By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
New Delhi: Embarrassed with the revelation that its own affidavit had endorsed the Narendra Modi government’s position in the June 2004 Ishrat Jahan encounter – which has now been proved fake by a magisterial probe – the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre yesterday sacked its Ahmedabad-based law officer who was responsible for the affidavit.
The Union Law Ministry has removed the law officer, whose name the ministry has not disclosed, from the panel of law officers appointed to represent the Centre in the Gujarat High Court. Media reports say some more heads could roll since the Centre was not kept informed with the developments related to the encounter case.
Mumbai college girl Ishrat Jahan and three others were killed in an encounter in Ahmedabad on June 15, 2004. After killing the four the Gujarat police had claimed that they were Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives on a mission to kill Chief Minister Narendra Modi. When the parent of Ishrat approached the Gujarat High Court for a CBI probe the Centre had opposed it in an affidavit and said that the four the suspected terrorists.
Now that the Ahmedabad Metropolitan Magistrate SP Tamang has concluded in his report that the four were innocents and they were killed in cold blood by the top police officials of Gujarat just to please Modi and ensure promotions, the central government’s affidavit has come to haunt it.