IPS officer Vanzara remanded in CBI custody in Ishrat case
6 Jun 2013 12:06 AM GMT
A local court on Wednesday remanded suspended IPS officer D G Vanzara in CBI custody till 10 June in the Ishrat Jahan encounter killing case.
Magistrate S H Khutwad granted CBI custody of Vanzara till 10 June though the investigating officer deputy superintendent of police G Kalaimani had asked for 14 days’ remand.
Vanzara was arrested by CBI yesterday following his transfer to Sabarmati Central jail here from Mumbai. He was in Mumbai jail as an accused in the Sohrabuddin Shaikh encounter killing case of 2005. He is also an accused in the Tulsi Prajapati encounter killing case.
CBI lawyer T K Srivastava argued the agency needed to question him to find out the role of the intelligence agency which had provided inputs on the basis of which Gujarat police had claimed to have acted at the time.
‘CBI also wants his custody for the recovery of weapons used during the encounter,’ Srivastava said.
Mumbra-based Ishrat Jahan, Javed Shaikh alias Pranesh Pillai and alleged Pakistani nationals Zeeshan Johar and Amjad Ali Rana were killed in an encounter on the outskirts of the city on 15 June, 2004.
Gujarat police claimed they were part of a conspiracy to assassinate Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Following Ishrat’s mother’s petition, the Gujarat high court constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), which concluded that the encounter was fake.
At Wednesday’s hearing, opposing the remand plea, Vanzara’s lawyer V D Gajjar argued he was in jail since 25 April, 2007 after he was arrested by Gujarat police in Sohrabuddin encounter case.
 ‘How can CBI discover or recover weapons as Vanzara is in jail for the past six years?’ he said.
Vanzara’s lawyer further added, ‘K R Kaushik was Commissioner of Police for Ahmedabad city. Vanzara had no role to generate those inputs or no one shared inputs with him. And CBI has to date neither interrogeted nor arrested Kaushik.’
Magistrate S H Khutwad granted CBI custody of Vanzara till 10 June though the investigating officer deputy superintendent of police G Kalaimani had asked for 14 days’ remand.
Vanzara was arrested by CBI yesterday following his transfer to Sabarmati Central jail here from Mumbai. He was in Mumbai jail as an accused in the Sohrabuddin Shaikh encounter killing case of 2005. He is also an accused in the Tulsi Prajapati encounter killing case.
CBI lawyer T K Srivastava argued the agency needed to question him to find out the role of the intelligence agency which had provided inputs on the basis of which Gujarat police had claimed to have acted at the time.
‘CBI also wants his custody for the recovery of weapons used during the encounter,’ Srivastava said.
Mumbra-based Ishrat Jahan, Javed Shaikh alias Pranesh Pillai and alleged Pakistani nationals Zeeshan Johar and Amjad Ali Rana were killed in an encounter on the outskirts of the city on 15 June, 2004.
Gujarat police claimed they were part of a conspiracy to assassinate Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Following Ishrat’s mother’s petition, the Gujarat high court constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), which concluded that the encounter was fake.
At Wednesday’s hearing, opposing the remand plea, Vanzara’s lawyer V D Gajjar argued he was in jail since 25 April, 2007 after he was arrested by Gujarat police in Sohrabuddin encounter case.
 ‘How can CBI discover or recover weapons as Vanzara is in jail for the past six years?’ he said.
Vanzara’s lawyer further added, ‘K R Kaushik was Commissioner of Police for Ahmedabad city. Vanzara had no role to generate those inputs or no one shared inputs with him. And CBI has to date neither interrogeted nor arrested Kaushik.’
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