New twist to Ishrat Jahan case as SIT member doubts encounter

Jan 28, 2011 |

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Ahmedabad: In a new twist in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case, senior IPS officer and a member of Special Investigation Team, Satish Verma today raised doubts over the circumstances of the killings before the Gujarat High Court and sought a fresh FIR.

In another development, the High Court appointed advocate Yogesh Lakhani as amicus curiae (to assist the court) in the case.

During the hearing, Verma told the division bench of Justices Jayant Patel and Abhilasha Kumari that 'there are two possibilities in the case; one is that four people (who got) killed in the encounter had come to kill Gujarat Chief Minister (Narendra Modi), and the other is that they were killed in cold blood by the police'.

"There is a possibility of the second one (having taken place) irrespective of the first one," he told the High Court.

He suggested that there should be a fresh FIR in the case since evidence raises doubts as to under what circumstances shots were fired (at Ishrat and others).

Ishrat Jahan and three others were killed in an alleged encounter by city police on June 15, 2004.

The court later formed a three-member SIT to probe the encounter. The SIT is headed by Delhi IPS officer Karnail Singh. IPS officer Mohan Jha is the other member of the team, besides Verma.

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