Ishrat Jehan Encounter

Former Gujarat police officers DG Vanzara and NK Amin will no longer be accused in the 2004 Ishrat Jehan fake encounter killing. A CBI court today approved their request for discharge.

Former top Gujarat police chief PP Pandey will no longer be an accused in the 2004 Ishrat Jehan fake encounter case, a court in Ahmedabad said today.

DG Vanzara, who spent nine years in prison after being accused of extra-judicial killings as a top cop in Gujarat, says that he's negotiating to join the BJP ahead of December's election. "There were brief meetings, but so far, nothing has materialized as far as joining the party is concerned. There is no truth in reports that I have sought a ticke...

A special CBI court today asked the lawyer of victim's kin in the alleged fake encounter case of Ishrat Jahan and three others, to argue their case against the discharge plea by ex-IPS officer PP Pandey.

Gujarat's top cop Director General of Police PP Pandey has resigned, it was announced, after the Supreme Court said today that it would order his removal unless he has offered to quit. The Gujarat government told the court that Mr Pandey was ready to step down and would be relieved of his post immediately. Meetings have begun in state capital Gandh...

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...

In face of the attack from Opposition Congress regarding the imposition of President's Rule in Uttarakhand, the government is set to throw a political counter: Debates on the AugustaWestland pay-off and the Ishrat Jehan encounter issue.

Terrorist David Coleman Headley told a Mumbai court today that Indian investigators who met him in the US after he was arrested in 2009 neither pressured nor tutored him to state that Ishrat Jehan, a college student killed by Gujarat's top cops, was a terrorist.

The Narendra Modi government has set up a committee to look into the issue of missing files in Ishrat Jahan case. A one-man committee, comprising Additional Secretary BK Prasad, will probe the issue of missing files -- related to the case of alleged fake encounter of June 2004, in which Ishrat Jahan was killed.

The killing of Ishrat Jehan exemplifies the political rot that has pervaded our criminal judicial system.

The Supreme Court today refused to entertain a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking quashing of criminal prosecution, suspension and other action taken against Gujarat cops in the 2004 alleged fake encounter killing of Ishrat Jehan in view of recent testimony of jailed Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative David Headley.

A former Mumbai Police commissioner and BJP lawmaker Satyapal Singh today said that as the SIT chairman he was allured by the then Congress-led UPA government to frame Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the alleged fake encounter case of Ishrat Jehan.

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.

The Supreme Court would hear on March 11 a plea seeking quashing of criminal prosecution, suspension and other actions taken against Gujarat cops in the 2004 alleged fake encounter killing of Ishrat Jehan in view of recent testimony of jailed Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative David Headley.

As controversy rages over the Ishrat Jehan case, a member of the CBI team that probed the encounter has finally broken his silence on the matter.

Former Gujarat police officers DG Vanzara and NK Amin will no longer be accused in the 2004 Ishrat Jehan fake encounter killing. A CBI court today approved their request for discharge.

Former top Gujarat police chief PP Pandey will no longer be an accused in the 2004 Ishrat Jehan fake encounter case, a court in Ahmedabad said today.

DG Vanzara, who spent nine years in prison after being accused of extra-judicial killings as a top cop in Gujarat, says that he's negotiating to join the BJP ahead of December's election. "There were brief meetings, but so far, nothing has materialized as far as joining the party is concerned. There is no truth in reports that I have sought a ticke...

A special CBI court today asked the lawyer of victim's kin in the alleged fake encounter case of Ishrat Jahan and three others, to argue their case against the discharge plea by ex-IPS officer PP Pandey.

Gujarat's top cop Director General of Police PP Pandey has resigned, it was announced, after the Supreme Court said today that it would order his removal unless he has offered to quit. The Gujarat government told the court that Mr Pandey was ready to step down and would be relieved of his post immediately. Meetings have begun in state capital Gandh...

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...

In face of the attack from Opposition Congress regarding the imposition of President's Rule in Uttarakhand, the government is set to throw a political counter: Debates on the AugustaWestland pay-off and the Ishrat Jehan encounter issue.

Terrorist David Coleman Headley told a Mumbai court today that Indian investigators who met him in the US after he was arrested in 2009 neither pressured nor tutored him to state that Ishrat Jehan, a college student killed by Gujarat's top cops, was a terrorist.

The Narendra Modi government has set up a committee to look into the issue of missing files in Ishrat Jahan case. A one-man committee, comprising Additional Secretary BK Prasad, will probe the issue of missing files -- related to the case of alleged fake encounter of June 2004, in which Ishrat Jahan was killed.

The killing of Ishrat Jehan exemplifies the political rot that has pervaded our criminal judicial system.

The Supreme Court today refused to entertain a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking quashing of criminal prosecution, suspension and other action taken against Gujarat cops in the 2004 alleged fake encounter killing of Ishrat Jehan in view of recent testimony of jailed Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative David Headley.

A former Mumbai Police commissioner and BJP lawmaker Satyapal Singh today said that as the SIT chairman he was allured by the then Congress-led UPA government to frame Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the alleged fake encounter case of Ishrat Jehan.

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.

The Supreme Court would hear on March 11 a plea seeking quashing of criminal prosecution, suspension and other actions taken against Gujarat cops in the 2004 alleged fake encounter killing of Ishrat Jehan in view of recent testimony of jailed Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative David Headley.

As controversy rages over the Ishrat Jehan case, a member of the CBI team that probed the encounter has finally broken his silence on the matter.