Ahmedabad: Almost nine years after Ishrat Jahan and three others were killed in Ahmedabad on suspicion of being a part of a Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) module out to kill Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday filed its first chargesheet in the case in an Ahmedabad court to explain what really transpired on June 15, 2004.
Neither Modi nor his trusted aide Amit Shah have been named in the chargesheet and the CBI has told the court that Ishrat and three others were killed by the Gujarat Police in a fake encounter.
A day before the CBI filed its chargesheet, a twist in the case had surfaced. An affidavit accessed by CNN-IBN and Cobra post revealed that Jammu and Kashmir Police had informed the Gujarat Police that they had arrested three terrorists who allegedly had teamed up with Amjad Ali, who was killed in an encounter along with Ishrat, to assassinate Modi in 2004.
The affidavit was filed by ACP Parixita Rathod, investigating officer in the Ishrat jahan encounter case, before the POTA court in Gujarat. Rathod had stated that Jammu and Kashmir Police had informed the Gujarat Police of arresting three terrorists in 2004 in Srinagar, allegedly involved in a plot to kill Modi.
The affidavit further said that Gujarat police officer ACP Dr NK Amin, already under arrest in the Ishrat case, even interrogated the terrorists in Srinagar jail.
According to the affidavit, the terrorists admitted that they had teamed up with Amjad Ali, who was killed by the Gujarat Police along with Ishrat Jahan in an encounter on June 15, 2004. The Jammu and Kashmir Police refused to hand over the terrorists to the Gujarat Police despite the state getting transfer orders from the POTA court in Gujarat, the affidavit added.
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