Supreme Court restrains SIT in Ishrat Jahan case (Lead)
May 3rd, 2011 - 11:24 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) The Supreme Court Tuesday restrained the Special Investigation Team (SIT) from continuing its probe into the 2004 Ishrat Jahan alleged staged shooting case.
The apex court bench of Justice B. Sudarshan Reddy and Justice S.S. Nijjar issued the restraining order after senior counsel Ranjit Kumar told the court that the three-member SIT has been reduced to just one officer.
The SIT was appointed by the Gujarat High Court earlier this year on the plea by Ishrat Jahan’s mother seeking an independent probe into her daughter’s killing. It included Gujarat Police officers Karnail Singh, Mohan Jha and Satish Verma.
The high court, by its order of April 22, 2011, relieved Karnail Singh from the SIT, while Jha was recalled by the state police.
The apex court direction restraining the SIT from carrying out further probe was on a petition by one of the officers under investigation, Girish Laxman Singhal, who is Vadodara’s Deputy Commissioner of Police.
The restrain order will remain in force till May 11, when the matter will come up for hearing.
Mumbai college student Ishrat Jahan, Pranesh Pillai, Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar were killed by the city crime branch officials in an alleged staged shootout on the outskirts of Ahmedabad in June 2004. The police had termed them as Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operatives on a mission to kill Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
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