The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday gave a clean chit to Narendra Modi’s aide Amit Shah in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case. CBI submitted its report to a special CBI court.
CBI, investigating the alleged fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan and three others, has not included any political leaders in chargesheets filed by it but has charged police and IB officers for murder and criminal conspiracy among other things.
The CBI had filed its charge sheet against Gujarat’s suspended Deputy Superintendent of Police N K Amin and six other police officers, alleging that 19-year-old Mumbai-based girl Ishrat Jahan, Javed Sheikh alias Pranesh Pillai, Zeeshan Johar and Amjad Ali Rana were killed in a fake encounter in 2004.
The six other police officers include IPS officer G L Singhal, retired DSP J G Parmar, Mehsana Deputy SP Tarun Barot and commando Anaju Chaudhary.
It had alleged that it was a joint operation of state police and Intelligence Bureau. Amin was accused of abducting Ishrat and Sheikh from Vasad two days prior to the killings, and firing the shots during the so-called encounter.
They four were gunned down by the Gujarat police on June 15, 2004 on the charge that they were on a mission to eliminate Chief Minister Narendra Modi. The CBI has claimed all the four were killed in a “fake” encounter.
–PTI