New Delhi: Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Thursday said to punish the guilty in Ishrat Jahan case. Shinde said it just a day after CBI’s submission to the court in Ahmedabad.
Shinde’s statement bears significance as home ministry officials have been maintaining that there was not enough evidence against Intelligence Bureau special director Rajendra Kumar and three others in the alleged fake encounter case.
On Wednesday, CBI held that 19-year-old Ishrat Jahan was killed in a “fake” encounter in 2004 and charged seven police officers in the case, saying it was a joint operation between Gujarat police and the subsidiary Intelligence Bureau.
The home ministry has been maintaining that CBI does not have enough evidence to prosecute IB officer Kumar in the alleged fake encounter case and it was unlikely to give sanction to CBI to prosecute the senior IPS officer. However, CBI has not sought the sanction from the home ministry, which is the cadre controlling authority of IPS officers.
Bureau Report
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