The Gujarat high court ruling about the Ishrat case investigation is likely to spell trouble for cops who are under scanner in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case.
The Gujarat high court ruling about the Ishrat case investigation is likely to spell trouble for cops who are under scanner in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case. A bench of the HC, last week, had ordered each of the three officers of the Special Investigation Team (SIT), to file a report about the investigation conducted by them in the case.
Satish Verma, a member of the SIT, which was formed by the HC, has already raised doubts over the genuineness of the encounter.
He had also demanded to file a fresh FIR against cops who were part of the team that took part in the encounter.
Mumbai girl Ishrat Jahan, Javed alias Pranesh Pillai and two others were killed in the encounter.
Due to the GHC ruling last week, Verma can now investigate according to the clues gathered by him and apprise the court about the same.
Now, all eyes are set on the report to be filed by Verma about his findings in the case. It is pertinent to note that, serious differences emerged between the three IPS officers who were part of the SIT.
Verma had earlier alleged that, Karnail Singh, chairman of the SIT, was not seeking his consensus prior to taking any decision.
Earlier the GHC bench had also expressed dissatisfaction over a progress report filed by Mohan Jha, another officer of the SIT.
"We are eagerly waiting for the report to be filed by Verma and will definitely put a demand to file an FIR against the accused cops if it emerges that they had a role to play in the controversial encounter," said Mukul Sinha, lawyer for Javed Pillai.
"Even I can demand disciplinary action against the cops who failed to investigate the case properly," Sinha further said. A bench of justices Jayant Patel and Abhilasha Kumari, last week, annoyed over the state government's approach to throttle the investigation, had threatened to hand over the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Now each three officers of the SIT will have to show the progress that they have made in the case to the HC.
Verma is already facing pressure in the case as already three applications have been filed against him for allegedly pressurising some witnesses into giving statements.
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