Even before the dust could settle over the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case probe, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has already embarked on its investigations into the Sadik Jamal Mehtar fake encounter case.
In his affidavit to the special CBI court on Thursday, the investigating officer of the case submitted that the probe agency is trying to dig out the role played by chief minister Narendra Modi, BJP leader Amit Shah and special director, IB, Rajendra Kumar in the case.
Brother of Sadik Jamal, Shabbir Jamal Mehtar, had filed an application before special CBI court judge VK Vyas requesting the court to further investigate the role played by the then home minister (Amit Shah) and the chief minister (Narendra Modi) in the entire conspiracy and also to direct the CBI to file a supplementary charge sheet. Replying to an application submitted by Sadik’s brother, the investigating officer and DySP, CBI, SK Rathi, had submitted in his affidavit that ‘the relevant points are already being looked into during further investigation’.
In his application filed on May 29 2013, Shabbir had also mentioned that the role and conduct of IB officer Rajendra Kumar (then joint director IB), should be probed as the one who had hatched the conspiracy. The Gujarat High Court had in 2011, directed CBI to take over the probe after filing a new FIR in the case following Shabir’s plea.
Reacting to the reply filed by CBI, advocate Shamshad Pathan, who is representing Shabir in this case, claimed: “This clearly means that CBI is investigating the Shah and Modi’s role as we have demanded in our application.”
He further said that ‘CBI should file a supplementary charge sheet soon’.
Sadik, a resident of Bhavnagar city, was killed by a team of crime branch in an encounter near Galaxy Cinema in Naroda on the outskirts of the city on January 13, 2003. At that time, Gujarat police had claimed that he was a terrorist who entered the city to kill Modi and VHP leader Dr Pravin Togadia.
In a related matter, CBI today sought exemption for producing the intelligence report, dated January 6, 2003, of Subsidiary Intelligence Bureau (SIB), Mumbai, in which it was claimed allegedly that Sadik Jamal was a member of Dawood Ibrahim gang and had arrived to kill saffron party leaders to avenge 2002 post-Godhra riots in Gujarat.
An application was moved before the court by advocate Rohit Verma on behalf of the accused policemen seeking a copy of the SIB report which was submitted by CBI along with the charge sheet in a sealed cover.
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