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Delhi
Police officer to head probe team in Ishrat Jahan case
Friday, September 24, 2010 09:16:05 PM,
IANS
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Gandhinagar:
The Gujarat High Court Friday constituted a Special Investigation
Team (SIT), headed by a senior Delhi Police officer, to probe the
killing of college student Ishrat Jahan in a suspected staged
shootout in 2004.
The SIT will be led by Delhi joint police commissioner Karnail
Singh, and have two Gujarat cadre IPS officers, Mohan Jha and
Satish Verma as members. The state government had submitted eleven
names, the central government five names and the petitioners had
submitted four names for the court's consideration to appoint the
new SIT.
A division bench comprising Justices Jayant Patel and Abhilasha
Kumari strongly criticized the stand taken by the Gujarat
government of forming a Special Task Force and a monitoring agency
by a notification dated Sep 16, which the state considered as an
option available to the court for its consideration.
When the court asked the state as to what it seeks from the court
after filing of its affidavit, the advocate general contended that
the state government "does not want outsiders to come to the state
and carry out investigation". He submitted that the officers of
the state were capable enough to carry out impartial and
independent investigation. He further submitted that investigation
from officers outside the state would demoralize the state police.
Following this submission, the court came down heavily on the
state government and the advocate general. The court noted that
India was "one" nation and outsiders would mean persons outside
India. The court expressed that the state's submission and
affidavit was to indirectly dilute the judicial order of a
constitutional court through an executive order.
The court rejected the stand taken by the state government. The
court also directed the government to provide necessary
infrastructure and facilities to the new SIT. The new SIT has been
directed to submit report within three months. The decision came
after a review petition was filed by the petitioners and a letter
by the apex court-appointed SIT showing its inability to carry out
the probe.
The apex court 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 the key 2002 communal riot cases in Gujarat. The
Gujarat High Court on Aug 12, had handed over investigation of the
case to the Supreme Court appointed Special Investigation Team
(SIT) which was later stayed by the apex court.
Mukul Sinha, the counsel for Gopinath Pillai, father of Javed
alias Pranesh Pillai who was killed in the alleged staged
shoot-out alongside Ishrat Jahan and others, had suggested the
names of DIG Rahul Sharma, DIG Rajnish Rai, IG Satish Verma, and
Additional DGP Tirth Raj. However, counsel for Ishrat Jahan's
mother Shamima Kausar sought only a CBI probe and refused to
propose any names.
Mumbai college girl Ishrat Jahan, Pranesh Pillai alias Javed
Sheikh, Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar were killed in an alleged
staged shootout 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 staged
shootout case. The four were termed by the crime branch as part of
the Lashkar-e-Taiba outfit out to eliminate Chief Minister
Narendra Modi.
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