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High
court adjourns hearing in Ishrat Jahan case
Friday, September 03, 2010 08:09:03 PM,
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Gandhinagar:
The Gujarat High Court Friday adjourned the hearing in the Ishrat
Jahan staged shoot-out case to Sep 9 with the Supreme Court still
considering the matter and the Special Investigation Team (SIT)
conveying its inability to probe the case.
A division bench of judges Jayant Patel and Abhilasha Kumari
adjourned the hearing after the Supreme Court appointed SIT headed
by R.K. Raghavan, a former CBI director, conveying in writing its
inability to take up the case.
The High Court had Aug 23, while hearing a review petition filed
in the case, asked the advocate general to verify and bring on
record by Aug 31 whether or not the SIT was inclined to take up
the case.
The Supreme Court had Aug 27 restrained the Gujarat government
from entrusting the Ishrat Jahan case to the SIT that is probing
the 2001 post-Godhra communal riots in the state.
A bench headed by judge B. Sudershan Reddy passed the order on an
application by advocate Brinda Grover, appearing for Shamina
Kausar, the mother of Ishrat Jahan, challenging the Gujarat High
Court's decision to entrust the case to the SIT.
The high court had, on an earlier plea by Kausar, decided to
entrust the case to the SIT on the basis of the findings of
magistrate S.P. Tamang that it was a fake shootout and
cold-blooded murder. Ishrat's family is, however, opposed to a
probe by the SIT and wants the case to be investigated by the CBI
on the lines of the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake shootout.
Kausar and Gopinath Pillai, the father of Pranesh alias Javed
Pillai, one of those killed along with Ishrat and two others in
2004 on the outskirts of Ahmedabad , have been fighting a
protracted legal battle for justice.
The police claim that Ishrat and Pranesh were Lashkar-e-Taiba
operatives involved in a plot to assassinate Gujarat Chief
Minister Narendra Modi while the parents assert that it was a
staged shootout carried out by then deputy inspector general of
police D.G. Vanzara on the pattern of the Sohrabuddin Sheikh
staged shootout.
Vanzara, along with two other Indian Police Service officers, is
already behind bars in connection with the killing of Sohrabuddin
and his wife Kauserbi.
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