19-year-old college student Ishrat Jahan was killed in 2004
Gandhinagar:
The Central Bureau of Investigation is questioning Gujarat's former home minister Praful Patel at an undisclosed location in Gandhinagar in connection with the Ishrat Jahan encounter case. Yesterday the state's Law Minister Pradeep Singh Jadeja was questioned by the agency.
Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama and Advocate General Kamal Trivedi have also been summoned by the CBI over audio tapes of a meeting in 2011, on which voices purportedly belonging to ministers and officials of the state government discuss derailing investigations into the killing of 19-year-old college student Ishrat Jahan. The meeting was allegedly held in Mr Trivedi's house.
In that meeting, the ministers and officials allegedly discussed ways to discredit the Special Investigation Team's probe into the killings.
The CBI has already questioned two officials who attended the meeting, AK Sharma and GC Murmu.
Ishrat was shot along with three men on the outskirts of Ahmedabad in 2004, by the Crime Branch of the Gujarat Police, which claimed that all four were terrorists involved in a plot to kill Narendra Modi.
The CBI in its chargesheet in July said seven cops had shot the group "in cold blood" and destroyed evidence.
One of the accused policemen, senior IPS officer DG Vanzara, recently submitted his resignation accusing the Modi government of using cops to promote their agenda and then abandoning them. Vanzara said policemen like him had acted in compliance with a conscious policy of the Modi government.
Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama and Advocate General Kamal Trivedi have also been summoned by the CBI over audio tapes of a meeting in 2011, on which voices purportedly belonging to ministers and officials of the state government discuss derailing investigations into the killing of 19-year-old college student Ishrat Jahan. The meeting was allegedly held in Mr Trivedi's house.
In that meeting, the ministers and officials allegedly discussed ways to discredit the Special Investigation Team's probe into the killings.
The CBI has already questioned two officials who attended the meeting, AK Sharma and GC Murmu.
Ishrat was shot along with three men on the outskirts of Ahmedabad in 2004, by the Crime Branch of the Gujarat Police, which claimed that all four were terrorists involved in a plot to kill Narendra Modi.
The CBI in its chargesheet in July said seven cops had shot the group "in cold blood" and destroyed evidence.
One of the accused policemen, senior IPS officer DG Vanzara, recently submitted his resignation accusing the Modi government of using cops to promote their agenda and then abandoning them. Vanzara said policemen like him had acted in compliance with a conscious policy of the Modi government.
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