Intelligence Bureau (IB) Director on Monday briefed the Union Home Secretary claiming that the CBI has no concrete evidence against its Special Director.
The IB said that on the basis of a statement made by an accused-turned-approver, the investigators could not drag its Special Director Rajendra Kumar in the Ishrat Jahan case.
IB Director Asif Ibrahim is understood to have conveyed that Kumar, an IPS officer of 1979 batch of MT cadre, followed established protocol as a Joint Director of IB, Gujarat, in 2004, while forwarding the input regarding threat by the LeT. The alert was sent to state, Centre and other law enforcement agencies concerned.
The sources said that the domestic spy agency in order to demolish the conspiracy theory in the case had forwarded a copy of the alert issued by the IB, Ahmedabad, on April 22, 2004, to the probing agency. The copy was marked to all the state DGs.
“It has been reported that senior intelligence official was in touch with the state police official but that doesn’t prove his involvement in the encounter. As an intelligence operator, it is the primary responsibility of the IB officials to interact with state police to collect inputs on major counter-terror operations and other field activities. He was just doing his job,” sources added.