Chidambaram Ishrat Jehan

A three-month search has failed to exhume crucial documents that were supposed to lay bare how the previous Congress-led government changed its stand on whether Ishrat Jehan, a 19-year-old college student killed in Gujarat, was a terrorist.

A home ministry inquiry has established that documents relating to the Ishrat Jahan encounter case have indeed gone missing during the tenure of former home minister P Chidambaram. But it failed to pin down responsibility - mentioning only that the papers were "removed" or "misplaced". Now, the government may order a CBI inquiry to establish culpab...

Former finance minister P Chidambaram today admitted to having made "editorial" changes to the affidavits filed in the Ishrat Jehan case.

The opposition Congress was under attack in Parliament today over the Ishrat Jehan case, with the ruling BJP accusing P Chidambaram of manipulating documents when he was home minister.

The Lok Sabha is likely to discuss tomorrow the raging controversy over the affidavits filed in the Ishrat Jehan encounter killing case when it takes up a calling-attention notice on the issue.

Allegations that the Congress-led UPA may have tried to manipulate terrorist David Coleman Headley's testimony on Ishrat Jehan's alleged terror links resurfaced today with sharp focus on an investigating officer who was not allowed to appear before the CBI.

After days of repeated disruptions, and some this morning, both houses of Parliament have functioned today, thanks mainly to some tactical manoeuvring by the government.

The official behind the home ministry affidavits that have fuelled a fresh political battle over the Ishrat Jehan case has alleged that he was tortured with cigarette butts and hounded by the CBI almost to the point that he wanted to quit.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi has come out in support of P Chidambaram, who has been bombarded with allegations by the ruling BJP over the Ishrat Jehan case.

The ruling BJP today alleged that P Chidambaram as Home Minister rewrote an affidavit submitted to a court on the Ishrat Jehan case on orders from the Congress leadership, which, the party alleged, wanted to frame Narendra Modi. "The government is not closed to the option of a judicial probe in the entire episode," Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasa...

Joining the debate, former Union home secretary RK Singh today claimed that the affidavit on the controversial Ishrat Jehan case was changed due to political reasons.

Former Home Secretary GK Pillai has alleged that P Chidambaram as Home Minister "bypassed him" and rewrote an affidavit submitted to a court on Ishrat Jehan, the 19-year-old college student killed in an encounter in 2004.

College student Ishrat Jehan's encounter killing in 2004 is being reexamined after a fresh political controversy over comments by GK Pillai, who was home secretary when the Congress-led UPA was in power.

BJP leader Subramanian Swamy today suggested the Centre to file a contempt petition against former home minister P Chidambaram for allegedly filing a wrong affidavit in the Ishrat Jehan case.

A three-month search has failed to exhume crucial documents that were supposed to lay bare how the previous Congress-led government changed its stand on whether Ishrat Jehan, a 19-year-old college student killed in Gujarat, was a terrorist.

A home ministry inquiry has established that documents relating to the Ishrat Jahan encounter case have indeed gone missing during the tenure of former home minister P Chidambaram. But it failed to pin down responsibility - mentioning only that the papers were "removed" or "misplaced". Now, the government may order a CBI inquiry to establish culpab...

Former finance minister P Chidambaram today admitted to having made "editorial" changes to the affidavits filed in the Ishrat Jehan case.

The opposition Congress was under attack in Parliament today over the Ishrat Jehan case, with the ruling BJP accusing P Chidambaram of manipulating documents when he was home minister.

The Lok Sabha is likely to discuss tomorrow the raging controversy over the affidavits filed in the Ishrat Jehan encounter killing case when it takes up a calling-attention notice on the issue.

Allegations that the Congress-led UPA may have tried to manipulate terrorist David Coleman Headley's testimony on Ishrat Jehan's alleged terror links resurfaced today with sharp focus on an investigating officer who was not allowed to appear before the CBI.

After days of repeated disruptions, and some this morning, both houses of Parliament have functioned today, thanks mainly to some tactical manoeuvring by the government.

The official behind the home ministry affidavits that have fuelled a fresh political battle over the Ishrat Jehan case has alleged that he was tortured with cigarette butts and hounded by the CBI almost to the point that he wanted to quit.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi has come out in support of P Chidambaram, who has been bombarded with allegations by the ruling BJP over the Ishrat Jehan case.

The ruling BJP today alleged that P Chidambaram as Home Minister rewrote an affidavit submitted to a court on the Ishrat Jehan case on orders from the Congress leadership, which, the party alleged, wanted to frame Narendra Modi. "The government is not closed to the option of a judicial probe in the entire episode," Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasa...

Joining the debate, former Union home secretary RK Singh today claimed that the affidavit on the controversial Ishrat Jehan case was changed due to political reasons.

Former Home Secretary GK Pillai has alleged that P Chidambaram as Home Minister "bypassed him" and rewrote an affidavit submitted to a court on Ishrat Jehan, the 19-year-old college student killed in an encounter in 2004.

College student Ishrat Jehan's encounter killing in 2004 is being reexamined after a fresh political controversy over comments by GK Pillai, who was home secretary when the Congress-led UPA was in power.

BJP leader Subramanian Swamy today suggested the Centre to file a contempt petition against former home minister P Chidambaram for allegedly filing a wrong affidavit in the Ishrat Jehan case.