Ahmedabad: A special CBI court on Wednesday discharged former Gujarat in-charge DGP P P Pandey in 2004 alleged fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan and three others, in which he was an accused.
Special CBI court judge J K Pandya allowed Pandey's discharge application on the ground that there was no
evidence against him related
to the kidnapping and murder of Ishrat Jahan and three others. The CBI, which investigated the case, had accused Pandey, who then headed the Ahmedabad crime branch, as being involved in the alleged fake encounter.
The court on Wednesday said that no witnesses accused Pandey of the murder and kidnapping of the victims.
It also said that the witnesses' evidence was contradictory as they gave different pieces of evidence to various investigating agencies.
In the first charge sheet filed by the CBI in 2013, seven Gujarat police officers were named as accused, including IPS officers P P Pandey, D G Vanzara and G L Singhal, facing charges for kidnapping, murder and conspiracy.