When constables refused to shoot, seniors opened fire
5 July 2013 5:30 AM IST
Two cops belonging to the crime branch of Gujarat Police had refused to fire at Ishrat Jahan and three others on the morning 15 June 2004. According to sources in the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI), ‘At least two cops refused to open fire at them after which the accused police officers pushed them aside and killed the four in cold blood in fake encounter,’ sources said.
These two cops may be made prosecution witness in the case, said sources, adding that assistant commissioner of police GL Singhal had Zeeshan Ali in illegal custody since April, while Deputy Superintendents of Police (DSPs) NK Amin and TA Barot picked up Amjad Ali illegaly on 26 May 2004. They also abducted Ishrat Jahan and Javed Sheikh on 12 June 2004 from a toll booth in Anand district in Gujarat.
‘The three police officers – DG Vanzara, NK Amin and GL Singhal – had met these detainees while they were in illegal custody,’ the sources said. On the day of the encounter, they revealed, at about 4 am NK Amin, JR Parmar, GL Singhal, TA Barot, Mohan Kalsaba and Anaji Chaudhary opened fire from their official weapons, after the two constables refused to fire on Ishrat, Javed and Zeeshan who were sitting in the Indica car, while Amjad Ali Rana was made to stand behind the car on a road divider before being shot at,’ the sources said.
CBI sources further added that it was IPS officer DG Vanzara who drafted the encounter FIR even before it took place. CBI on Wednesdayfiled chargesheet in Gujarat High Court claiming the encounter of Ishrat Jahan and three others as fake. Gujarat policemen DG Vanzara, GL Singhal, PP Pandey, Anaji Choudhary, Tarun Barot, JR Parmar and NK Amin have been named as accused. The Intelligence Bureau special director Rajinder Kumar was not named as accused in this charge-sheet but the document did make his reference and his role is still being probed.
The CBI is likely to file a supplementary charge-sheet in this case soon which may have more new big names.
A day after the CBI told a court that Mumbai college student Ishrat Jahan and three other persons had been murdered by Gujarat Police and the Intelligence Bureau (IB) in a staged gunfight, home minister Sushilkumar Shinde said the guilty should be punished.
These two cops may be made prosecution witness in the case, said sources, adding that assistant commissioner of police GL Singhal had Zeeshan Ali in illegal custody since April, while Deputy Superintendents of Police (DSPs) NK Amin and TA Barot picked up Amjad Ali illegaly on 26 May 2004. They also abducted Ishrat Jahan and Javed Sheikh on 12 June 2004 from a toll booth in Anand district in Gujarat.
‘The three police officers – DG Vanzara, NK Amin and GL Singhal – had met these detainees while they were in illegal custody,’ the sources said. On the day of the encounter, they revealed, at about 4 am NK Amin, JR Parmar, GL Singhal, TA Barot, Mohan Kalsaba and Anaji Chaudhary opened fire from their official weapons, after the two constables refused to fire on Ishrat, Javed and Zeeshan who were sitting in the Indica car, while Amjad Ali Rana was made to stand behind the car on a road divider before being shot at,’ the sources said.
CBI sources further added that it was IPS officer DG Vanzara who drafted the encounter FIR even before it took place. CBI on Wednesdayfiled chargesheet in Gujarat High Court claiming the encounter of Ishrat Jahan and three others as fake. Gujarat policemen DG Vanzara, GL Singhal, PP Pandey, Anaji Choudhary, Tarun Barot, JR Parmar and NK Amin have been named as accused. The Intelligence Bureau special director Rajinder Kumar was not named as accused in this charge-sheet but the document did make his reference and his role is still being probed.
The CBI is likely to file a supplementary charge-sheet in this case soon which may have more new big names.
A day after the CBI told a court that Mumbai college student Ishrat Jahan and three other persons had been murdered by Gujarat Police and the Intelligence Bureau (IB) in a staged gunfight, home minister Sushilkumar Shinde said the guilty should be punished.
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