Former Gujarat police officers DG Vanzara and NK Amin will no longer be accused in the 2004 Ishrat Jehan fake encounter killing as an Indian court today approved their request for discharge after Gujarat Government refused to grant sanction for their prosecution.
A Special CBI court on today (June 30) concluded hearing a discharge petition filed by former IPS officer DG Vanzara in connection with the 2004 Ishrat Jahan encounter case.
Former Gujarat police chief and one of the accuse in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case has been discharged and shall not be convicted in the case that date back to year 2004.
DSP N K Amin, the only accused left in jail in the 2004 Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, was on Friday granted bail by a special CBI court on grounds of worsening health and parity with co-accused, reports Hindustan Times (HT).
Four days after a special court of the Central Bureau of Investigation or CBI granted him bail in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case, the Gujarat government has revoked the suspension of police officer PP Pande.
India's ruling Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) general secretary Amit Shah has been declared as the new party president on Wednesday (July 09). India's Home minister Rajnath Singh announced in a news conference that he was stepping down as the BJP president and declared Shah as his successor.
Gujrat, India (February 06, 2014): It is learnt that a former head of Intelligence Bureau’s Gujarat wing and three of his serving colleagues were today (Feb. 06) charged with murder and conspiracy in the extra-judicial killing of Ishrat Jahan and three others 10 years ago.
Gujrat, India (July 04, 2013): A 19-year-old girl named Ishrat Jahan was killed along with three others (all men) by Gujarat Police in 2004. The police had claimed that all were connected to 'terrorist activities' and were killed in an encounter. But now the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has concluded that Ishrat Jahan was not connected to any terrorist activities, and further that she was killed in a fake/staged encounter. CBI reportedly filed a charge-sheet in this matter on July 03, 2013.