The SIT probing the case is likely to rely on scientific evidence than on witness statements in its investigation.
Despite its plan to subject suspects and witnesses of the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case to psychoanalytical tests, the SIT probing the case is likely to rely on scientific evidence than on witness statements in its investigation.
The main reason for this, of course, is its failure to prevent witnesses from retracting their statements. Sources said that there is every chance of more witnesses going back on their statements.
The SIT has already been given more time for gathering further details from the reconstruction of the crime scene done by experts earlier. Investigation of the case is believed to have gathered pace after additional director general, Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), RR Verma, took over as chairman of the probe team.
"I will not be able to say anything more than that we are proceeding with the investigation," Verma told DNA. He, however, refused to give any details of the probe.
Sources said the Ishrat SIT has sought clarification regarding from the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) regarding some conclusions drawn from the reconstruction of the crime scene.
Two teams - one each from AIIMS and the CFSL, New Delhi - had done a reconstruction of the crime scene and collected data some months back. The teams are yet to send their answers to the queries raised by the Ishrat SIT.
Mumbai-girl Ishrat Jahan, Javed Sheikh alias Pranesh Pillai, Jissan Johar and Amjad Ali Rana were gunned down by personnel of the Detection of Crime Branch near Kotarpur Waterworks in Ahmedabad in an encounter on June 15, 2004.
The Detection of Crime Branch had claimed at the time that the deceased were members of Lashkar-e-Toiba and had come to kill Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi.
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