New Delhi, September 18: Musarrat Jahan knows it’s going to be a long and lonely battle ahead. But she says she is prepared for it. The courts will be unbiased, unlike the state, and punish her sister Ishrat’s killers, she tells in an interview.
Now that a metropolitan court at Ahmedabad has ruled Ishrat was killed in a staged encounter, do you feel vindicated?
I can’t tell you how big a relief it is. All these years we lived with not just the pain of Ishrat’s death, but also the stain of being a terrorist’s family. We are grateful to the court for clearing my sister’s name.
The ruling has created a sensation across the nation and a huge embarrassment for the Gujarat government. What do you want now?
My sister’s killers are roaming free. Whoever killed her and whoever was part of the conspiracy should be brought to book. She was butchered. We have been waiting for justice for so long. We know she was never in the wrong. We want her name to be cleared and all those involved in the frame-up to be punished.
Are you hinting that the Gujarat government was behind the conspiracy?
It does seem like that. How could the police carry out something like this without the state government being aware of it?
Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi has come under severe attack for the fake encounter. What do you have to say about that?
I think Modi hates Muslims. We never had any expectations from the Gujarat government. But we have faith in the judiciary. The judges will be unbiased unlike the Gujarat government and punish Ishrat’s killers.
Courtesy-Midday