MHA to examine files related to Ishrat Jahan case

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The official said re-look of the Ishrat Jahan files was necessitated following the statement of the former Home Secretary.

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“We are looking at the files keeping in view that new facts have come to light,” he said. Pillai on Sunday claimed that as Home Minister during UPA government, Congress leader Chidambaram had recalled the file a month after the original affidavit, which described Ishrat and her slain aides as LeT operatives, was filed in Supreme Court.

“Only after the affidavit was revised, as directed by the minister, did the file come to me,” Pillai is quoted as saying by a media report.

The then UPA government had submitted two affidavits – one that the four, who were killed in an alleged fake encounter, were terrorists and the second saying there was no conclusive evidence – within two months in 2009.