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The mother of Ishrat Jahan, who was killed in an alleged fake encounter in a joint operation by Gujarat Police and Intelligence Bureau (IB) officers, on Tuesday filed an objection to the discharge applications moved by two key accused — retired police officers D G Vanzara and N K Amin.
Opposing the discharge pleas, Shamima Kauser filed her response through lawyer Parvezbhai Pathan in a special CBI court here, stating that her daughter was abducted, kept in illegal confinement and murdered by the Gujarat Police officers and this was “falsely projected as an encounter killing”.
She also opposed the pleas on the ground that “accused cannot be discharged even before the supplementary chargesheet is placed before this Court”.
The supplementary chargesheet is pending with the special CBI court (magisterial) that names IB officials, including former Special Director Rajinder Kumar.
The court of special CBI judge J K Pandya, who reserved the order for pronouncement Tuesday, will hear counter-arguments of the two accused on Wednesday.
Kauser has said there are eye-witnesses whose statements have been recorded under Section 164 of CrPC that establish their roles in the matter. She has also objected to submissions of the accused applicants for “making baseless, defamatory, malicious and motivated aspersions against Ishrat Jahan in a desperate bid to cover up his crime”. She said in the written submission that she would challenge the discharge order of another key accused — former DGP PP Pandey — in high court.
Ishrat Jahan, a 19-year-old Mumbai college girl, was killed along with her friend Javed Shaikh and two alleged Pakistani nationals, Amjadali Akbarali Rana and Zeeshan Johar, on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on June 15, 2004.
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