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Gujarat
High Court gets free hand in Ishrat Jahan case
Monday, September 06, 2010 10:14:56 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
The Supreme Court Monday said the Gujarat High Court is free to
appoint any agency to investigate the 2004 Ishrat Jahan shootout
killing in Ahmedabad.
The apex court bench of Justice B. Sudershann Reddy and Justice
S.S. Nijjar passed this order after R.K. Raghavan, the head of
Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigative Team (SIT) probing
the 2002 post-Godhra communal riots in the state, refused to
undertake the probe into the matter.
Ishrat Jahan, a college student from Mumbai, was allegedly gunned
down by Gujarat police in Ahmedabad June 15, 2004. The state
police claimed she was linked with a terror outfit.
The SIT was directed by the high court Aug 12 to undertake fresh
investigations into the Ishrat Jahan case in which three others
were also killed.
The apex court bench frowned on the high court direction and asked
how it could direct the SIT to undertake investigation into
another matter.
The apex court by its Aug 27 order stayed the high court direction
to issue notification for the transfer of investigation into the
Ishrat Jahan case from the state police to the SIT.
Ishrat's family, however, opposed a probe by the SIT and wanted
the case to be investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation
(CBI) on the lines of the Sohrabuddin Sheikh staged shootout.
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 Chief
Metropolitan Magistrate S.P. Tamang that it was a fake shootout
and cold-blooded murder.
The Supreme Court Monday also issued notice on the Gujarat
government's petition, challenging the high court verdict that
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate S.P. Tamang's report on Ishrat Jahan
shootout case was within its jurisdiction.
The high court had passed this order after the state government
challenged Tamang's report, wherein he had contested the state
police claim Ishrat Jahan's shootout killing.
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