New Delhi: CPI (M) Politburo member and Rajya Sabha MP Brinda Karat on Saturday while expressing solidarity with Ishrat's family condemned the series of fake encounters staged in Gujarat and said the enocunters exposed the law and order situation in the state under its chief minister Narendra Modi.
"People these days talk of Modi model of governnance. Ishrat's case is an example of Modi model of governance", Karat said while addressing a public meeting held at the Constituion Club in the national capital.
The public meeting organised under the banner of 'Justice for Ishrat Jahan Now' was attended by several civil society groups and activists inclduing Isharat's family memebers and member of Planning Commission Dr Syeda Hameed.
Echoing similar feelings, Shoma Chaudhury, Managing Editor of the weekly magazine Tehelka said, "The encounters were unconstituional and were part of a larger conspiracy, where same set of police officers were involved" in all these cases."
She said that Tehelka and a section of media was being accused of 'fake' rage against a particular leader and Gujarat. "However", she said, "In Gujarat we see a pattern of fake encounters, beginning with Sadiq Jamal to Sohrabuddin and Ishrat."
She emphaised that it was only after media coverage that such incidents have stopped.
Senior lawyer Vrinda Grover, who is fighting Ishrat's case, also spoke in the meeting and condemned the 'planted stories' that were appearing in the media. "The way media persons are casting aspersions on the cahracter of a ninteen year old "innocent college going girl who was abducted, confined and murdered" in cold blood by senior police officials is painful", she noted.
Shabnam Hashmi of ANHAD, Manisha Sethi, Prsident of the Jamia Teachers' Soldiary Association, Professor Kamal Mitra Chenoy of JNU, CPI(ML) Central Committee memeber Kavita Krishnan, JNUSU president Lenin, social worker Harsh Mander, among others also addressed the meeting.
Ishrat Jahan, a college going girl from Mumbra in Mumbai suburbs was murdered with three others who are alleged to have links with terrorist on 15 June 2004 by Gujarat police on an empty road stretch between Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar.
The CBI in its chargesheet filed Wednesday (July 03) stated that Ishrat 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.
The probe agency accused the policemen, including Indian Police Service officers, of murder, abduction, conspiracy and destruction of evidence, among other offences.
The formal set of charges were filed by Assistant Commissioner of Police P. Rathod in a Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) special court.
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.
Earlier, Justice Tamang report had also held that the encounter was fake.
CBI names Gujarat cops as accused in Ishrat Jahan killingNine years after Ishrat Jahan was gunned down in an alleged shootout by Gujarat Police, the CBI Wednesday filed a charge sheet in a court here naming at least six policemen as accused.While stating that Ishrat, who lived in Thane, was not a terrorist as alleged by Gujarat Police, the CBI charge sheet named..... More
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