Initial probe by the CBI into the alleged Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case has revealed that the Mumbai-based teenagers and her three other friends did not fire even a single bullet at the Gujarat cops during the incident.
Ishrat Jahan and three others — Pranesh Pillai, alias Javed Sheikh, Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar — were gunned down by the Gujarat crime branch police near Kotarpur on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on June 15, 2004.
The CBI, which recently registered a case against 20 policemen of Gujarat in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case, is scrutinising the forensic reports related to the incident.
“Initial probe and scrutiny of the forensic reports indicate that Ishrat Jahan and her three friends did not fire a single bullet on the Gujarat police cops. The CBI officials recently recorded the statements of some Gujarat police officials in this connection, which are being further verified”, sources said.
“The special investigation team, constituted by the Gujarat high court in 2010 to probe the allegations of fake encounter, in its report, had also maintained that the encounter was staged by the Gujarat police.
The agency officials are also scrutinising the forensic reports of weapon used by the cops in the alleged killing of Ishrat and three others,” sources said.
The CBI officials are also scrutinising the post-mortem report of the people killed in the alleged encounter.