By IANS,
New Delhi : The killing of Mumbai student Ishrat Jahan by Gujarat Police four years ago was “inhuman” and all those responsible for her death should be punished, Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily said here Tuesday, a day after a metropolitan magistrate’s report proved that it was a “fake encounter”.
“This is inhuman, if a proper investigation is done then many more skeletons will come out,” Moily told IANS.
He said it was surprising that such things were happening in India and demanded that all the officers responsible should be punished.
“All those who are responsible for such inhuman killings should be hauled (up),” he said.
The Gujarat police had claimed that Ishrat Jahan was a member of the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba and that she and her three friends were on a mission to kill Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi when they were gunned down on the outskirts of Ahmedabad in June 2004.
However, according to the 240 page report by metropolitan magistrate S.P. Tamang, the four — Ishrat Jahan, Javed Ghulam Sheikh alias Pranesh Kumar Pillai, Amjad Ali alias Rajkumar Akbar Ali Rana and Jisan Johar Abdul Gani — were not linked with any terror group and were killed in a “fake encounter”.