Ahmedabad: Former Gujarat cop DG Vanzara will go home today for the first time in nine years. He was showered with petals by supporters at the Ahmedabad airport where he landed this morning.
A chariot awaited Mr Vanzara, who hopped on to it for a while and said, "This welcome is not for me, but for the Gujarat police." He then got into a car and drove off to Gandhinagar for another felicitation.
About 500 supporters, many of them wearing caps with the slogan Bharat Mata ki Jai received Mr Vanzara at the airport.
Earlier this month, a CBI court relaxed bail conditions for the retired police officer, allowing him to return to Gujarat. DG Vanzara is a key accused in the alleged staged encounter to kill Mumbai teen Ishrat Jahan and three others in 2004.
On Saturday last, April 2, Mr Vanzara was allowed by the court to return to Gujarat on the condition that he will present himself before the court every Saturday.
Mr Vanzara was Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) in the Ahmedabad crime branch when college student Ishrat Jahan and three others were shot dead by the Gujarat police on the outskirts of the city on June 15, 2004.
Once celebrated as a "Encounter cop" and "supercop", Mr Vanzara was arrested in April 2007 and sent to prison in connection with the alleged staged encounter killing of small-time criminal Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his associate Tulsi Prajapati. In September 2014, a Mumbai court granted him bail in the Soharabuddin and Prajapati cases, but he had remained in jail in connection with the Ishrat Jahan case.
A chariot awaited Mr Vanzara, who hopped on to it for a while and said, "This welcome is not for me, but for the Gujarat police." He then got into a car and drove off to Gandhinagar for another felicitation.
About 500 supporters, many of them wearing caps with the slogan Bharat Mata ki Jai received Mr Vanzara at the airport.
Supporters of Gujarat Cop DG Vanzara, many of them wearing caps, outside the airport
Earlier this month, a CBI court relaxed bail conditions for the retired police officer, allowing him to return to Gujarat. DG Vanzara is a key accused in the alleged staged encounter to kill Mumbai teen Ishrat Jahan and three others in 2004.
On Saturday last, April 2, Mr Vanzara was allowed by the court to return to Gujarat on the condition that he will present himself before the court every Saturday.
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Mr Vanzara was Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) in the Ahmedabad crime branch when college student Ishrat Jahan and three others were shot dead by the Gujarat police on the outskirts of the city on June 15, 2004.
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Once celebrated as a "Encounter cop" and "supercop", Mr Vanzara was arrested in April 2007 and sent to prison in connection with the alleged staged encounter killing of small-time criminal Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his associate Tulsi Prajapati. In September 2014, a Mumbai court granted him bail in the Soharabuddin and Prajapati cases, but he had remained in jail in connection with the Ishrat Jahan case.
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