Police lodged an FIR on missing documents from the Union home ministry’s files related to the alleged extra-judicial killing of Ishrat Jahan, a Mumbai college girl suspected to be a terrorist and shot dead in 2004. The case has seen many twists and turns, one of them being the missing papers — five crucial documents related to preparation of a second affidavit in the Ishrat case. Read | Ishrat Jahan case: FIR filed over missing filesThe Centre filed two affidavits in 2009, when Congress leader Chidambaram was home minister, following a petition seeking a probe into the shooting. Read | IAS officer probing Ishrat Jahan missing papers has a new job waiting for himBut the panel’s fairness came under question as Prasad has been accused of tutoring a witness. Also read | The Ishrat Jahan encounter case, explained

Source: Hindustan Times September 25, 2016 17:37 UTC