New Delhi: The Gujarat High court, hearing Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, has on Friday told the Central Bureau of Investigation that the focus should be on ensuring proper investigation. "For the CBI, the focus should be on ensuring proper investigation. Your investigation should not focus on whether the Intelligence Bureau data was genuine or false," said Justice Jayant Patel.
The CBI wanted IPS officer Satish Verma to continue assisting the agency in the investigation. The agency also said that it needs to ascertain whether former Joint Commissioner of Police Pande had met Ishrat Jahan and others before they were killed. The CBI has not filed a chargesheet in the case as the investigation is still underway.
The next hearing in the case is on June 18 in which the court is likely to decide whether Satish Verma will assist or not. The CBI on the instruction of the high court took over the probe of the fake encounter in which 19-year-old Ishrat, Javed Sheikh alias Pranesh Pillai, Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar were killed in Ahmedabad on June 15, 2004 allegedly by Crime Branch team led by DIG DG Vanzara.
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02:45 PM, Jun 14, 2013
Ahmedabad: A Special CBI Court on Thursday ordered the issuance of arrest warrant against top Gujarat police officer PP Pande, an accused in the 2004 alleged fake encounter of Mumbai teenager Ishrat Jahan and three others. The 1980-batch IPS officer of Gujarat cadre is currently Additional DGP (Crime) and he was Ahmedabad's Joint Commissioner of Police at the time of the encounter. Judge Gita Gopi, while granting the prayer of...
06:34 PM, May 02, 2013
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday arrested first Gujarat IPS officer in the Ishrat Jahan encounter 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. ...
01:29 PM, Feb 21, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has stayed investigations into the Ishrat Jahan encounter case. The investigations were stayed after Indian Police Service officer GL Singhal, filed a petition in the apex court saying Ishrat Jahan case was to be investigated by a team and now that only one officer is left in the team, the SIT will have to be reconstituted. The Gujarat High Court-appointed SIT has just one investigating...
03:47 PM, May 03, 2011
New Delhi: In a new twist in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case, senior IPS officer and a member of Special Investigation Team, Satish Verma on Friday raised doubts over the circumstances of the killings before the Gujarat High Court and sought a fresh FIR. In his affidavit to the Gujarat High court, Ahmedabad Joint Commissioner of Police Satish Verma claimed that the encounter of the Mumbai teenager and three others...
04:38 PM, Jan 28, 2011
Ahmedabad: The Ishrat Jehan encounter case will be investigated by a new three-member special investigation team (SIT). The Gujarat High Court on Friday rejected Narendra Modi government's petition that Ishrat Jehan encounter case be handed over to the Gujarat police and set up the new SIT. Directing the state government to issue notifications within 15 days in the case, the High Court said that SIT will be headed by Delhi...
04:36 PM, Sep 24, 2010
