On 15 June 2004, Gujarat Police killed Ishrat Jahan and three men near Ahmedabad, calling them Lashkar terrorists. A magistrate, an SIT and the Gujarat High Co…
Ahmedabad Crime Branch police shot dead Ishrat Jahan, 19, Javed Sheikh, Zeeshan Johar and Amjad Ali Rana near Kotarpur. Police said they were Lashkar-e-Taiba militants p…
Shamima Kauser, Ishrat's mother, asked the Gujarat High Court for a CBI probe, saying her daughter was killed in a fake encounter. The court admitted her petition in Dec…
Magistrate S. P. Tamang's report said the encounter was staged. Gujarat called it overreach, and the High Court stayed it on 9 September.
A 6 August affidavit cited intelligence inputs on Lashkar links. On 29 September the Centre said such inputs are not conclusive proof and it did not endorse unjustified…
After a court-appointed SIT said the encounter was fake, the Gujarat High Court held on 1 December 2011 that it was not shown to be genuine and ordered a CBI investigati…
The CBI charge sheet named seven Gujarat Police officers and alleged a staged encounter planned by senior officers. A charge sheet is an allegation, not a finding.
A supplementary charge sheet named four Intelligence Bureau officials. The Union Home Ministry refused sanction to prosecute them in 2015.
P. P. Pandey was discharged in February 2018, and D. G. Vanzara and N. K. Amin in May 2019, after the Gujarat government refused sanction to prosecute.
A Special CBI court discharged G. L. Singhal, Tarun Barot and Anaju Chaudhary on a sanction ground, without a trial. No police accused remained.
All seven police accused left the case without a trial. The IB officials' case is not verified beyond 2018, and the CBI's allegations were never tested in court.
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