A police officer in India's Gujarat state says the government there authorized the killing of Muslims during his term as intelligence chief in 2002.
R.B. Sreekumar has brought a case against the Gujarat government, saying he was denied a promotion for refusing to act upon "illegal and unconstitutional directives" of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as well as the state government and senior state police officers, the BBC reported Thursday.
Sreekumar made the allegations in detailed notes he kept during his tenure and has submitted them to India's Central Administrative Tribunal, which investigates complaints by civil servants.
In the notes, Sreekumar alleges that Modi asked him to tap the telephones of opposition party leaders.
He also alleges that senior government officials asked him to kill Muslim extremists involved in the 2002 Gujarat religious riots.
Modi has been criticized at home and abroad for his handling of the riots, in which more than 1,000 people died, most of them Muslims.
The Gujarat government has responded that the charges are baseless and untrue, and were instigated because Sreekumar was not promoted.
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