Ahmedabad: Central Bureau of Investigation has filed its first chargesheet in the Ishrat Jahan case in an Ahmedabad court.
Ishrat was a 19-year-old Mumbai college student who was shot dead along with three others by the Gujarat Police on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on 15 June, 2004.
Here are 10 developments in the case:
The CBI will reportedly allege in today's chargesheet that Ishrat and the three others, all men, were abducted and killed by the Ahmedabad crime branch in a fake or staged encounter.
The chargesheet is expected to focus on the encounter. The CBI will recount how Ishrat and the others were killed and will list the police officers involved in the shooting as the accused - most of them are in jail.
Among the policemen likely to be named today as accused is senior cop DG Vanzara, who is in jail. He has also been charged with conspiracy and murder in the Ishrat encounter case.
Sources say that the chargesheet will refer to senior intelligence officer Rajendra Kumar, but will not list him as an accused.
Mr Kumar was the Gujarat station chief of the Intelligence Bureau or IB when Ishrat and the others were killed; the policemen involved said they had received alerts from the IB that the group planned to assassinate Chief Minister Narendra Modi on behalf of terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Mr Kumar's interrogation by the CBI has created a sharp divide between his agency and the CBI, which plans to name him as an accused in its next chargesheet, to be filed most likely after he retires at the end of July.
The IB official has said that though he shared information with the police about the possibility of Ishrat and the others being terrorists, he did not sanction he encounter.
The CBI, however, says it has testimony from eyewitnesses and other evidence that will later show how Mr Kumar played a key role in the killings and in what it calls a larger conspiracy.
The CBI is expected to tell the court today that will file a supplementary chargesheet later on the "larger conspiracy".
Today's chargesheet will also exclude senior police officers PP Pandey and KR Kaushik.
Source:NDTV
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