Ishrat Jahan fake encounter: Home Ministry denies prosecution of former IB officers
The Home Ministry said there is no evidence against the former officers to prosecute them.
The Central Bureau of Investigation, probing the case, had sought the Centre's approval to prosecute former Intelligence Bureau Special Director Rajinder Kumar and other IB officers in the case.
According to Central bureau of Investigation (CBI), the killing of Jahan and three others in a fake encounter in 2004 was result of joint conspiracy of Gujarat police and the IB.
The CBI had alleged that Kumar provided the weapons for the encounter.
It was alleged that at the scene of the killing the officers had planted an AK-56 to make it appear as though the encounter was genuine.
The investigating agency had said that without sanctions from the Home Ministry, the court will not take cognizance of their chargesheet.
Ishrat Jahan was a 19-year-old student when she was killed along with three other men in Gujarat in the year 2004.
The police had claimed that there was intelligence reports suggesting that all four of them were part of a terrorism plot aimed at assassinating Narendra Modi.
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