Accusing the UPA of changing its stand in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case in a bid to implicate Narendra Modi, BJP today said it has caused "irreparable damage" to the country's intelligence agencies and their ability to undertake covert operations against terror.
Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley, however, favoured bringing such covert operations under the framework of law and subjecting them to limited Parliamentary scrutiny.
Training his guns on the then Home Minister P Chidambaram for attempting to implicate political leaders of Gujarat by changing the Centre's stand, he said the operation has ended up implicating the IB for having engineered a fake encounter.
"The ultimate wise man who was the Home Minister in 2009 undertook the operation with the idea of implicating Narendra Modi and Amit Shah. He has ended up implicating the IB, an agency of the UPA government which during the tenure of the UPA is being accused of having engineered the fake encounter.
"The damage done to India's intelligence agencies and their ability to undertake covert operations is irreparable," he said.
