The victims[edit]
Ishrat Jahan Shamim Raza
Ishrat Jahan (1985 15 June 2004) was a second year Bachelor of Science student at Mumbai's Guru Nanak Khalsa College.[11] She was the second of 7 siblings. Her lower middle class family, hailing from Bihar, lived in the Rashid compound in the Muslim-dominated area of Mumbra in Thane district in Mumbai. Having lost her father Shamim two years before her own death, Ishrat taught tuition and did embroidery work to support her family. Ishrat's father Mohammad Shamim Raza was the proprietor of a Mumbai-based construction company called Asian Constructions while mother Shamima worked for a long time at a medicine packaging company in Vashi.[12]
Ishrat used to work as the secretary of Javed Sheikh (Pranesh), and used to handle his accounts.[13] Javed used to take her out of town at times on work.[14]
Pranesh Pillai (alias Javed Gulam Sheikh)
Pranesh Pillai was the son of Gopinatha Pillai, a native of Noornad in Kerala. He was married to Sajida, and had three children, including a daughter.[15]
Pranesh had migrated to Mumbai in search of a job. Before his death, he had been booked for four assault cases in Mumbai and Pune, and had also been charged with involvement in a fake currency racket.[16] In the mid-1990s, he converted to Islam and changed his name to Javed Sheikh to marry a Muslim woman called Sajida. Gujarat Police recovered two passports from Javed: one obtained using his original name Pranesh and the second one in his new name.[16]
Ishrat's family first met Javed Sheikh just two months before her death.[12] He had taken Ishrat to Nasik, Bangalore and Lucknow, where he is believed to have met Amjad.[16]
Amjad Ali Rana
Amjad Ali Rana, also known as Akbar or Salim, was alleged to be a Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist from Haveli Diwan, Pakistan. He was reportedly found dead with an AK-56 rifle near his body. Amjad is believed to have met Javed several times in Oman, and also Javed and Ishrat in Ibrahimpur once.[16] Amjad introduced Ishrat and Javed to Zeeshan, the fourth victim.
Zeeshan Johar
Zeeshan (alias Jisan Johar alias Abdul Ghani Son of Kalu alias Janbaaz), along with Amjad, is said to have been caught in a trespassing case in Srinagar in 2003.[16] Nobody claimed the bodies of Amjad and Zeeshan after the encounter.[16] An identity card with a Pakistan address was reportedly recovered from Zeeshan's body. However, a later report by the metropolitan magistrate SP Tamang stated that identity cards were forged by the police and the two men were Indian citizens, although it did not give any evidence on this.[17]
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well after the encounter i heard from my one friend that the encounter was fake, they already kill them before and put them on road. I am told it before the issue of fake encounter raised.
