Nine years after Ishrat Jahan was gunned down in an alleged shootout by\u00a0Gujarat\u00a0Police, the\u00a0CBI\u00a0Wednesday filed a charge sheet in a\u00a0court\u00a0here naming at least six policemen as accused.<\/p>\n
While stating that Ishrat, who lived in Thane, was not a terrorist as alleged by Gujarat Police, the CBI charge sheet named policemen P.P. Pande, A. Choudhary, D.G. Vanzare, Tarun Barot, J.R. Parmar and N.K. Amin among the accused.<\/p>\n
The probe agency accused the policemen, including Indian Police Service officers, of murder, abduction, conspiracy and destruction of evidence, among other offences.<\/p>\n
The formal set of charges were filed by Assistant Commissioner of Police P. Rathod in a Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) special court.<\/p>\n
Declaring that Ishrat was not a terrorist, the CBI said that three others killed in the same alleged shootout June 15, 2004 were suspected of terror links.<\/p>\n
Pranesh Pillai alias Javed Shaikh, Amjad ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar, who were killed in the incident in addition to Ishrat, were allegedly planning terror attacks in Ahmedabad.<\/p>\n
The CBI said Pillai was allegedly using Ishrat, a collegian in Mumbai, hailing from Mumbra town of Thane, as a shield to cover his activities.<\/p>\n
Contrary to expectations, no politicians have been named in the charge sheet and the CBI plans to file a supplementary document (charge-sheet) within a month in the case.<\/p>\n
(Source: IANS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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