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Ishrat
Jahan case: Centre gets last chance on SIT
Friday, September 17, 2010 10:02:49 PM,
IANS
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Gujarat
High Court gets free hand in Ishrat Jahan case
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 »
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Gandhinagar:
The Gujarat High Court Friday took the centre to task for its
delay in submitting a list of names for constituting a Special
Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the Ishrat Jahan suspected
staged shoot-out.
The move came even as the state government made available eleven
names for consideration.
A division bench of Justice Jayant Patel and Justice Abhilasha
Kumari gave the last opportunity after Assistant Solicitor General
P.S. Champaneri took the plea that the union government, busy with
other national issues, has not been able to submit the list of
names.
The court said: "The union government should keep in mind that if
a new SIT has to be formed, the union of India should have
submitted the names so that action could have been taken in time.
However, by way of last opportunity, union home ministry should
give the names of at least three officers for appointing the new
SIT."
The names of police officers submitted by Advocate General Kamal
Trivedi on behalf of the Gujarat government for inclusion in the
SIT are: Ahmedabad police commissioner Amitabh Pathak, P.C. Thakur,
Pramod Kumar, K. Kumarswamy, Mohan Jha, Sanjay Shrivastava, J.K.
Bhatt, B.D. Vaghela, D.S. Jebaliya, D.R. Patel and H.G. Patel.
The Gujarat High Court had Sep 9 asked the counsel for the parties
to suggest the names of officers for constituting a new SIT to
probe the case.
This was after the apex Court had directed the high court to
constitute an investigation team of its own but came out against
handing over the probe to the R.K. Raghavan headed SIT appointed
by it to investigate key 2002 communal riot cases in Gujarat.
The Gujarat High Court had handed over investigation of the case
to the Supreme Court appointed SIT Aug 12 which was later stayed
by the apex court.
Raghavan's SIT has shown its inability to investigate the Ishrat
Jahan case.
Mumbai college girl Ishrat Jahan, Pranesh Pillai alias Javed
Sheikh, Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar were killed in an alleged
staged shoot-out on the outskirts of Ahmedabad in June 2004, by a
team of the Ahmedabad Crime Branch headed by D.G.Vanzara, who is
now in jail on connection with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake
killing.
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