Ahmedabad:The CBI today informed a special court here that it has sought permission from the state government under section of 197 of the CRPC for prosecution of former IPS D G Vanzara and another ex-senior cop N K Amin in Ishrat Jahan encounter case.

The special CBI court of designated judge J K Pandya had earlier on August 7 rejected the discharge pleas of Vanzara and Amin, both of whom were present in the court during hearing today.

CBI sought one month time from the court which was granted and it fixed November 22 as the next date of hearing.

Notably CBI and Ishrat’s mother Shamina Kaushar had opposed the discharge pleas.

The court had rejected the pleas concluding that Amin and Vanzara were directly involved in the encounter. Their role was different from that of former top cop P P Pandey who was earlier discharged in the case in February this year by the same court and with whom the duo had compared them during course of argument.

The two had claimed that the encounter was a genuine one and the case lodged by CBI against them was politically motivated to frame them. Vanzara’s counsel had argued that the encounter was genuine and on June15, 2004, based on IB inputs borders of Ahmedabad city were sealed by police. Even the police officials on leave on that day were re-called to join the duty. The then ACP had also visited the spot. Videography was also done and the FSL team was also involved. In an Indigo car four terrorists (Ishrat Jahan, the 19 year old Mumbai girl, her boy-friend Pranyesh Pillai alias Javed Shaikh and two Pakistani nationals), who were later gunned down, were present. It was chased by police from Narol circle to Naroda.Vanzara and other accused police officers in the case had maintained that the four were LeT operatives who had arrived Ahmedabad with an intention to assassinate the then CM Narendra Modi.