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This is an archive article published on July 30, 2023
IPS officer questioned in Ishrat case announces retirement
In April 2021, PS officer Girish Laxman Singhal was discharged by a special CBI court along with two other policemen on the grounds that the police action was carried out in the line of duty.
Ishrat Jahan and three others —Javed Sheikh alias Pranesh, Amzad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar— were killed in an alleged fake encounter by the Ahmedabad police on the outskirts of the city in June 2004. (Express File Photo)
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IPS officer Girish Laxman Singhal, who was investigated in the 2004 Ishrat Jahan case, has announced voluntary retirement. He cited “personal and social reasons”. The 58-year-old IPS officer of the 2001 batch announced the decision two years before the superannuation (that offers retirement benefit). August 4 will be his last day.
Posted as IGP at the Commando Training Centre in Karai, Gandhinagar, since 2016, the Gujarat cadre officer, who was promoted to the IPS in 2006, was among the police officers investigated by the CBI in the 2004 Ishrat Jahan encounter case.
In April 2021, he was discharged by a special CBI court along with two other policemen on the grounds that the police action was carried out in the line of duty.
Singhal told The Indian Express Saturday, “I have some personal and social issues, especially after the passing of my father-in-law three months back.”
© The Indian Express Pvt Ltd
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