Ahmedabad, July 27, 2013
The CBI charge sheet, filed on July 3, termed it a fake encounter killing
Seven Gujarat Police officers were named in preliminary charge sheet
As CBI has already filed charge sheet, we do not deem it necessary to continue, said Division Bench
The Gujarat High Court on Friday announced that it would no longer monitor the Ishrat Jahan encounter case as the Central Bureau of Investigation had filed a charge sheet in a special CBI court.
In the charge sheet filed on July 3, the CBI — which has been investigating the case on high court orders — had termed the encounter killing of Ishrat Jahan and three others as fake and a “joint operation” of the Gujarat Police and the Central Intelligence Bureau (IB).
A Division Bench of Justices Jayant Patel and Abhilasha Kumari stated that since the charge sheet had already been filed, it need not monitor the investigation henceforth.
“Since the magistrate’s court is already in possession of the charge sheet, we do not deem it necessary to continue the monitoring,” the Bench said.
Seven Gujarat Police officers, including suspended IPS officers G.L. Singhal, N.K. Amin, D.G. Vanzara, retired Deputy Superintendent of Police J.G. Parmar, DSP Tarun Barot, commando Anaju Chaudhary and absconding Additional Director-General of Police P.P. Pandey were named as accused in the first charge sheet.
IB Special Director Rajinder Kumar may, according to sources, figure in the supplementary charge sheet that will be filed after he retires on July 31 this year.
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