The Gujarat government has set up a team of three senior IPS officers to reinvestigate the Ishrat Jehan encounter case of 2004. The move came after the Gujarat High Court ordered a fresh probe into the case on the basis of a petition by Ishrat's mother.
The killings are one of Gujarat's most controversial encounter killings. The police had claimed that Ishrat was a Lashkar operative.
Nineteen-year-old Ishrat Jehan and three others were killed in June 2004 by a team of Ahmedabad Crime Branch led by the then DIG Vanjara who is now in jail for the Sohrabuddin encounter case.
Police had claimed that Ishrat was a Lashkar operative who was targetting Chief Minister Narendra Modi, but Ishrat's mother went to the high court asking for a CBI investigation which was rejected by the court.
After Ishrat's mother demanded a fresh probe, the HC recently ordered the state government to submit a list of IPS officers who could investigate the encounter.
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