Fake encounter case: No govt nod needed to prosecute cops: Ishrat Jahan’s mother

Ahmedabad | Wednesday | 10th April, 2019

Summary:

She also said that the state government “seems to be protecting and shielding the two accused officers”. Judge J K Pandya adjourned the hearing to April 16 when Vanzara and Amin would put forward their arguments. The CBI had approached the Gujarat government for sanction on directions of the special court last October. Also read | Ishrat Jahan case: Gujarat won’t let us prosecute Vanzara and Amin, CBI tells court“Regardless of what the state government says, framing of charges is a judicial exercise and not an executive one. It shows that he was present at the site of the staged encounter, and that he participated in the murder of Ishrat and others”..