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| Ishrat Jahan case: |
| Ishrat Jahan case: Narendra Modi named in Gujarat cop's testimony
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| INDIA
, 5-July-2013
4:59:43 AM |
| In the CBI's chargesheet on the killing of college student Ishrat Jahan is a startling claim by a Gujarat police officer. He says he was privy to the conspiracy that led to the deaths of the 19-year-old and three others, and that DG Vanzara, one of the main accused in the case, claimed that Chief Minister Narendra Modi had sanctioned the encounter.
The statement by DH Goswami, who was a Deputy Superintendent of Police in 2004 when Ishrat was killed, was made in a Mumbai court, but offers no direct evidence of his allegations. CBI sources say they are investigating the possibility of a larger conspiracy in an encounter that they have officially declared staged, but also point out that Mr Goswami's statement is based on hearsay.
In 2004, DG Vanzara was one of the top bosses at the Crime Branch in Ahmedabad
Mr Goswami claims that two days before the encounter in which Ishrat was killed, he was present at the Crime Branch office in Ahmedabad. Mr Vanzara, he says, was discussing the plans to kill Ishrat with Rajendra Kumar, the Gujarat station chief of the Intelligence Bureau, and PP Pande, the head of the Crime Branch.
Mr Goswami says he heard Mr Kumar asking Mr Vanzara to "talk to the Chief Minister."
The next day, Mr Goswami says he visited the Crime Branch again with GL Singhal, a Crime Branch officer who reported to Mr Vanzara. Mr Goswami alleges that Mr Singhal objected to the plans for the encounter but that an adamant Mr Vanzara said he had "got approval from the Chief Minister and Minister of Home
Mr Vanzara, who is in jail, and Mr Pande, who is absconding, are among the seven policemen accused of murder and destruction of evidence by the CBI. The agency has said that it is investigating the role of Mr Kumar and three other Intelligence Bureau officers in the encounter.
In its chargesheet, the CBI did not comment on whether Ishrat and her associates were terrorists planning to assassinate the chief minister,
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