Ahmedabad: The special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Ahmedabad on Saturday remanded suspended Gujarat police officer Narendra Amin in six-day (till April 12) CBI custody in college student Ishrat Jahan fake encounter killing case. CBI had sought 14 days' custody of Amin who is a suspended Deputy Superintendent of Police and was arrested by the agency on Thursday from a hospital in Ahmedabad.
The order on CBI's remand application had been reserved by Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate HS Khutwad on Friday after Amin alleged torture. "I was severely beaten up and also verbally abused by the CBI officers in custody," he had said.
The court on Saturday asked the agency to take him for a medical check-up and see to it that his health was protected. In March, he had got bail on medical grounds from the Bombay High Court in Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter killing case.
CBI maintained in the remand application that before the alleged encounter of Ishrat Jahan and three others, no cordon had been set up, contrary to police's claim. "The incident did not happen in the way it was mentioned in the complaint," it said....
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10:38 PM, Apr 06, 2013
Ahmedabad: Suspended Gujarat police officer N K Amin, arrested by CBI in the alleged fake encounter of Mumbai girl Ishrat Jahan and three others near Ahmedabad in 2004, on Friday told a court that he was tortured by the investigation agency. Amin, a suspended Deputy Superintendent of Police, was arrested on Thursday. "I was severely beaten up and also verbally abused by the CBI officers in custody," Amin accused when...
01:13 AM, Apr 06, 2013
Ahmedabad: The CBI on Thursday arrested another officer of Gujarat police in connection with the 2004 alleged fake encounter of 19-year-old college girl Ishrat Jahan and three others, officials of the agency said. NK Amin, suspended Deputy Superintendent of Police, who got bail from Bombay High Court in March in Sohrabuddin encounter case on medical grounds, was on Thursday arrested by CBI from the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad. Amin was...
01:15 AM, Apr 05, 2013
A local court has allowed CBI to arrest suspended Gujarat ACP Narendra Amin, facing trial in the alleged fake encounter of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, in the 2004 Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case. "The special court in Gujarat had last week issued a production warrant against Amin. We submitted the production warrant in the Mumbai CBI court, which is trying Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, and it gave us permission to present...
11:45 PM, Mar 04, 2013
Ahmedabad: The Ishrat Jahan encounter probe has got a new chief, the sixth since the Gujarat High Court began monitoring the case. But not a single arrest has been made even as Ishrat's relatives blame more than a dozen police officers of carrying out a fake encounter. "Two years plus six chairmen down the line...there's absolutely no visible progress. We are disappointed and there is frustration too," said Mukul Sinha,...
07:48 AM, Jul 22, 2011
