Today Former Gujarat police officers DG Vanzara and NK Amin were acquitted in Ishrat Jahan encounter case.
A special CBI court in Ahmedabad absolved controversial police officers Vanzara and Amin of all charges in the sensational Ishrat Jahan encounter after the Gujarat Government refused permission to prosecute them in the case saying that they performed duty, there was no need to prosecute them as required under section 197 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC).
Nineteen-year-old woman Ishrat Jahan from the Mumbra area near Mumbai and Javed Shaikh, alias Pranesh Pillai, Amjadali Akbarali Rana and Zeeshan Johar were killed in the allegedly fake encounter in 2004 on the outskirts of Ahmedabad.
Vanzara and Amin were happy to be freed by the court and interacted with media, both felt of getting just.
