Nearly 15 years after Ishrat Jahan was killed in an alleged fake encounter, a special CBI court discharged retired police officers DG Vanzara and NK Amin on Thursday from the case. The court allowed discharge applications, which the duo filed after the state government refused to grant sanction to CBI to prosecute them. This was the last case against me, and today, I have been freed of all charges," said Vanzara. Special CBI court judge JK Pandya said that since the government did not sanction prosecution of the two ex-cops, their discharge applications were allowed, and proceedings against them would be dropped in the case. She also contended that the state government was not the appropriate authority to refuse sanction to prosecute the two officers.

Source: dna May 03, 2019 00:00 UTC