Ahmedabad: Divisive retired IPS officer DG Vanzara on Friday claimed that had it not been for the "genuine encounters" by the Gujarat police, Pakistan might have been winning in its design to kill the then chief minister and now Prime Minister Narendra Modi and turn the state into one more Kashmir.

In a statement post the special CBI`s court`s ruling in the Sohrabuddin-Tulsiram Prajapati encounter case in Mumbai on Friday, Vanzara, who was previously an accused in the case, stated the police personnel of Gujarat, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh were made whipping boy in the "political war" between the then BJP government in the state and the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre.

The CBI court`s verdict acquitting all the 22 accused police officers in the Sohrabuddin encounter case has only agreed with the claims he had been making right from the beginning that none of these encounters was stage-managed but were all genuine to eradicate the Pakistan-sponsored terrorists who had been coming to Gujarat with the mission to kill Modiji.

"But for the encounters, it might have become difficult to ensure the safety of Modiji and Pakistan by now would have succeeded in turning Gujarat into another terrorist-ridden Kashmir," he stated.

He also claimed that the Gujarat police had accurate information about the movements of the Pakistan-sponsored terrorists and acted quickly to ensure the security of the nation and protect the life of the then chief minister who was under constant danger.