Ahmedabad, August 12: Rejecting the demand for a CBI inquiry, the Gujarat High Court today transferred the Ishrat Jahan encounter case to the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT).
The SIT headed by former CBI director R K Raghvan will now further investigate the encounter case of 19-year-old Ishrat Jahan and three others.
A division bench of Justices Jayant Patel and Abhilasha Kumari observed that there is no material on record to conclude that the encounter was with malafide intentions and, therefore, the plea for a CBI inquiry by the mother of the girl was not granted.
However, the probe done by the previous police officers was found to be not satisfactory hence the genuineness of the encounter deserves further investigation, the court said.
To instill confidence and credibility in the investigations, the case has been transfered to the SIT, the court further said.
–Agencies