Sreekumar was Additional Director General of Police in charge of armed unit in Gujarat during Godhra Incident and was Intelligence DGP immediately after 2002 Gujarat riots took place. He is known for the affidavits he filed to Nanavati-Mehta Commission and presentation to James Michael Lyngdoh the then Chief Election Commissioner of India alleging dubious role of law and order in the riots. This led to cancellation of original proposal of early election in the state. In one of the affidavits he annexed transcripts of illegal tutoring by bureaucrats to him in clandestine recordings and a "semi-official" register and of maintained during his tenure as DGP - Intelligence apart from other evidences. The Times of India newspaper carried an exclusive news item based on his report to the Nanavati-Mehta Commission in which he claimed to have documented the state's connivance at the perpetration of riots. The Indian Supreme Court, however, found all such claims to be false.