Ishrat Jahan case: SC to hear plea to quash criminal case against Gujarat police
During his deposition through video conference in February, Headley had claimed that Ishrat Jahan was a suicide bomber for Pakistan-based terror outfit LeT and was involved in an operation ‘about shooting the police at some naka [checkpoint]’.
According to media reports, the Union Home ministry is planning to examine files relating to the controversial case after former Home Secretary GK Pillai said former Home Minister P Chidambaram had changed an affidavit, which originally described Ishrat and her slain aides as LeT operatives.
On Friday, at the Lok Sabha, a BJP member had claimed that the erstwhile UPA government had tried to blame its political rival Narendra Modi, then chief minister of Gujarat, alleging that the encounter was a fake one.
In June 2004, the Gujarat police had shot dead Ishrat Jahan, Javed Sheikh, Zeeshan Johar and Amjad Ali Rana on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, and had later claimed that they were involved in a plot to assassinate Modi.
In 2009, an Ahmedabad Metropolitan court had ruled that the encounter was staged.
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