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Ishrat
Jahan killing: Court inquires about SIT’s view
Monday, August 23, 2010 11:49:08 PM,
IANS |
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Gandhinagar:
The Gujarat High Court Monday asked the advocate general to verify
if the Supreme Court-appointed special investigation team (SIT) was
inclined to take up the probe into the 2004 Ishrat Jahan killing in
a suspected staged-shootout by Gujarat Police.
The SIT, headed by former Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
director R.K. Raghavan, is probing key cases related to the 2002
post-Godhra communal riots in the state.
A division bench of Justice Jayant Patel and Justice Abhilasha
Kumari directed Advocate General Kamal Trivedi to verify whether or
not the SIT was willing to take up the responsibility entrusted to
it by the court Aug 12.
Trivedi was told to file a report by Aug 31.
Mumbai college girl Ishrat Jahan, Javed Sheikh alias Pranesh Pillai
and two others were killed June 15, 2004 in an alleged staged
shootout near Ahmedabad by a crime branch team headed by Deputy
Inspector General of Police D.G. Vanzara who is now in jail in
connection with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh staged shootout case.
The court’s direction to Trivedi came while hearing a petition of
Gopinath Pillai, father of Pranesh Pillai, and Shamima Kausar,
mother of Ishrat Jahan.
The two submitted, through advocate Mukul Sinha, that the judgment
of the high court directing the SIT to investigate the case had
erred on two grounds and it needed to be reviewed.
Sinha submitted that the court relied upon a judgment in which
circumstances were different than the present case hence reliance
could not have been placed while passing the order.
He further submitted that the court cannot direct the SIT, which was
not a statutory body but was formulated by a judicial order of the
apex court, to investigate 10 sensational riot cases of the 2002
riots, as the same could only be done by the apex court.
Sinha further demanded the CBI probe into the case.
The division bench said that as far as the contention on reliance of
the judgment was concerned, the court prima facie was not inclined
to review that part.
As far as the second contention of handing over the investigation to
SIT was concerned, the court may look into that contention for
review.
The next hearing is Aug 31.
In August 2009, an Ahmedabad metropolitan court held the killings of
Ishrat, Javed and two others as staged shootout. The police case was
that the four were part of a terror module aiming to kill Chief
Minister Narendra Modi.
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