Click to play videoAhmedabad: A day after the Narendra Modi government was pushed on the back foot on the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, the Gujarat High Court has provided it a breather.
The High Court on Wednesday stayed implementation of the magisterial report which blamed the Gujarat Police for faking the encounter of Ishrat Jahan and three of her friends in June 2005.
The High Court came down on Justice Tamang - who submitted the report on the fake encounter - saying: "The Metropolitan Magistrate should have submitted the report to Gujarat High Court instead of publishing it and it was beyond the Magistrate's jurisdiction to hold the police guilty in the case. The Registrar General should take appropriate action in accordance with the law."
Gujarat HC has also banned any further publication of this report.
Going a step further, the High Court is also suggesting action against Magistrate Tamang for making his report public.
Over the last 24 hours, the Gujarat government has been crying foul and saying in its defense that the Union Home Ministry had submitted an affidavit stating Ishrat Jahan, Javed and two more people gunned down in the encounter were indeed involved with the terror outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba.
The state government says the Central Government's affidavit is the main reason why they have been accusing Justice Tamang of falling out of line.
"He should have submitted the report to us," says Gujarat government Spokesperson, Jai Narayan Vyas.
For the family of Ishrat Jahan and for all the activists who were gunning for Modi, it could well turn out to be a case of starting from scratch all over again.
(With inputs from Ashok Bagriya in New Delhi)
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