New Delhi: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Ishrat Jahan case has told the Gujarat High Court that the encounter was not genuine. The SIT had submitted its final report on last Friday.
Ishrat, a 19-year-old college girl, along with Javed Sheikh alias Pranesh Pillai, Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar were killed in an encounter by Ahmedabad Crime Branch on June 15, 2004.
Here is the sequence of events in the Ishrat Jahan case:
June 15, 2004: Ishrat Jahan and three others were killed in a police encounter in the outskirts of Ahmedabad. The Ahmedabad police term them as members of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba on a mission to kill Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
September 2009: Ahmedabad metropolitan magistrate SP Tamang called the encounter fake.
August 2010: The Gujarat High Court asked the Supreme Court-appointed SIT headed by former CBI director RK Raghavan (investigating the Gujarat riots) to take up the case.
September 2010: The Gujarat High Court constituted a new SIT after the Raghavan-headed SIT expressed its inability to undertake the probe.
November 2010: The Supreme Court rejected the Gujarat government's plea challenging the High Court order to form the new SIT.
December 2010: The three-member SIT began investigation in the case and started recording statements of the witnesses, police officials involved.
January 28, 2011: SIT member Satish Varma filed an affidavit stating that the encounter was a fake one. He also accused other two members of not allowing the probe to be done in an unbiased manner.
April 8, 2011: The Gujarat High Court division bench warned the state authorities that the court will hand over the probe to central agencies like CBI or NIA if the state does not allow SIT to probe without hindrance.
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