Women’s panel split over snooping scam

New Delhi: Contradictions and differences hit the National Commission for Women over the snooping scandal on Wednesday. While NCW chief Mamta Sharma said the commission “has no role in the snooping scam in the wake of the girl’s father writing to the NCW,” another member, Nirmala Samant Prabhavalkar, told the media  that the commission “will send a notice to the Gujarat government” and ask the Union home ministry to investigate the matter.

“We have asked the Gujarat chief secretary to look into then home minister Amit Shah’s role in the alleged tapping of the girl’s phone and send us an action taken report within 48 hours,” the NCW member said.

The NCW chief, who is now campaigning for her Assembly seat in Rajasthan, said that the panel “will request the MHA not to probe the issue following the father’s letter.”

Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde has, however, said the security agencies were collecting information on the whole issue and if required a probe could be ordered.

As contradictions raged over the snooping scandal, the Congress did not let go of the issue, with the party asking the BJP to drop Modi as its PM candidate. As for the BJP, the “matter is closed” after the girl’s father sent a letter to the NCW.

 Prabhavalka said, “We have asked the father to send a copy of the complaint, if any, and any other documents of 2009 that may be in his possession regarding the case. He will have to reply within the next seven days.”