Ahmedabad, March 30: In a new twist to the 2004 Ishrat Jahan encounter case, a police constable has lodged a complaint with Shahibaug Police Station alleging that Joint Commissioner of Police Satish Verma, along with two other police officers, had threatened him to give statements according to their instructions and illegally confined him for around four hours at an office in Shahibaug.
Verma is one of the three members of the HC appointed Special Investigation Team probing the case.
The complainant has been identified as constable Vijaykumar Mishra posted with Shahibaug Police Station. In his complaint, Mishra has also named two other police officers DSP F S Pathan and Police Sub-Inspector Vinod Makwana.
Ishrat and four others were killed in an encounter near Ahmedabad on June 15, 2004. Police had claimed they were Lashkar operatives out to kill Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
-Agencies