor. “This is first extension to the commission as its three-month term completed on February 26,” said a senior State Government official confirming the development. During mid-November last year, reports of two websites, Gulel.com and kobrapost.com allegedly uploaded audio tapes of conversation between Shah and one of the accused in Ishrat Jahan encounter case and Gujarat cadre IPS officer Gl Singhal. The websites claimed that Singhal snooped on the woman architect as well as suspended IAS officer Pradeep Sharma.
Sources in the State Government said that the enquiry commission had not yet completed its investigation on the snooping case. “Besides, the commission is in the process of checking truthfulness of the uploaded audio tapes,” said the official adding that the commission has issued notice to the two journalists who filed report pertaining to spying.