The petition of Gopinath Pillai, father of one of the four persons killed in 2004 police encounter, was transferred to the judge hearing the Ishrat Jahan case, by the Gujarat High Court on Thursday.
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.
A division bench of the Gujarat high court on Thursday issued notices to the Central Bureau of Investigation and the state government in the 2004 Ishrat Jahan encounter case.The court began hearing the case after the Supreme Court on April 19 asked it to constitute a division bench, while acting on the petitions filed by Gopinath Pillai, father of Javed Ghulam Sheikh alias Pranesh Kumar Pillai, who was one of the three persons killed along with Ishrat.
Father of one of the persons killed in a police encounter in 2004 along with Ishrat Jahan on Friday filed an application in the Gujarat High Court demanding that hearing on his pending plea seeking Central Bureau of Investigation inquiry in the case begin at the earliest.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notices to the Gujarat government and Chief Minister Narender Modi -- on a petition seeking an inquiry by the Central Bureau of Investigation into an alleged fake encounter -- in which a youth was killed in 2004.The petition filed by Kerala-based M R Gopinath Pillai alleged that his son Pranesh Kumar Pillai alias Javed Shaikh was gunned down by the Gujarat police for having links with terrorist groups.
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