The CBI filed its first chargesheet in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case in the Gujarat High Court terming it as a ‘fake’. In the chargesheet, the agency named Special Director Intelligence Bureau Rajinder Kumar along with some suspended police officers.
The agency accused ADGP P P Pandey, suspended police officers D G Vanzara, G L Singhal, Tarun Barot, N K Amin and Anaju Chaudhary of murder, conspiracy and destruction of evidence.
The chargesheet says the encounter was a joint operation between Gujarat police and the Subsidiary Intelligence Bureau (SIB). The encounter in which Ishrat and her friends were killed nine years ago in 2004 was fake.
The CBI claimed that Ishrat Jahan was not a terrorist, but she along with three others was killed in a fake encounter on the outskirts of Ahmedabad. The chargesheet said that Ishrat’s friends – Pranesh Pillai alias Javed Shaikh, Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar – were allegedly planning attacks in Gujarat capital. However, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was not their target. Pranesh was using Ishrat, who was a Mumbai college student, as a shield to escape. The three had link with Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba handler, Muzammil.
Earlier, the state police crime branch had identified as the terrorists who were planning to kill Modi. The CBI said that Ishrat and Pranesh had visited Gujarat for the second time to carry out the plan to attack in Ahmedabad.
