Ahmedabad:
The Central Bureau of Investigation will file its first chargesheet in the Ishrat Jahan case today in a court in Ahmedabad. The agency will reportedly stress that the college student and three others were killed by the Ahmedabad police in a fake encounter, and will list the police officers involved in the shooting as the accused - most of them are in jail.
Sources say that the chargesheet will refer to senior intelligence officer Rajendra Kumar, but will not list him as an accused. Mr Kumar was the Gujarat station chief of the Intelligence Bureau when Ishrat and the others were killed; the policemen involved said they had received alerts that the group planned to assassinate Chief Minister
Narendra Modi on behalf of terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Mr Kumar's interrogation by the CBI has created a sharp divide between his agency and the CBI, which plans to name him as an accused in its next chargesheet, to be filed most likely after he retires at the end of July. He has said that though he shared information with the police about the possibility of Ishrat and the others being terrorists, he did not sanction the encounter.
The CBI, however, says it has testimony from eyewitnesses and other evidence that will later show how Mr Kumar played a key role in the conspiracy and the murders.
Today's chargesheet will also exclude senior police officers PP Pandey and KR Kaushik.
Those who are likely to be named today as accused include policemen who carried out the shooting. Among them is DG Vanzara, who is in jail. He has also been charged with conspiracy and murder in the Ishrat encounter case.