Ahmedabad:
The SIT, probing the 2004 encounter death of Ishrat Jahan and three others, today interrogated suspended IPS officer D G Vanzara in Sabarmati Central Jail here in connection with the case.
Vanzara, an accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case of 2005, was heading the state anti-terrorist squad (ATS) at the time of the Ishrat encounter.
Sources in the SIT said Vanzara was questioned in connection with the Ishrat encounter, but refused to divulge details.
They said a team from the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) was here to reconstruct the scene of the incident once again to gather data about the encounter. The reconstruction is likely to be done tomorrow at the actual encounter site near Kotarpur village on outskirts of the city.
The team had earlier reconstructed the crime scene in April.
Probe in the case is being supervised directly by the Gujarat High Court which had constituted the SIT last year to investigate genuineness of the encounter after petitions filed by Ishrat's mother Shamima Kausar and Gopinath Pillai, father of another victim of the encounter Javed Sheikh alias Pranesh Pillai.
The SIT is headed by ADGP Satyapal Singh, who had recently requested the court to relieve him of the responsibilities citing various reasons. Other members of the team include IPS officers Mohan Jha and Satish Verma.
Ishrat along with Sheikh, Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar were allegedly killed in a police encounter on June 15, 2004. After the encounter, city crime branch had claimed that the deceased were LeT terrorists who had come to kill Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
Vanzara, an accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case of 2005, was heading the state anti-terrorist squad (ATS) at the time of the Ishrat encounter.
Sources in the SIT said Vanzara was questioned in connection with the Ishrat encounter, but refused to divulge details.
They said a team from the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) was here to reconstruct the scene of the incident once again to gather data about the encounter. The reconstruction is likely to be done tomorrow at the actual encounter site near Kotarpur village on outskirts of the city.
The team had earlier reconstructed the crime scene in April.
Probe in the case is being supervised directly by the Gujarat High Court which had constituted the SIT last year to investigate genuineness of the encounter after petitions filed by Ishrat's mother Shamima Kausar and Gopinath Pillai, father of another victim of the encounter Javed Sheikh alias Pranesh Pillai.
The SIT is headed by ADGP Satyapal Singh, who had recently requested the court to relieve him of the responsibilities citing various reasons. Other members of the team include IPS officers Mohan Jha and Satish Verma.
Ishrat along with Sheikh, Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar were allegedly killed in a police encounter on June 15, 2004. After the encounter, city crime branch had claimed that the deceased were LeT terrorists who had come to kill Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
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