New Delhi: The Gujarat High Court is expected to decide whether the encounter in the Ishrat Jahan case was staged by the police or not. The Special Investigation Team (SIT) had submitted its final report on last Friday.
The SIT is probing the encounter deaths of Mumbai teenager Ishrat Jahan and three others.
A division bench of justices Jayant Patel and Abhilasha Kumari on October 7, had directed the SIT to submit the final report that would conclude if the encounter of the four persons, claimed by Gujarat Police to be terrorists, was genuine or fake.
"We have submitted the report as directed by the high court," a SIT member said.
He declined to comment further on the report, saying the matter now rests with the court which will look into the findings and decide the next course of action.
Sources close to the SIT said the report dealt with the nature of the police encounter.
Ishrat, a 19-year-old college girl, along with Javed Sheikh alias Pranesh Pillai, Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar were killed in a shootout by Ahmedabad Crime Branch on June 15, 2004.
The Crime Branch had then claimed the four were LeT members and were on a mission to kill Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
The probe in the case was supervised directly by the high court which constituted the SIT last year to investigate the genuineness of the gunfight after petitions were filed by Ishrat's mother Shamima Kausar and Gopinath Pillai, father of Pranesh, raising questions about the police version of the incident.
(With additional information from PTI)
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