New Delhi: The is more trouble in store for Gujarat police as a woman in Mumbai has declared her plans to move the Bombay High Court for reopening a probe into the killing of her 19-year-old daughter, Ishrat Jahan Raza, in an ‘encounter’ by the state police for her alleged terrorist activities.
The Gujarat police has been in the docks over the fake encounter killing of Sohrabuddin and the subsequent elimination of his wife. The Gujarat police officers — DG Vanzara (DIG, border range), Rajkumar Pandiyan (SP intelligence bureau) and Dinesh M N (SP Alwar, Rajasthan) — have been arrested in the fake encounter case. They have also been linked to the unnatural death of Kauser Bi.
"No one listened to us when we had said it in 2004. But now that the truth has been exposed with the fake encounter case (of Sohrabuddin and his wife Kauser Bi), we hope that proper investigations will be conducted in the matter and justice will be delivered," Shamima Raza, Ishrat's mother, said.
The family is seeking a CBI investigation into the case in the light of the arrest of former Gujarat police DIG DG Vanzara in the Soharabuddin Sheikh case.
Vanzara was a senior officer in the Crime Branch of Gujarat police when Ishrat, an undergraduate science student in a Mumbai college, was killed along with three others in an encounter in Gujarat on June 15, 2004.
Shamima said she would be filing a petition before the Bombay High Court soon, seeking a CBI investigations in the case.
The Gujarat police had alleged at the time that Ishrat and her companions were members of the Lashkar-e-Toiba militant outfit and they were planning to assassinate Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, an allegation refuted by her family members.
"We had said that there was some foul play involved, but the matter was not taken up properly by our state government which should have done more," Shamima said.
(With agency inputs)
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