Gandhinagar:Gujarat Government has given retrospective promotion to the retired IPS D G Vanzara, who had been acquitted in two of the alleged fake encounter cases including the Ishrat Jahan encounter case. Notably, Vanzara had retired as Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIGP) in May 2014 while in jail in connection with three encounter cases. Now through an order issued by the ACS (Home) Sangeeta Singh he has been given a retrospective post retirement promotion as Inspe...Read More

Gandhinagar: Former Gujarat DIG D G Vanzara who had shown keenness to join active politics, before the assembly election last year, has now said that this has now taken a back seat in his agenda and he would plunge in to political arena only after getting clean-chit in other cases against him. Even as the Lok-sabha election is inching closer, Vanzara said that now his first priority to get discharged in the remaining cases against him. He said that he was already in public...Read More

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court today upheld the discharge granted by a trial court to ex-Gujarat ATS chief DG Vanzara and four others, all of them police officers from Gujarat and Rajasthan, in the case of encounter of suspected gangster Sohrabuddin Shaikh, his wife and aide. The court held that the applications challenging their discharge were devoid of merit. Justice AM Badar also granted discharge to Gujarat police officer Vipul Aggarwal, a co-accused in the case related to the 2005-06 e...Read More

Ahmedabad: A special CBI court today rejected the discharge pleas of former IPS D G Vanzara and police officer N K Amin in Ishrat Jahan encounter case. The court of designated judge J K Pandya had completed the hearing on the pleas last month had deferred its verdict on August 4. CBI and Ishrat's mother Shamina Kaushar had opposed the discharge pleas. The court rejected the pleas concluding that Amin and Vanzara were directly involved in the encounter....Read More

Ahmedabad: The CBI has opposed the discharge petitions of former DIG D G Vanzara and former SP Narendra K Amin in Ishrat Jahan Encounter case. Earlier despite the opposition from the CBI, the special court here hearing the case had accepted similar petition of former in-charge DGP P P Pandey on February 21 this year. The court of special CBI Judge J K Pandya has fixed the next date of hearing on the discharge petitions of Vanzara and Amin on May 5. ...Read More

Ahmedabad: Close on heels of the acceptance of the discharge petition of former in-charge DGP of Gujarat P P Pandey in the Ishrat Jahan Encounter Case, another accused in the case and former IPS officer D G Vanzara has also filed such petition in the special CBI court here. He has termed the CBI charge-sheet in the case as 'politically motivated' during the regime of the then UPA government. The court of designated CBI judge J K Pandya, which accepted the discharge peti...Read More

Mumbai: Special CBI Court here has discharged retired retired cop DG Vanzara ad IG in Rajasthan Police Dinesh MN from year 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsi Prajapati encounter case. Both have spent seven years in jail in this case. After getting discharged from Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsi Prajapati encounter cases, DG Vanzara said justice has been done by judiciary. Earlier the court had discharged BJP president Amit Shah, Rajasthan minister Gulabchand Kataria and others in this case. The ...Read More

Vadodara: Retired IPS officer D G Vanzara's son Arjun Vanzara, who is a government officer, was caught red-handed by the Gujarat anti-corruption bureau while accepting bribe from a farmer, police said. "We have arrested Arjun Vanzara, who is a mamlatdar (revenue officer), and his deputy Jaswant Hujra when they were accepting bribe of Rs 75,000," Deputy SP of ACB P R Gehlot said. D G Vanzara is an accused in Soharabuddin Sheikh, Tulsi Prajapati and Ishrat Jahan encounter cases. According...Read More