Ishrat Jahan fake encounter: HC hits out at CBI, Narendra Modi govt over delay - Indian Express

PTI : New Delhi, Fri Jun 14 2013, 20:14 hrs The Gujarat High Court today rapped the CBI for delay in filing its chargesheet in the Ishrat Jahan alleged fake encounter case, asking it to ascertain the genuineness of the encounter instead of focusing on IB inputs and trying to figure out whether those killed were terrorists or not. "Prime facie, we find that instead of investigating the genuineness of the encounter, the CBI has focused more on the genuineness of the inputs provided by the IB," a division bench of Justices Jayant Patel and Abhilasha Kumari observed. "It seems that in past one month you were more interested in figuring out whether the killed persons were terrorists or not but the court is not concerned whether they were terrorists or normal human beings. In any case they should not have been liquidated," the court observed. "You have been assigned responsibility to ascertain whether they were killed in a genuine encounter or a fake one and whether they were in prior custody of Gujarat police or not," the court said. Court asked CBI to explain why it failed to file the chargesheet within 90 days of the arrest of accused, to which CBI responded that it is very large case of conspiracy and investigation has led us from one point to another which has caused the delay. The delay in filing the chargesheet has resulted in five accused police officers including IPS G L Singhal securing bail. The CBI told the court that it will file the chargesheet in the case by first week of July. But that could not satisfy the court which said that they have doubts that the probe agency would file the chargesheet even by second week of July. The CBI, on the instruction of the High Court, had taken over the probe of the alleged fake encounter in which 19-year-old Ishrat, Javed Sheikh alias Pranesh Pillai, ... contd. ALSO READ Day after his Narendra Modi 'challenge' remark, Congress ticks off Jairam Ramesh Chalo Assembly stir: Scores of Telangana activists rounded up Nitish Kumar gives clear sign of split with BJP, says situation 'difficult' Ishrat Jahan case: Contempt petition against Arun Jaitley withdrawn today Please read our terms of use before posting comments TERMS OF USE: The views, opinions and comments posted are your, and are not endorsed by this website. You shall be solely responsible for the comment posted here. The website reserves the right to delete, reject, or otherwise remove any views, opinions and comments posted or part thereof. You shall ensure that the comment is not inflammatory, abusive, derogatory, defamatory &/or obscene, or contain pornographic matter and/or does not constitute hate mail, or violate privacy of any person (s) or breach confidentiality or otherwise is illegal, immoral or contrary to public policy. Nor should it contain anything infringing copyright &/or intellectual property rights of any person(s). via Top Stories - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNEh3sWH4xdZSU3gALGFo1Y-OYf15A&url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/ishrat-jahan-fake-encounter-gujarat-high-court-raps-cbi-over-delay/1129092/

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