Ishrat encounter fake, says rebel SIT cop

The probe into the 2004 killing of alleged Lashkar-e-Toiba operative Ishrat Jahan and three others courted controversy on Friday when one of the three members of the Special Investigation Team (SIT), appointed by the Gujarat High Court, filed an affidavit alleging that the encounter may have been faked by Gujarat policemen.

Joint Commissioner of Police Satish Verma, in his 80-page affidavit in the High Court, also alleged that his other two colleagues in the SIT, Karnail Singh and Mohan Jha, were trying to derail the probe. Singh and Jha are also Jt CPs. While Singh is from Delhi, Jha belongs to the Gujarat cadre.

Verma claimed there was enough material available to suggest that the encounter may have been "staged" by police. He has asked for registration of an FIR against the officers involved.

According to Verma, he came to this inference after recording the statement of Head Constable Moti Talja Desai who was posted with the Ahmedabad City Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) when the "encounter" took place. He said he also turned to forensic evidence to back his claim


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