Chargesheet filed by CBI in a local court in Ahmedabad on July 3 held that Ishrat Jahan was killed in a "fake" encounter in cold blood in Ahmedabad in 2004 in a joint operation by Gujarat police and the Subsidiary IB, a development that comes as a major embarrassment to the Narendra Modi govt. The chargesheet also raises questions over the role of IB, does not say whether Ishrat and three others killed with her were terrorists. Nor does it name any political leaders in the conspiracy. It, however, said it found no evidence that they had come to Gujarat to kill CM Narendra Modi. The CBI chargesheeted 7 Gujarat police officers including absconding ADGP P P Pandey and suspended DIG D G Vanzara charging them with criminal conspiracy, abduction, wrongful confinement and murder. The chargesheet, which is bound to open a can of worms, is the first instance in Gujarat encounter cases where the IB has been implicated, saying that IB officials were involved from the time of abduction, to illegal confinement and killing of the 4 people. Apart from Pandey and Vanzara, the other Gujarat police officers who have been charge-sheeted are G L Singhal, Tarun Barot, N K Amin, J G Parmar and Anaju Chaudhary. Dubbed as terrorists with LeT elements, Ishrat, Javed Shaikh alias Pranesh Pillai, Amjadali Akbarali Rana and Zeeshan Johar were killed in the encounter with the Gujarat police on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on June 15, 2004. The charge sheet says the conspiracy was hatched by Pandey, Vanzara and Rajinder Kumar, who was then posted as Joint Dir of the SIB in Guj. It says that crime branch officer Amin and Barot had taken Ishrat and Javed Sheikh into their custody on June 12 from a toll booth at Vasad in Anand dist with the help of M K Sinha and Rajiv Wankhede of the IB. The document says that the 4 killed in the encounter were in prior custody of Gujarat police and, in fact, Ishrat and Javed were interrogated by Rajinder Kumar at a farm house on the city outskirts where they were kept in confinement. All the 4 were taken to a place near Kotarpur waterworks, the encounter spot, on the outskirts of the city on June 15, 2003 and were killed in cold blood, the charge sheet said. Police officers Amin, Barot, Anaju and Mohan Kalashwa, the police commando guarding Vanzara, made them stand near the road divider and fired on them, the charge sheet said. It also said that the weapons including AK-47 rifles found from the encounter spot and claimed to be of those shot in the encounter, were procured by Gujarat police officerSinghal from SIB. The charge sheet, which runs into more than 1,500 pages, including 179 witnesses' statements, says the conspiracy to kill the four was hatched by Pandey, Vanzara and Kumar. The CBI charge sheet also states that prior to the killings of the four, G L Singhal, from the instructions of D G Vanzara, collected a bag of weapons--two .38 revolvers and two AK-47 from SIB and handed over it to Nazamuddin who finally gave it to Tarun Barot. Those weapons were planted on the bodies of the four killed. All the four were taken to the encounter spot blind-folded near Kotarpur waterworks on the outskirts of the city on June 15, 2003 and were killed in cold blood, it says.Police officers Amin, Barot, Anaju and Mohan Kalaswa made them stand near the road divider and fired on them, the charge sheet says. The family members of Ishrat Jahan, who was killed in a fake encounter in Gujarat in 2004, today alleged that Modi too was a part of the conspiracy, and he should not be spared. Charging the CBI for not probing role of a Pakistan-based terror outfit LeT in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case, the BJP alleged that the agency was acting at the behest of the Congress with a one-point agenda to frame Modi. With CBI holding as "fake" the 2004 encounter of Ishrat Jahan in Gujarat, Congress launched a scathing attack on Narendra Modi saying "truth speaks for itself from the rooftop" and claimed that Modi's role in such encounters will also be exposed. Download the Times Now India's Election HQ app and get all the election info at one go. Click here: [ Ссылка ] Social Media Links :-
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