Ahmedabad: A special CBI court today dropped the proceedings against former IPS D G Vanzara and police officer N K Amin in Ishrat Jahan case citing refusal of permission by the Gujarat government to prosecute them. The court of designated CBI Judge J K Pandya who had earlier in August last year rejected the discharge pleas of both the accused officials in the case, today dropped the proceedings as the state government has not granted sanction to the CBI to prosecute them as required...Read More

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 th...Read More

Ahmedabad, 11 February 2014 Former Intelligence Bureau officer Rajinder Kumar has reacted to CBI charge-sheet against him in Ishrat Jahan encounter case. Rajinder Kumar said: I don't see any blot on my career, I don't see anything wrong in what I did. "I have sufficient evidence to prove that the CBI is false. All four of them were part of a terror plot," Mr Kumar said, speaking to a TV channel. "I have done single-handedly for the protection of national securi...Read More

New Delhi, 6 February 2014 BJP on Thursday claimed that with CBI not naming Amit Shah in its charge sheet in the Ishrat Jehan encounter case, Congress' "malicious" campaign against the former Gujarat minister of complicity in the case "stands demolished". The Opposition party, however, raised the sensitive issue of senior intelligence officials involved in covert operations against terror being subjected to criminal prosecution and sought a debate on it as this will...Read More

Ahmedabad, 6 February 2014 Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI) today filed supplementary charge-sheet in court in Ahmedabad in Ishrat Jahan encounter case. The 200-page 2nd charge-sheet names former Intelligence Bureau(IB) officer Rajendra Kumar as main accused who according to CBI conspired the encounter and also supplied arms to then Gujarat Police officer GL Singhal. IB cops Sinha, Vankhede and Mittal are also named in charge sheet as accused under sections 102,...Read More

New Delhi, 15 November 2013 CBI has sent a judicial request to Pakistan seeking to establish the identity of Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar who were killed in the Ahmedabad encounter along with 19-year-old Ishrat Jahan nearly nine years ago. The agency had carried out detailed search in Kashmir even though it was alleged that Rana and Johar were Pakistani terrorists who had infiltrated in India. The search met a dead end in the state as the agency could not gather ...Read More

New Delhi, 24 September 2013 Leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha and Gujarat MP Shri Arun Jaitley has posted a new article on his website http://www.arunjaitley.com/ Presented here is the same article in full text: Uncovering Covert operation I had on 4th June 2013 written an article “Should CBI uncover the Intelligence Bureau”. A lot more has happened since then. Disclosures in relation to certain activities of the Indian army now raise a larger question –...Read More

Ahmedabad, 29 July 2013 IPS officer, PP Pandey has been admitted to Ahmedabad's Shahibag based private hospital. He is reportedly suffering from high diabetes, chest pain, kidney and urine problem and fever. Pandey has to appear before the CBI court in Ahmedabad today as per the Supreme Court order in which he has been asked to appear before the court today. The court functions till 5.00 pm. Pandey According to Dr. Roopkumar Agrawal of Chandramani hospital where Sh...Read More

New Delhi, 26 July 2013 The Supreme Court today directed senior Gujarat IPS officer PP Pandey, an absconder in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case, to appear before a trial court in Ahmedabad on July 29 and restrained the CBI from arresting him till then. In another development the Gujarat High Court today ended its monitoring of probe in the Ishrat Jahan alleged fake encounter case. The division bench of Justices Jayant Patel and Abhilasha Kumari observed that as t...Read More