A commission of inquiry may be ordered by the Centre into the alleged “snooping” on a woman in Gujarat allegedly at the behest of Amit Shah, a close aide of BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.
Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Thursday said many women organisations and NGOs had given representations to President Pranab Mukherjee demanding a probe into alleged “snooping” on the woman and the President had referred the applications to the Home Ministry.
“My department is examining them. There are some formalities too that have to be completed. It should not happen or look like as if we are taking a haphazard decision against a party.
Hence, our department is going into details and once that is done, very soon we will take a decision on that,” he told reporters on the sidelines of a function in New Delhi.
Shinde was replying to a question on the possibility of ordering a probe into the alleged “snooping” incident.
Two news portals, Cobrapost and Gulail, had claimed on 15th November that Amit Shah had ordered illegal surveillance of a woman in Gujarat at the behest of one “saheb”.
They had released purported taped conversation between Shah and IPS officer G L Singhal to support their claim but said the authenticity of the tape could not be confirmed.
However, the father of the woman had told the National Commission of Women that his daughter does not want any probe into the issue as there was no encroachment of her privacy.