New Delhi: Gujarat government and the state police are not cooperating with the investigation in Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, said Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) sources on Monday. The sources have also said former Joint Commissioner of Police PP Pande is involved in the conspiracy of the case.
The government is shielding Pande, whose whereabouts are yet not known, sources added. The probe agency is now set to request the court to issue arrest warrant against him, they said.
Pande, who is a 1980 batch IPS officer, has been missing and has not joining investigations.
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03:10 PM, Apr 29, 2013
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...
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
The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested one more police officer in connection with the 2004 alleged fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan and three others, officials of the agency said. ...
07:26 PM, Feb 24, 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
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court on Thursday issued a contempt notice to Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Balwant Singh for non-compliance of its order on transfer of three senior police officials involved in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case. A Division Bench of justices Jayant Patel and Abhilasha Kumari asked the state government why the officers were not transferred on time despite directions from the court during the two previous hearings. The...
06:26 PM, Apr 21, 2011
