News for 'Gopinatha Pillai'

'Innocent or guilty, my son Pranesh is dead'

'Innocent or guilty, my son Pranesh is dead'

Rediff.com5 Jul 2013

'The very police who are supposed to protect us, gun down our children as if they were from an enemy country,' Gopinatha Pillai, father of Javed Ghulam Sheikh who was killed in the Ishrat Jahan case, tells A Ganesh Nadar

Fake encounter: Victim's father hails probe report

Fake encounter: Victim's father hails probe report

Rediff.com8 Sep 2009

Father of Javed Ghulam Sheikh alias Pranesh Kumar Pillai, one of the four persons allegedly killed in an encounter in Gujarat in 2004, on Tuesday hailed the judicial inquiry report that said they were victims of a 'fake encounter'."I always believed that the truth will be known one day," Javed's father Gopinatha Pillai told PTI from his home at Charaummood in Aalappuzha District, reacting to the findings of the investigation conducted by Magistrate S P Tamang.

'Headley's claim on Ishrat baseless'

'Headley's claim on Ishrat baseless'

Rediff.com7 Jul 2010

Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative David Headley's reported claim that Ishrat Jahan, killed in an encounter with police in Gujarat in 2004, was a suicide bomber of the terror outfit has been contested by the father of the man killed along with her.