New Delhi: The CBI has reportedly decided that Rajinder Kumar, who headed the Intelligence Bureau in Gujarat, will be charged with the murder of Ishrat Jahan, a 19-year-old college student who was killed with three men in 2005 by the state police's most senior officers, who claimed the group was planning to assassinate Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
The move will aggravate the conflict the case has created between the CBI and the Intelligence Bureau.
Mr Kumar, who retired from the Intelligence Bureau in July, is expected to feature in the CBI's second chargesheet to be filed in court soon. In its first chargesheet filed in July, the agency accused seven police officers of the alleged murders.
The Intelligence Bureau has said that though it alerted the Gujarat police to the possibility that the group was affiliated to the Pakistani terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba, its officers did not authorize or participate in the extra-judicial killing. CBI sources allege that Mr Kumar provided an AK-56 that was planted at the scene of the fake encounter to make it seem like the killed quartet were heavily armed and dangerous.
The Intelligence Bureau has warned the government that interrogating or implicating its agents will dissuade officers and their sources from passing on information that could be key for national security.
The move will aggravate the conflict the case has created between the CBI and the Intelligence Bureau.
Mr Kumar, who retired from the Intelligence Bureau in July, is expected to feature in the CBI's second chargesheet to be filed in court soon. In its first chargesheet filed in July, the agency accused seven police officers of the alleged murders.
The Intelligence Bureau has said that though it alerted the Gujarat police to the possibility that the group was affiliated to the Pakistani terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba, its officers did not authorize or participate in the extra-judicial killing. CBI sources allege that Mr Kumar provided an AK-56 that was planted at the scene of the fake encounter to make it seem like the killed quartet were heavily armed and dangerous.
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The Intelligence Bureau has warned the government that interrogating or implicating its agents will dissuade officers and their sources from passing on information that could be key for national security.
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