Guilty in Ishrat case should be punished: Shinde

Jul 11, 2013 |

Age Correspondent

As the CBI-intelligence Bureau stand-off over the controversy surrounding the killing of Mumbai girl Ishrat Jahan by the Gujarat police in an alleged fake encounter continues, Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Wednesday refused to step in defence of the IB saying, “the CBI probe is on. Those guilty must be punished’’.

Mr Shinde also said that the probe will try to find out if Ishrat was a “terrorist.’’ “Wo to main malumat le raha hoon abhi (I am trying to get the information),” Mr Shinde told reporters when asked whether or not the 19-year-old girl killed was a terrorist.
The minister accepted that divergence of opinion exists between IB, which coordinated with the Gujarat police, and the CBI probing the incident over the issue. “I know there has been difference of opinion but we will get all the information,” Mr Shinde said.
Mr Shinde said that “every agency has a certain mandate and identity under which it functions’’. “But if someone has done something wrong, why give him protection. The guilty have to be punished,” he said. Mr Shinde, however, refused to comment on the CBI investigation suggesting involvement of one of the IB’s special directors Rajinder Kumar. “I don’t want to comment anything on it. The CBI probe is going on,” he added.

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