On Wednesday, A special CBI court discharged police officers G L Singhal, Tarun Barot and Anaju Chowdhury in the 2004 Ishrat Jahan alleged fake encounter case.
Special CBI Judge V R Raval allowed this discharge of Singhal,Barot(now retired) and Chowdhury.
On March 20, the CBI had conveyed to the court that the state government had declined prosecution sanction against the three accused. The Court in 2020 had observed that they had "acted in their offical duties" and so the CBI had to obtain prosecution sanction.
Ishrat Jahan was a 19 year old girl from Mumbai who was killed along with Javed Shaikh alias Pranesh Pillai, Amjadali Akbarali Rana and Zeeshan Johar by Gujarat Police in an encounter near Ahmedabad on June 15,2004.
The Police had claimed that the four were terrorists who were planning to assassinate then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
However an SIT(Special Investigation Team) was appointed by the high court. The SIT in their Investigation report concluded that the encounter was fake, after which the CBI registered a case against various police officals.
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