[1]New Delhi: Investigations into the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case have revealed that a gunny bag containing 17 kilograms of yellow powder recovered from the Indica car, allegedly used to bring all four victims to the crime scene by the Gujarat cops on June 15, 2004, was not an explosive material at all.
Contrary to the claims of the Gujarat Police, sources said, forensic examinations of the powder — which was allegedly planted on the deceased by the accused cops after the shootout — revealed that it was not an ‘explosive mixture’.
Ishrat along with three others — Javed Sheikh alias Pranesh Pillai, Amjadali Akbarali Rana and Zeeshan Johar — were killed in a fake encounter near Ahmedabad on June 15, 2004.
Immediately after the encounter, Gujarat Police had claimed that the victims were on a mission to kill the then state Chief Minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi.
“The yellow powder, recovered from inside the car, was analysed qualitatively and quantitatively by the forensic experts, who opined that the chemical mixture was not an explosive material,” sources said.
The CBI probe has also established that the victims did not fire even a single bullet at the Gujarat police officers during the alleged shootout.
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