Ahmedabad, June 19: Father of one of the persons killed in a police encounter in 2004 along with college student Ishrat Jahan today moved the Gujarat High Court demanding that hearing on his pending plea seeking CBI inquiry into the case begin at the earliest.
Gopinath Pillai, father of Javed Ghulam Sheikh alias Pranesh Kumar Pillai who was one of the three persons killed along with Ishrat, in his application requested the court to expedite the implementation of Supreme Court order of April 19.
In its April 19 order, the apex court had asked the Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court to constitute a division bench on the petitions filed by the deceased’s kith for a CBI inquiry.
According to Rajesh Mankad who filed the application on behalf of Pillai, the matter would come up for hearing sometime next week.
–PTI