Ishrat Jehan Fake 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.

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 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.

Notwithstanding the political slug fest over the alleged fake encounter case of Ishrat Jahan, its trial is stuck for last two years in Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court for want of sanction from the Centre to prosecute Intelligence Bureau (IB) officers who have been chargesheeted by the probe agency.

CBI director Anil Sinha today refused to be drawn into the issue of American-Pakistani terrorist David Headley's recent testimony in 26/11 case that Ishrat Jehan was a LeT terrorist, saying the matter is sub-judice. He noted that the agency has already submitted the chargesheet in the alleged fake encounter case of Ishrat Jehan.

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.

The Supreme Court today agreed to hear a plea seeking dismissal 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.

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.

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 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.

Notwithstanding the political slug fest over the alleged fake encounter case of Ishrat Jahan, its trial is stuck for last two years in Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court for want of sanction from the Centre to prosecute Intelligence Bureau (IB) officers who have been chargesheeted by the probe agency.

CBI director Anil Sinha today refused to be drawn into the issue of American-Pakistani terrorist David Headley's recent testimony in 26/11 case that Ishrat Jehan was a LeT terrorist, saying the matter is sub-judice. He noted that the agency has already submitted the chargesheet in the alleged fake encounter case of Ishrat Jehan.

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.

The Supreme Court today agreed to hear a plea seeking dismissal 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.