Ahmedabad: The special CBI court here on Friday reserved its order on the bail applications of former IPS officers P P Pandey and D G Vanzara who are accused in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter killing case.
Judge K R Upadhyaya is likely to pass the order on January 28.
During the hearing today, Pandey’s lawyer N D Nanawati said CBI did not arrest the former chief of Intelligence Bureau Rajinder Kumar (who is also named as an accused in the charge sheet) because of his political bosses in the previous government at the Centre.
“Who prevented you from arresting him…only because Rajinder Kumar was backed by the political bosses of the central government of the relevant time,” Nanawati claimed.
Pandey was the Joint Commissioner of police when Mumbra-based 19-year-old college girl Ishrat Jahan, Pranesh Pillai alias Javed Sheikh, Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar were killed by Ahmedabad crime branch sleuths in an encounter on the outskirts of the city on June 15, 2004.
According to CBI, it was a fake encounter orchestrated jointly by Gujarat police and IB. (PTI)
