The Central Bureau of Investigation (The team investigating the Ishrat Jahan encounter case), issued summons to senior Rajendra Kumar (IPS official from the Intelligence Bureau) for generating fake IB alerts that the Mumbai girl and four others were on a mission to assassinate Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
On Wednesday, a petition was filed by Shabir Jamal, the brother of Sadiq Jamal, another alleged fake encounter victim in Gujarat, alleging a role by the same IB official in fabricating inputs that Sadiq was out to kill Mr Modi and senior BJP leaders. Sadiq was a scooter mechanic in Saurashtra’s Bhavnagar city. The CBI is probing this encounter as well.
At the time of the encounter, Rajendra Kumar is said to have gathered specific intelligence that Ishrat Jahan, a young college girl from a Mumbai suburb, Javed Ghulam Mohammed Shaikh and two others had links with the Lashkar-e-Toiba and were on a mission to assassinate the Gujarat Chief Minister.
There is a common thread between these two police encounters as well as with the other two alleged gun battles after the 2002 Gujarat riots up to 2004 – all of them have been declared or alleged as fake encounters. Eight people were killed in four encounters in the State during this time.
All those shot dead were allegedly planning to kill Mr Modi, all were killed in the early hours of the day, all near Ahmedabad and all died at the hands of the Ahmedabad Crime Branch police, whose then head DG Vanzara is behind bars in for Sohrabuddin Shaikh fake encounter case.
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