Ahmedabad: Slamming the state government over the 2004 Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, Gujarat High Court observed that it was apparently shielding the policemen accused in the case.
The court made this comment after going through the progress report of the investigation in the case carried out by the CBI and which was submitted, in a sealed cover to the court on Thursday.
The bench also questioned the intention of the state government for its objections to spare Verma's services as required by the CBI.
"We fail to understand why the state is opposing the request made by the CBI to spare the services of its IPS officer. Why is that the state government is objecting and obstructing in this? State government should strive to find out whoever the real culprits are and ensure that they get booked at the earliest," the bench observed....
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Gujarat IPS officer GL Singhal, who was arrested in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case, has resigned from the police force. He was suspended after being arrested in the case. GL Singhal was the ACP in 2004 during the fake encounter case. Singhal is among the 20 policemen, including DIG Vanzara, named in the case. ...
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Ahmedabad: The Gujarat government on Monday revoked the suspension of IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, as it accepted the decision of the central review committee which reports to the Union Home Ministry. The IPS officer had been suspended in August 2011 for not turning up to work in the wake of his allegations against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in connection with the 2002 riots. Bhatt had claimed that he was...
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Ahmedabad: A day after Gujarat's senior-most police officers came out in open support of anti-Modi IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt, the State police chief is trying to play down the move. Gujarat DGP Chitaranjan Singh said, "The association has done it. That's all I can say.If some officer has done something wrong, the courts will look into it. The courts are looking into it. If the family needs something, it is...
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