New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is likely to file a status report on the alleged Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case on Wednesday. Sources have told CNN-IBN that the investigative agency will seek more time to file supplementary chargesheet in the case.
The controversial case has put the UPA government off guard. While, the UPA government had, so far, leveled allegations on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for Ishrat's death, the party has been a divided house, off late, after Lashkar-e-Toiba operative and 26/11 Mumbai attacks convict David Coleman Headley's interrogation report was shared with the government. According to the report, Headley had identified Ishrat as a member of the terror outfit's suicide squad.
Congress General Secretary and spokesperson Digvijaya Singh had asked the Home Ministry to set the record straight on whether Ishrat was involved in terror related activities as claimed by Headley.
The Home Ministry had submitted two contrasting affidavits on Ishrat's alleged terror links between 2009 and 2012. There is also confusion on a leaked portion of an NIA report submitted to the Home Ministry on whether Ishrat knew other alleged terrorists and their involvement in terror related activities.
On June 15, 2004 Ishrat Jahan and three others were killed in an encounter near Ahmedabad. Police claim they were members of the Pakistan-based LeT on a mission to kill Modi.
The encounter killings of four people Ishrat and three men - Pranesh Pillai (alias Javed Gulam Sheikh), Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar took place on an empty road stretch between Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar in Gujarat. On June 11, 2004, Ishrat left for Nashik with Javed. It's not known how she came to Gujarat on June 15
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