As another Indian Penal Service officer lands behind bars in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, killing of the key witness in the episode is now set to haunt the Gujarat police.Tulsi Prajapati, Sheikh's friend and a witness in the encounter case, was gunned down in 2006."Eventually, it will have to be admitted that it was also a fake encounter," a senior official said.
More arrests are likely, Johri said in her report. She also said that the role of the Andhra Pradesh police was also being investigated and a report would also be submitted on the issue.
Thirteen Delhi policemen, accused of gunning down a notorious criminal in a staged shootout in 2002, were given clean chit on Thursday by a Delhi court which said they had acted in good faith in discharge of their duties.
The Gauhati high court on Tuesday asked the Assam government to file a detailed affidavit on the police encounters that have been taking place since the Bharatiya Janata Party returned to power in the state in May 2021.
It was a bad day for the Maoists in Andhra Pradesh when their two top leaders, including the most wanted central committee member Shakamuri Appa Rao and South Telangana coordinator Solipeta Kondal Reddy, killed by the state police in two different incidents.
Former Mumbai police officer Pradeep Sharma has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Bombay high court verdict convicting and sentencing him to life imprisonment in a 2006 fake encounter case.
Umesh Pal's family thanked Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and the police.
A senior Rajasthan police officer, evading arrest in the Dara Singh fake encounter case, on Wednesday surrendered before a special Central Bureau of Investigation court.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has found that Ishrat Jahan and her accomplices were killed in cold blood so that the Gujarat Police could show a major hit.
A brief statement by Srinagar-based defence spokesperson Col Rajesh Kalia said there was no system of cash rewards for Army personnel for any acts in combat situations or otherwise in the line of duty.
The three policemen have been charged with abduction, illegal confinement and murder and are likely to be produced before the court for remand.
An Indian Police Services officer accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case on Thursday sought bail on grounds of parity that one of the key accused in the case was granted bail by the Gujarat high court recently.
'Whether it's paneer for vegetarians or chicken and fish for non-vegetarians, the overall intake of protein is not sufficient.'
Ganderbal SSP Hansraj Parihar and DSP Bahadur Ram have been arrested for their involvement in the fake encounters.
The Supreme Court on Friday said that a Central Bureau of Investigation probe has established that the killing of top Maoist leader Cherukuri Rajkumar and a journalist, by Andhra Pradesh Police in July 2010, was not a fake encounter.
The Gujarat high court on Friday granted bail to former Gujarat home minister and close aide of Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Amit Shah, in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, after three months of imprisonment.
'I want to ask the entire nation and the opposition. Can a Chief Minister, Prime Minister, or any leader run the country from jail?'
The police claim businessman Ashok Sao paid Umesh Yadav Rs 400,000 to kill Gopal Khemka last Friday.
Gujarat's junior Home Minister Amit Shah, who is close to Chief Minister Narendra Modi, on Thursday did not show up before Central Bureau of Investigation for questioning in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case but said he will appear on Friday after the agency sent a second summon during the day.
The Central Bureau of Investigation, which is probing the 2004 fake encounter case of Isharat Jahan and three others, on Tuesday arrested suspended Indian Penal Service officer D G Vanzara from Sabarmati Central Jail in Ahmedabad. The arrest was made after permission was granted by a special CBI court earlier in the day, sources said.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the monitoring authority headed by its former judge to look into the killings in alleged fake encounters between 2002 to 2006 in Gujarat and file its report within three months.
'It flows through families, caste groups, and local WhatsApp communities where trust is personal.' 'Children are taught to defer to elders, so if a parent or uncle forwards something, you don't question it.'
Suspended Gujarat cadre IPS officer D G Vanzara, who has been behind bars for the past seven years in connection with fake encounter cases, retired on Saturday after 34 years of service.
The Apex Court will hear the matter on Friday.
The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to suspended Gujarat cadre IPS officer Rajkumar Pandian, who was arrested in connection with the alleged fake encounter killings of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kauserbi.
The court said it will pass its order after receiving a report from the Gujarat government whether it would be able to produce Kausar Bi, wife of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, who was branded as a Lashkar-e-Tayiba militant and killed in an encounter.
The Gujarat government objected to making the report public, contending that it was not clear whether the views expressed were unilateral or whether Justice Bedi had shared them with other members of the monitoring committee.
IPS officer D G Vanzara, who is behind the bars in connection with fake encounter cases, will retire on Saturday. After serving for 34 years, the suspended officer who is in jail for the last seven years will retire. He is lodged in Sabarmati Central Prison.
At the outset, his counsel submitted before Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma that he wishes to withdraw the petition and wants to file it before the Punjab and Haryana high court.
"This time Dinesh had gone to Ahmedabad to get his statement recorded in the case and it was unfortunate that he had been arrested without prior intimation to us", Kataria said.
'Parents only realise the trap in which their children fell after losing money. Some exploit children for sexual acts such as pornography and the narcotics trade.'
The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested two police officers who were part of as many squads that took part in the alleged fake encounter of teenage girl Ishrat Jahan and three others in 2004 in Gujarat.
The chargesheet was filed against Inspectors Munal Singh, H Devendra Singh, head constables Thounaojam Herojit Singh, Oinam Keshor Singh, constables W Binoy Kumar Singh, Mohammad Imran Khan, Makan Kanchung Chothi, havaldar Jagat Singh and rifleman Ngangom Toyaima Singh, a CBI statement said.
Killings in police encounters affect the credibility of rule of law and the administration of criminal justice system, the Supreme Court had said in a 2014 judgment while issuing a slew of guidelines to be followed in matters of investigating police encounters which have led to death or grievous injury.
The number of policemen injured in them was 1,443 and 13 were killed, the data showed.
The Supreme Court on Friday called for an investigation into the alleged 1528 judicial killings by the army and other security forces in Manipur.
Vanzara, a former "encounter specialist", was acquitted in the alleged fake encounter case of Sohrabuddin Shaikh and Tulsiram Prajapati and discharged in the Ishrat Jahan alleged fake encounter case.
This is the third chargesheet in the infamous fake encounters racket, which came to light earlier this year.
The Jammu and Kashmir assembly unanimously passed a resolution on Monday expressing shock and anguish over the terrorist attack in Pahalgam and resolved to fight resolutely to defeat the nefarious designs to disturb communal harmony and hinder progress.
'The moment they fall foul of the party in power, they become unsafe. Then nobody can guarantee their safety.'
