Ishrat case: Court notice to CBI on bail plea of suspended cop
26 Nov 2014 11:25 PM GMT
Special CBI Court Judge KR Upadhyaya issued the notice to CBI and posted the matter for hearing on 12 December.
Pandey, who is behind bars since August last year, has sought regular bail in the fake encounter
stating that CBI had not produced any substantial evidence against him.
Pandey, a 1982-batch IPS officer, was the Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) in Ahmedabad when Ishrat, a Mumbai-based student, Javed Shaikh alias Pranesh Pillai, Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar were gunned down by Crime Branch sleuths on 15 June, 2004 on the outskirts of the city.
Seven Gujarat policemen, including Pandey, were named as accused and charged with murder and criminal conspiracy, among others by CBI.
The CBI had in its charge sheet filed on 3 July, 2013, said that the encounter was ‘fake’ and a joint operation between Gujarat police and Intelligence bureau.
According to the charge sheet, Pandey was very much a part of the larger conspiracy of killing four people in 2004.
The CBI also claimed that the accused police officer knew about the source of pistol, AK-56 assault rifle and other weapons and ammunition which were ‘planted’ on the bodies of the deceased at the scene of encounter.
Pandey, who is behind bars since August last year, has sought regular bail in the fake encounter
stating that CBI had not produced any substantial evidence against him.
Pandey, a 1982-batch IPS officer, was the Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) in Ahmedabad when Ishrat, a Mumbai-based student, Javed Shaikh alias Pranesh Pillai, Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar were gunned down by Crime Branch sleuths on 15 June, 2004 on the outskirts of the city.
Seven Gujarat policemen, including Pandey, were named as accused and charged with murder and criminal conspiracy, among others by CBI.
The CBI had in its charge sheet filed on 3 July, 2013, said that the encounter was ‘fake’ and a joint operation between Gujarat police and Intelligence bureau.
According to the charge sheet, Pandey was very much a part of the larger conspiracy of killing four people in 2004.
The CBI also claimed that the accused police officer knew about the source of pistol, AK-56 assault rifle and other weapons and ammunition which were ‘planted’ on the bodies of the deceased at the scene of encounter.
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