IPS officer Satish Verma, who was involved in the controversial Gosabara RDX landing case, has to wait till June 24 for the next hearing as one of the lawyers did not turn up on Monday.
A petition filed by IPS officer Satish Verma, who sought the Gujarat high court's intervention over any coercive action against him in the controversial Gosabara RDX landing case, has been adjourned to June 24.
The case had come up for hearing before a bench headed by chief justice SJ Mukhopadhaya on Monday. However, it was adjourned after Rajesh Oza, one of the lawyers in the case, was absent.
Verma has expressed concerns of government counteraction as he is part of the SIT that is conducting the probe into the highly sensational Ishrat Jahan encounter case.
Verma had also doubted the genuineness of the encounter and had demanded to register a fresh FIR.
Besides Verma, IPS officer Atul Karwal and police inspector Sukhdevsinh Zala are facing allegations that they had let off Sattar Maulana, a key accused in the Gosabara arms landing case, when they were posted at Porbandar in 1993. Part of the RDX consignment that landed at the Gosabara sea shore in Porbandar was used in the Mumbai serial blasts later that year.
On April 28, a bench of the Gujarat high court consisting of chief justice SJ Mukhopadhaya and justice JB Pardiwala had ordered the state government to act upon a report prepared by Pramod Kumar, additional director general of police (administration) regarding the role of Verma, Karwal and Zala.
Verma sought to review the order of the HC bench that directed to take action according to the report filed by IPS officer Pramod Kumar in the issue.
He claimed that the HC order can be misused by the government as forces within the government already tried to frustrate the Ishrat case investigation when he doubted genuineness of the encounter.
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