New Delhi: Gujarat government has set up a three-member committee to look into the Ishrat Jahan killing case, following Gujarat HC’s order to set had asked for setting up probe team.
The probe panel comprises ADGP Pramod Kumar, IG Mohan Jha and DIG J K Bhat and have six months to file its report
Ishrat Jehan and her husband were allegedly gunned down in June 2004 after being suspected as being the agents for Lashkar-e-Toiba.
Top police officials - DG Vanzara (DIG, border range), Rajkumar Pandiyan (SP intelligence bureau) and Dinesh M N (SP Alwar, Rajasthan) jailed in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case – were also involved in this shoot out.
The is more trouble in store for Gujarat police as a woman in Mumbai has declared her plans to move the Bombay High Court for reopening a probe into the killing of her 19-year-old daughter, Ishrat Jahan Raza, in an ‘encounter’ by the state police for her alleged terrorist activities.
Vanzara was a senior officer in the Crime Branch of Gujarat police when Ishrat, an undergraduate science student in a Mumbai college, was killed along with three others in an encounter in Gujarat on June 15, 2004.
The Gujarat police had alleged at the time that Ishrat and her companions were members of the Lashkar-e-Toiba militant outfit and they were planning to assassinate Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, an allegation refuted by her family members.
"We had said that there was some foul play involved, but the matter was not taken up properly by our state government which should have done more," Shamima said.
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