Gujarat Files: Anatomy Of A Cover Up -

: Transcripts include conversations with then-Home Secretary Ashok Narayan, intelligence officers like G.C. Raiger, and ATS chief Rajan Priyadarshi.

In 2010, while working for Tehelka magazine, 26-year-old Ayyub assumed the alias , an NRI filmmaker from the American Film Institute. Using concealed cameras and a fake American accent, she befriended high-ranking bureaucrats and police officers who held pivotal roles between 2001 and 2010. Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover Up

: The Supreme Court of India later dismissed the book’s evidentiary value in the Haren Pandya murder case, calling it based on "surmises and conjectures". Ayyub countered that no official featured in the book ever sued her for defamation. Using concealed cameras and a fake American accent,

The book exists because mainstream media outlets refused to touch the material. The book exists because mainstream media outlets refused

is a seminal work of investigative journalism by Rana Ayyub, detailing an eight-month undercover sting operation. Published in 2016, the book chronicles her attempt to uncover state complicity in the 2002 Gujarat riots and subsequent "fake encounter" killings during Narendra Modi’s tenure as Chief Minister. Core Investigation: The "Maithili Tyagi" Operation

: The operation culminated in an innocuous meeting with Narendra Modi himself, shortly after which Ayyub's investigation was abruptly canceled by her editors. Publication and Controversy

: The secretly recorded conversations revealed alleged orders to carry out extrajudicial killings (encounters) and systemic efforts to subvert democratic governance to serve political interests.