CBI likely to disclose more names in Ishrat Jahan case today INDIA TODAY ONLINE NEW DELHI, JULY 26, 2013 | UPDATED 11:44 IST Three weeks after CBI filed its first chargesheet in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case earlier this month, the Gujarat High Court will hold a further hearing on Friday. The CBI is likely to apprise the court of their future course of action. The court had earlier rappped the investigative agency for inordinate delays in the probe. The CBI, which filed its first chargesheet in the lower court in New Delhi on July 3, has termed the encounter as fake, and a joint operation by Gujarat Police and the Intelligence Bureau (IB). The agency will present the status of its investigation and probe in the case before the high court. The CBI, which is expected to file a supplementary chargesheet, may name some more officers in it. The CBI, in its first chargesheet has named seven senior Gujarat police officers as accused, and several others as witnesses in the case. Suspended IPS officers G L Singhal, N K Amin, D G Vanzara, retired DSP J G Parmar, DySP Tarun Barot, commando Anaju Chaudhary and absconding Additional Director General of Police P P Pandey have been named as accused. As per the chargesheet, Vanzara, who allegedly had differences with Singhal over killing Ishrat, had told latter that he and the then IB joint director Rajinder Kumar had a nod from the top political authorities for the encounter. Nineteen-year-old Mumbai-based girl Ishrat Jahan, Javed Shaikh alias Pranesh Pillai, Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar were gunned down in an encounter by Gujarat police on June 15, 2004 on the outskirts of the city. The police had then claimed that the four were on a mission to assassinate Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. - With PTI inputs
Posted on: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 08:58:50 +0000
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