‘IB man directly involved in op’
The CBI’s probe into the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case has revealed that special director of the Intelligence Bureau Rajendra Kumar had allegedly personally monitored the operation to detain Jishan Johar, who was subsequently killed in the encounter along with the 19-year-old Mumbai teenager on June 15, 2004 in Ahmedabad.
The agency in its chargesheet, filed in a local court in Ahmedabad on June 3 said, “Passive agents engaged by Mr Kumar and accused Gujarat police officer G.L. Singhal assisted other accused cops in managing the illegal custody of Jishan Johar”.
Investigations further revealed that in the last week of April 2004, Jishan on his arrival in Ahmedabad, was taken into illegal custody by a joint team of accused Gujarat police officers and state intelligence bureau officers of Ahmedabad consisting of Mr Kumar and Mr Singhal, said the agency report.
“Jishan Johar was confined at house number 164/165 in Gota Housing Vaishno Devi crossing, Ahmedabad, and surveillance was maintained by accused Gujarat cops,” said the CBI report. Probe by the agency revealed that Rajendra Kumar along with D.G. Vanzara, another accused officer, had even met Amjadali, who was also killed in the infamous encounter, at Arham Farm during his confinement from May 26, 2004 to June 15, 2004.
Two days after filing chargesheet by the agency in the case, CBI director Ranjit Sinha on Friday said, “We are probing all angles in the Ishrat case, including the statements of some witnesses claiming knowledge of political conspiracy behind the fake encounter involving the Gujarat police and the Subsidiary Intelligence Bureau. We are investigating all the angles related to it,” he said. He further said the CBI is taking assistance from other agencies, including the NIA in its probe in the case.
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