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Friday, July 5, 2013

Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case

The Ishrat Jahan encounter took place on 15 June 2004, and involved encounter killings of four people with alleged links to terrorists on an empty road stretch between Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar in Gujarat state, by officers of the Ahmedabad Police Crime Branch.

Those killed were Ishrat Jahan Raza, a 19-year old girl from Mumbai and 3 men - Pranesh Pillai (alias Javed Gulam Sheikh), Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar.

The police alleged that Ishrat and her associates were Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operatives involved in a plot to assassinate the Chief Minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi.

The encounter was carried out allegedly by a team led by DIG D.G. Vanjara, who was later jailed for his alleged involvement in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter(The Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case is an ongoing criminal case in Gujat, after the state police killed underworld criminal Sohrabuddin Anwarhussain Sheikh on November 26, 2005, while he was in police custody)



After a long investigation, in 2009, an Ahmedabad Metropolitan court ruled that the encounter was staged.

The decision was challenged by the Gujarat State government, and taken to the High Court.

After further investigation, in 2011, a Special Investigation Team (SIT) told the Gujarat HC that the encounter was not genuine, and the victims were killed prior to the date of the staged encounter.

In June 2013, the IB chief Asif Ibrahim told the office of Prime Minister and Home Minister of India that the Bureau had enough evidence to prove that Ishrat was a part of an LeT module which planned to kill Narendra Modi and Lal Krishna Advani.

On 3 July, 2013, the CBI has filed its first chargesheet in an Ahmadabad court saying that the shooting was a staged encounter carried out in cold blood.

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