Ahmedabad: Former Gujarat Intelligence Bureau chief Rajinder Kumar has been charged with murder and three serving officers have been accused of conspiracy in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case. Ishrat, a 19-year-old college student, was killed by policemen in an alleged fake encounter 10 years ago.
In its supplementary chargesheet filed today, the Central Bureau of Investigation has also accused Rajinder Kumar and the three serving IB officers - P Mittal, MK Sinha and Rajiv Wankhede - of conspiracy and illegal confinement.
Mr Kumar has been charged under the Arms Act too; the CBI has alleged that he provided the weapons used by the Gujarat cops to kill Ishrat and three others and an AK-56 that, the agency alleges, was planted at the scene of the shooting to portray the victims as terrorists.
The IB had vehemently objected to Mr Kumar's interrogation by the CBI in the case last year, arguing that it would affect the morale down the ranks of the IB and also that it would set a dangerous precedent because its members often work undercover and have sources that would dry up if its officers were entangled in police cases. The home ministry had backed the IB.
In its first charge-sheet in July last year, the CBI accused seven senior policemen of murdering Ishrat and the others "in cold blood". Amid the tension with the IB, it did not name Mr Kumar, who was then serving. He retired about a month later.
In its supplementary chargesheet filed today, the Central Bureau of Investigation has also accused Rajinder Kumar and the three serving IB officers - P Mittal, MK Sinha and Rajiv Wankhede - of conspiracy and illegal confinement.
Mr Kumar has been charged under the Arms Act too; the CBI has alleged that he provided the weapons used by the Gujarat cops to kill Ishrat and three others and an AK-56 that, the agency alleges, was planted at the scene of the shooting to portray the victims as terrorists.
The IB had vehemently objected to Mr Kumar's interrogation by the CBI in the case last year, arguing that it would affect the morale down the ranks of the IB and also that it would set a dangerous precedent because its members often work undercover and have sources that would dry up if its officers were entangled in police cases. The home ministry had backed the IB.
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In its first charge-sheet in July last year, the CBI accused seven senior policemen of murdering Ishrat and the others "in cold blood". Amid the tension with the IB, it did not name Mr Kumar, who was then serving. He retired about a month later.
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