CBI gives clean chit to Amit Shah in Ishrat Jahan encounter case
The Central Bureau of Investigation is
ready to file a supplementary
chargesheet in the Ishrat Jahan
murder case and BJP general
secretary Amit Shah has not been
named in it.
The CBI sources have said that BJP
general secretary, who was the
Gujarat home minister Narendra
Modi at the time of the encounter,
will not be named in the case as
speculated.
The agency sources also say they are
taking advise from Law Ministry on
whether they need permission to
prosecute IB officers in Ishrat Jahan
case or not.
CBI sources said they have gathered
enough evidence about the role of IB
officers in the conspiracy behind the
encounter but there are contrary
views on whether sanction from
Home Ministry is needed to prosecute
Special Director Rajinder Kumar
(now retired), and three other
officers, P Mittal, MK Sinha and Rajiv
Wankhede.
Earlier, the CBI had filed chargesheet
on July 3 terming the encounter fake
and saying it was a joint operation
between Gujarat Police and
Intelligence Bureau (IB).
The latest development in the case
will come as a major relief for Shah
and Modi in view of the 2014 Lok
Sabha elections which are just a few
months away.
Ishrat Jahan, Javed Shaikh, Zeeshan
Johar and Amjad Ali were killed in
Ahmedabad on June 16, 2004. Police
officials have claimed that all four
were Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists on a
mission to kill Modi.
The Gujarat High Court asked CBI to investigate the case after Ishrat's mother and Javed's father filed petitions seeking a CBI probe.
- With PTI inputs
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