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This is an archive article published on September 9, 2009
Gujarat HC stays Tamang report on Ishrat encounter
The Gujarat High Court stayed metropolitan magistrate S P Tamang's report which had described as 'fake' the police encounter in which four people were killed.
Written by Agencies
Ahmedabad | September 9, 2009 08:16 PM IST
1 min readThe Gujarat High Court stayed metropolitan magistrate S P Tamang’s report which had described as ‘fake’ the police encounter in which alleged terror group operative Ishrat Jahan and three others were killed.
Acting on a a Gujarat government petition seeking a stay on the report,Justice Kalpesh Javheri said the observations made in the report were beyond the jurisdiction of the judicial magistrate.
Justice Javheri also ordered the appropriate authority of the High Court to look into the actions of magistrate Tamang and take necessary action.
The next hearing of the case is on September 30. However,the court has given liberty to Ishrat’s mother to produce the report before the three-member committee constituted by the High Court last month to investigate the encounter.
It further said the report can be considered as evidence by the committee.
The four persons,claimed to have been killed by the police in an encounter on the outskirts of the city on June 15,2004 were Ishrat,Javed Ghulam Sheikh alias Pranesh Kumar Pillai,Amjad Ali alias Rajkumar Akbar Ali Rana and Jisan Johar Abdul Gani.
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