The post-mortem report of people killed in the encounter, reconstruction of the encounter and report by Central Forensic Science Laboratory guided the SIT.
Scientific evidence helped nail the cops in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case, literally. Scientific evidence and medical reports of the victims exposed the claims of the cops in the fake encounter, so says the Gujarat high court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT).
The post-mortem report of the four persons who were killed in the encounter, reconstruction of the encounter and the report by the Central Forensic Science Laboratory guided the SIT while it probed into the nature of the case.
According to sources, the claim of officials of the Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) contradicted the scientific and medical evidence available with the SIT, including the report of the metropolitan magistrate SP Tamang.
Sources said, the DCB had claimed that the four were killed around 4 am on June 15, 2004. However, the post-mortem report speaks a different tale.
As per the report, semi-digested food was found in the victims’ stomachs. This indicated that the four had been killed seven or eight hours earlier than what DCB claimed.
The pattern of firing of bullets was studied during the reconstruction of the encountered by the SIT, said the sources.
According to FSL and ballistic reports, some of the wounds that were seen on the bodies could not have been possible in exchange of gun firing. The SIT had collected many vital evidences from the office of the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL).
Sources claimed SIT had interrogated many people who were aware of the encounter. Three of these witnesses reportedly told the cops that the four were not killed at the spot of encounter as claimed by DCB.
The SIT had reconstructed the encounter scene at Kotarpur thrice in presence of scientific and medical experts from Delhi. They waited for their report for a few months and the case is mainly based upon the scientific and medical evidences. Sources claimed that, though initially a couple of witnesses changed their statements before the SIT, many came out with the true story behind the encounter.
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